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Press the Button. You Know You Want To.



Some Internet sites are designed to be useful.

Some are not.

Today in Web Watch, we will focus on a few websites that definitely fall into the latter category: websites that ask you to do just one thing – push a button.

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Flash Fun: Gemcraft Chapter Zero



GEMCRAFT CHAPTER 0: Gem of Eternity is the latest edition in the “tower defense” game genre from Game in a Bottle.  If you like tower defense games but were bored by the redundant nature of them, you’ll want to check out Gemcraft.

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Flash Fun: Rock Band Simulator



One thing that ROCK BAND and GUITAR HERO are missing is the ability to control all the other aspects of band life:

  • Picking who is in your band (well, that’s dependent on your friends, and what if all your friends suck at Guitar Hero?)
  • Recording albums or releasing singles
  • Dealing with the recording studio
  • Working the press, managing your band’s hype
  • Are you a corporate sellout?

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How To Make a Photomosaic from a YouTube Video



You’ve seen Photomosaics before, right?  That’s where you take hundreds or thousands of pictures and then combine them into one giant picture of something else? 

You know, like this Tigger jigsaw puzzle.  The image is made of thousands upon thousands of animated cells, combined to make a single image of Tigger.

Well, here’s a website that lets you do the same sort of thing, but using YouTube videos instead. (Thanks, Alain!)

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If Your Life Were a Movie, What Scene is “Now”?



WHERE ARE YOU IN THE MOVIE? is a web gadget that calculates where you are in your current lifespan, then applies that figure to one of several different movies in order to show you what scene in the film represents your “now”.

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Flash Fun: Achievement Unlocked



Looking to kill about ten minutes of free time?

Why not challenge your friends and neighbors to beat your best time at ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED

All you have to do is move your elephant through 100 different tasks on the maze-like screen. 

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Flash Fun: Hex Empire



hexempireHEX EMPIRE is a Risk-like strategy game, where the object is to destroy your three computer opponents and take over their capital cities.

Unlike RISK, each map is randomly generated, which tends to keep the game fresh.  At the beginning of the game, you select which of the four capitals you want to defend.  Your capital, and every other city under your power, will automatically generate new armies each turn.

Each turn, you can move up to five army units.  You can move a unit up to two spaces away from their current location (either to an empty space or to initiate a fight by moving onto an enemy-occupied position), you can combine units into a larger single unit, or you can move units onto or off of a boat if you would like to attack by sea.

Each unit can grow up to 99 strength. There is also a secondary number associated with each unit: courage.  You will win a fight if your strength is higher than your opponents’, but if the opponents have more courage than your units have, then you may find yourself in trouble.

The gameplay is fairly straightforward, but there is a little strategy involved with how to best use your five moves each turn.  You’ll often find yourself with a bounty of 99-sized units sitting in the back of your defense area, but not enough moves to get them where they can be useful in a fight.

Still, if you’re looking for a few minutes of diversion, it’s a good implementation of a turn-based strategy game.  Each game can take up to 20 minutes or so to play.

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Flash Fun: DISINFECT THE CORE



disinfectcoreDISINFECT THE CORE is a quick little brain teaser/game that should keep you occupied for a few minutes over your lunch hour.

Your opponent is the red “virus” that has infected the computer’s core.  You are the green “antivirus” trying to prevent the red virus from taking over the 300+ spaces on the game board.

Each turn, all you have to do is click on one of your arrows.  The arrow will rotate clockwise 90 degrees, changing its connection from one dot to the next.  You can only click on arrows of your own color (neutral or opponent arrows won’t move for you).  Every connection you make has the potential of expanding your green influence across the game board – but remember, red is doing the same thing with its arrows.

If you run out of green arrows to click on, or if the gameboard turns completely red, then you have lost.

Strategy?  Make sure you always have an arrow or two pointed 90 degrees away from the red infection.  That way, you won’t waste a turn or two merely rotating an arrow into position.

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Flash Fun: Totem Destroyer 2



Totem Destroyer 2
Totem Destroyer 2

TOTEM DESTROYER 2 is a Flash puzzler that asks you to destroy different types of blocks in such a way that the golden idol will land on the final black block.

Some blocks are normal, some explode things around them, while others want to follow their own laws of physics. 

The nice thing about this game is that it resets each level for you automatically, so you don’t have to continually go back to the level menu to select your starting place.  And if your idol starts to fall the wrong way, you can just press R to instantly reset the level.  It’s a good game design for puzzles of this type, as it helps to eliminate that do-over frustration that some puzzles have.

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Flash Fun: KENKEN, the new puzzle craze



Now that you’ve finally figured out how to play SUDOKU puzzles, isn’t it about time to take your numbers grid skills to the next level?  Sure it is -
try KENKEN!
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kenken

A kenken puzzle is relatively straightforward.  Just like in sudoku, you have to fill in numbers in rows and columns without duplicates.   But there’s a catch….

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Flash Fun: Space Monkeys



SPACE MONKEYS

Because nothing is funnier than monkeys in space.

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Flash Fun: Miniature Golf and Rock-n-Roll Lemmings



There’s nothing better for taking a quick break during the day than a nice relaxing round of miniature golf.

Some think that miniputt online can be a worthy challenge.  Be sure to try the classic minigolf style found at ELECTROTANK.

While we’re talking about classic games, do you remember the addictive mid-90′s PC game LEMMINGS, where you had to get hundreds of mindless animals from point A to point B without killing them? If you liked that, you should give the BBC version of LEMMINGS, called ”ROADIES” a try.  In this variation, you need to get hundreds of mindless backstage rockers to their next gig in safety.

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Flash Fun: Five Finger Fillet



We all have a twisted, freaky side.  Here’s a website for you: 

All you have to do at Five Finger Fillet is tap your spacebar at the right time to drive the huge, shiny knife blade in between your victim’s – er, lucky friends’s – fingers.  Try to hit the table as many times as possible without slicing off anybody’s extremities.  Ouch.

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Flash Fun: The Bruce Lee Ultimate Movie Trailer Remixer



We’ve all seen those classic Bruce Lee movies, with all the thumping music, quick camera cuts, and superimposed text graphics. THE ULTIMATE BRUCE LEE MOVIE TRAILER REMIXER gives you a chance to create your own movie trailer loop using music, graphics, and video cuts recreated from those movies you loved watching late at night on TV.

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