Web Watch usually has a good memory for things.
We may not remember names and faces very well, but we certainly remember places and all sorts of useless trivia (as you can well attest by reading any of the thousands of Web Watch articles we’ve written over the years).
So how does one exercise their memory in order to become good at remembering things?
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Web Watch has a number of friends who play the collectible card game MAGIC: THE GATHERING.
They get together every week or two to play, have a few beers, and enjoy each other’s company. We’ve tried playing MTG (as the nerds refer to it), but Web Watch just couldn’t get into it. We’ve played online card-based games, such as MONSTER MASTER, and for us they seem to be more fun online than in person — but then again, games like that have simpler rules than MTG would have, which ultimately makes MTG a more interesting game overall.
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Are a WORDS WITH FRIENDS junkie?
Do you have multiple games going at one time, and fantasize about playing the exact same word on all the boards at the same time?
Do you have all the LEGAL 2-LETTER WORDS memorized, regardless of whether you actually know the definitions of those words or not? Do you know the exact number of letters that are available in the baggie, or know the difference between REGULAR SCRABBLE RULES and TOURNAMENT SCRABBLE RULES?
Yeah, you’re a word game competitor, and you’re always looking for an edge. Something to really carry your gameplay to the next level, because you’re sick and tired of losing out on that Triple Word Score because you couldn’t come up with a more creative way to use that “P” in your rack.
Web Watch has something for you. We can help you win.
All all you have to do is one simple thing…
So what is the ULTIMATE SECRET TO WINNING “WORDS WITH FRIENDS”, Scrabble, or any other popular word game?
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What’s That From?: The Ultimate Quiz Book of Contemporary Movie Lines
Do you consider yourself an expert on films and movies?
Web Watch has seen a ton of them over the years, but we admit that our memory banks have gotten a little fuzzier with some of the more obscure films that we’ve had to sit through.
On the other hand, we can recite lines from SORORITY BABES AT THE SLIMEBALL BOWL-A-RAMA and PSYCHOS IN LOVE.
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Will Shortz Presents Simply Sinister Sudoku: 200 Hard Puzzles
If you enjoy working on Sudoku puzzles as much as Web Watch does, then this may be of interest to you.
First, let’s talk a little bit about what Sudoku is, for those Web Watch readers who may have been living under a rock for the past 10 years:
Sudoku is a puzzle that is rumored to have been created by a puzzle creator living in Indiana, seemingly around 1979. In 1984, it was published in a Japanese newspaper… and the rest, they say, is history. The puzzle typically is a 9×9 square, and the object is to put the numbers 1-9 into the boxes so each row, column and 3×3 sub-block contains all the 1-9 digits.
In other words, it’s a game that’s absolutely perfect of playing on an iPad or phone.
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So Web Watch is in the process of packing up some of our video game systems and putting them away. The PS2 and Xbox Classic are no longer needed, and don’t even get us started on the TurboGrafx or Sega Genesis that were also taking up precious shelf space.
We’ll leave the Wii and PS3 where they are as we still use those regularly, as we anxiously await the long-rumored Xbox 720 to come out to replace the Xbox 360.
So what does all this mean? We’re not the only ones with older gaming systems still hanging around and being used.
But what are they being used for? It’s not always what you think.
Continue reading "What PS3, Xbox360, and Wii owners really do with their systems"
Everybody swears.
Everybody may not use the same expletives when doing so, but everyone swears in some manner or other.
And a recent study published in the American Journal of Pain confirms exactly why people swear.
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If you’re a video game addict — and let’s face it, if you have at least two “sequel” games in your game library you probably qualify — then you may have sometimes used video games as a way to escape your mundane, humdrum life.
Because who wouldn’t want to be that guy in Grand Theft Auto who can just run around and carjack whatever he feels like sometimes? Drive around and run bad drivers off the road?
Yeah, feels kinda good, doesn’t it?
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Today, Web Watch will keep it easy on our readers by offering a little game:
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How well do you know your album covers?
Maybe not as well as you thought, especially if key components of said cover have been Photoshopped out, just like we’ve seen with the INVISIBLES game a few years ago – you remember that one, where people were digitally erased out of movie scenes and you had to guess what the film was?
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Karaoke can be a fun.
Karaoke can be even more fun when it’s made into a game.
KARAOKE REVOLUTION was just the start, but there’s no danger in singing with friends in your living room.
Then came DON’T FORGET THE LYRICS and THE SINGING BEE (both regular and country versions), and KARAOKE BATTLE USA. Sure, those games were fun… but again, where was the danger? The risk?
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Build a iPhone App in Less than an Hour
Have you ever wondered how much money an app developer makes for writing and selling an app via the Apple iTunes app store for the iPhone or iPad?
Maybe not as much money as you think.
Sure, there are tons of stories about the $10,000 a day that a fart app can make for its creators. But that’s not the norm.
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Here’s a fun game for you try try playing:
Can you IDENTIFY THE CANDY BAR FROM ITS CROSS-SECTION?
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When non-destructive, office pranks can be fun.
Filling up somebody’s cubical or office with inflated balloons? Fun. Filling up somebody’s cubical or office with Silly String? A little bit of a mess to clean-up, and usually left to the victim to do so on their own.
Web Watch has even covered an entire office’s items in tin foil and wrapping paper. Definitely time-consuming and an absolute waste of money, but entertaining. The best one we did was sheetrocking over the boss’s office door and painting the wall so it looked like the office was never there in the first place. Oh, we’re still laughing about that one.
But sometimes it’s nice to include others in your office shenanigans.
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Feeling Lucky? How to use Google for Fun!
Bored?
Looking for something fun to do?
Why not take a few minutes to poke around with Google?
(“Hey, Web Watch – we already know how to use Google,” you say. Of course you do. But here’s how to have FUN with Google search…)
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