Coffee Klatch

There’s another version of the Hate That Frog game. This one requires three clicks (and no shotguns). The first is for the Power, the second click is for the Height, and the third is for the Spin. If you get him to go 5,000 or more of whatever unit they’re measuring in, he goes “over the edge.” I got him there on my second try!!

Here’s another site for when you have too much time on your hands. Or at least when you want to challenge your knowledge of trivia.

It’s the Trivia Challenge! It’s run by the International High IQ Society and is easy (in principle) to play. Every question has five multiple-choice answers to choose from. Each question also has 20 seconds for you to answer it (no bonuses for speed, just a time limit). You keep playing until you get three wrong in a row. Questions vary on their difficulty, but you get more points for answering the tougher ones correctly.

They also track the high scores for the day, week, month, and year, so you have a chance to have your name go down in history. At least for the year.
[tags]quizzes, trivia[/tags]

Tonight I found a website where you can make your own movie. It’s nothing huge or really like a “real” movie, but it can be fun. That’s probably why it’s called MyFunMovies.com! You choose the background, the characters, how they walk on, etc. Then you fill in the blanks with what they say and select the background music. You can even edit it afterwards, add an additional scene, and send it to friends! (actually send a link to your friends)

Pretty cool! But if you want to do it right, you’d better have something clever prepared for the characters to say before you make the movie. Hmmmm…. just like REAL films!!

Here’s another fun little time waster I StumbledUpon today. It’s called Hate That Frog. Just shoot the frog and get it to go as far as you can. Simple, right? My highest score was 91, but I can consistently get above 60 now.

Another game on the i-am-bored website is called Grow 3 (because it’s the third version of the Grow game). This one’s simple. You just drag things to the “grow” spot on the sphere. The trick is to do them in the right order (and figure out the right order) to make each item max out its level. The thing you don’t know is how the different items affect each other (which they do). Give it try. My high score is 11,600.

To help get you in the mood for Fall, Halloween, and October, here’s a fun little website: http://www.cubpack81.com/images/carve_pumpkin.swf

Remember, even though they don’t have a “print” or “save” function, you can still print the page you create via your web browser. And if you want to save a copy, you can always hit “Print Screen” to copy the picture to your clipboard and then paste it in any image editor or even MS Word.

[tags]pumpkin, jack-o-lantern, halloween, fall[/tags]

For those of you who enjoyed my other recent “Fun Online Games,” here’s my latest little addiction: Drag the Dot! I got all the way to Level 16, which takes you to the boss (which I DID beat, by the way)! Some of this is hard, but it’s all doable.

http://www.gamershood.com/flashgames/1999

Current music: Bolero, by Stanley Jordan

[tags]games, online[/tags]

Okay, fine. Here are a couple more games that I found that are pretty cool. The first is challenging and fun and is called Kick_Off. It’s a soccer (or European Football) goal shootout contest. You take turns kicking and defending. Try it out: http://allthingsflash.com/files/games/Kick_Off.swf

The second is Mini-Golf.

Here are some fun online games that I’ve come across lately. When you find yourself with some extra time on your hands, you may want to check out some of these.

• http://allthingsflash.com/files/games/curveball.swf
• http://allthingsflash.com/links/files/games/Canyon_Glider.swf
• http://www.miniclip.com/games/ping-pong/en/
• http://www.transience.com.au/el/elgameo.html
• http://allthingsflash.com/links/files/games/Animal_Bridge.swf
• http://www.miniclip.com/games/stackopolis/en/
• http://www.nata2.info/humor/flash/bowman.swf
• http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu/~lee/deanimator.html

[tags]online games[/tags]

Quite a while ago I got hooked on notpron for a short time. It’s a website that hosts a riddle-based game. It’s not a point-and-click kind of thing. Instead, you usually use what you can find out on the screen to come up with the next website, change the name before the .html and you get to the next page, and thus the next level. These things can get really hard and complicated (notpron calls itself “the hardest riddle available on the Internet”), so most of them have a Forum for people to ask questions, share hints, etc.

Yesterday a friend introduced me to weffriddles. Same kind of thing, but with a different flavor because it was designed by a different person. I first visited the website late yesterday afternoon and as of now I’m up to level 21. It can be addicting because you feel you’ve just about got the answer, so you’ll figure it out and then do “just one more level.”
For most of these, it helps to keep another tab or window open to Google or Wikipedia or something, so you can look up information when you need it. Sometimes it’s a play on words or something built right into the page you’re looking at. Other times it requires specific information, so a search engine helps.

If you want to give any of these a try, BE PATIENT! The first few levels are semi-easy, so you can figure out how the game works and what it takes to succeed. Some people literally spend months trying to solve the entire puzzle. (Unless they don’t have a life, it’s usually a few minutes here, half an hour there; that kind of thing.) Remember, if you need help, visit the Forum. You may even want to keep THAT open in another tab or window also.

If nothing else, these riddle games will improve your critical thinking and problem solving skills. Plus, they’re FUN!

Enjoy!

Thanks to WikiHow, I’ve got another cool thing to share–How to Make a Cloud in a Bottle. It’s very easy and only requires a clear plastic 2-liter bottle, some warm water, and a match!

1. Fill a bottle with just enough warm water to cover the bottom.
2. Light a match and let it burn for a few seconds.
3. Blow the match out and immediately place the head of the match into the bottle. Let the smoke from the match fill the bottle. After a few seconds, the smoke will seem to disappear.
4. Screw the cap onto the bottle. Try not to let any of the smoke or air escape.
5. Squeeze the sides of the bottle hard 6 or 7 times. Wait a few seconds, and squeeze the bottle again, but hold the squeeze for a few seconds and quickly release the squeeze.
6. Look at the formation of fog in the bottle and there’s your very own cloud!

That’s the process in a nutshell, but be sure to visit the site (http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Cloud-in-a-Bottle) so you can read how it works and tips on making it more successful.