Jun 25, 2009
Help other readers waste time and maybe lose their jobs.
As long as I’m picking on employers, how about this bit of non-productive sabotage:
What’s your favorite, most addictive, free online game?
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Proverbs 18:9 comes to mind…
Ouch! Dave way to go and convict me with the word!
I was going to look up that verse… but then I looked up people’s free online games instead.
http://deepleap.org/
This might be your best title yet.
And for me the winner goes, hands-down, to Uniwar. Thankfully, it’s an iPhone game, so I’m not tempted to play it on the computer.
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I’m with you Jess, for better or worse.
There’s two Gemcraft games over at Kongregate that are great for a quick mental break.
But don’t tell me boss! ;)
Hmm… “me boss”? Apparently my fingers believe it’s “Talk Like A Pirate” Day.
totally was text twist. gosh, i was addicted to that game.
My family enjoyed playing that together so much that we bought the full desktop version!
Mafia Wars on Facebook. It was so bad I had to make myself uninstall the application.
Bejeweled.
Of all time, I think it would have to go to Dodge at One More Level.com (at least where I found it). You are a little spaceship and all these other ships come onto the screen and you have to dodge their tracking projectiles and lead the projectiles back into the enemies. It gets really intense and for some reason I can keep playing it.
Runescape… and fantasy football on yahoo, during the NFL season.
On my iPhone, my guilty pleasure of late has been… ahem… Sally’s Spa. Bought it for Rosanna, and when I tested it, I fell in love.
Linerider. Really fun if you like building rollercoasters.
DiceWars. Kind of like a fast-paced Risk.
XiaoXiao 6. Or whichever one plays like a substitute for Time Crisis (shoot em up)
RuneScape. Online RPG that plays like The Myth series from Bungie.
Desktop Tower Defense:
http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/Game.asp
“Protect your desktop from invaders by spending money on attacking pieces and building a maze for them to follow.”
Or anything by the creator of that game.
http://www.casualcollective.com/
Typing Maniac on Facebook.
I’m ranked Alien.
This is just plain mean, Abraham! I am exerting all the self-control I can muster just to keep myself from trying some of these.
I can’t play any type of game on the computer….family rules! :-)
I’m with Andrew. Desktop Tower Defense.
N.
http://www.addictinggames.com/ngame.html
Never really played online games, but I stumbled upon this one a few weeks ago. It’s hours of entertainment!
Bloons Tower of Defense 3
Dicewars . . . but I don’t play it at work . . . Prov. 18:9 and all . . .
I don’t work outside the home, but FarmTown on Facebook has me totally sucked in.
Dopewars and Yahoo Fantasy Sports!
I like TextTwist on Yahoo! Games. (games.yahoo.com) It makes my brain work while I choose not to!
It was a sad day when Hasbro gave Facebook a cease and desist order for Scrabulous.
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I used to be addicted to Ngame and Tower Defense (twice!) too.
Absolutely everything on http://www.sporcle.com
So addictive
This is so sad and yet so awesome.
The facebook game Bouncing Balls (the sound makes it sound totally addictive) and a zombie killing game http://www.ninjakiwi.com/Games/Action/SAS-Zombie-Assault.html
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another vote for desktop tower defense.
it is amazingly addictive and so satisfying when you beat it!
http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/Game3.asp
Used to play DiceWars while on the phone (and got my bos hooked).
Now, not much beyond Yahoo Fantasy Baseball.
“Boomshine” (Don’t remember what site it’s on… google it) and the facebook near-equivalent, “Chain Rxn”. Definitely have the sound on when you play if at all possible.
And to Jared, above: I agree that it was sad when Scrabulous was removed. Fortunately, though, there is actually a legit full-on Scrabble app now.
pogo.com/scrabble
also, toobz on iphone
http://games.asobrain.com
It’s a version of settlers of catan. It’s very addictive. I’ve slowed down a lot now, but I used to spend plenty of time there ensuring the de-evolution process of my brain.
Flight of the Hamsters
http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=21427
Bloons is also a great option.
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i’m generally not into online games . . . but i am a little bit obsessed with Word Challenge on facebook. (is anyone surprised?)
Snood
JT’s blocks – yahoo game
Desktop Tower Defense. Hands down.
Kongai is my game! It is so nerdy that it is awesome. Collect cards and fight.
I’m a stay-at-home mom now and I’m not an online game person. I used to play solitaire during long, national “conference” calls (the kinds you are required to attend and just listen as the CEO talks about stuff).
There. I said it.
Hey! Have you finished the move to a new host. I suppose you have if I’m commenting. Duh!
Mah Jang!!!
i’m sad cause the comments are showing up on this post :(
Mafia Wars,
when i first started playing i was highly addicted. Fortunately it wore off after about a month so its been a while since i was on it.
Do you think readers of a blog can draw any conclusions about a blogger’s spiritual health from the content of the postings?
(I’m just thinking that regular postings about stuff that concerns/interests/inspires/humours/challenges the blogger is brave – and maybe telling. No personal insult intended, btw!)
as an employee I maintain a healthy balance of no computer time at work (that coupled with the fact of lousy computers guarded with the office staff guaranteeing it)….
but during my at home down time, I spend a lot of time in Second Life hanging out with Reformed People, learning, chilling, playing around, watching video sermons from John Piper, John MacArthur and others….
Abraham…its been 10 days…withdrawal is setting in.
where did you go>