She Who Will Be Obeyed!: Web Games I like to play

July 20, 2006

Web Games I like to play

Sometimes, I get rather frustrated and need something to take my mind off of things. There are several Web Games that can become rather addicting.

Bookworm is very satisfying. I love to see the points add up. However, I think that it is a little too easy. I have managed to get more than 3 million points before losing, and I'm really not that good.

Weboggle is fun to play if you just have a few minutes, because the games are three minutes long. However, a lot of words in the WEBoggle dictionary are in no other dictionary on earth - so it is a little bogus.

And then there is Scribble. A 'cooperative' web-based scrabble game. I enjoy playing it, however, the regulars there want everyone to play it exactly the way they tell you to - so they can get the big point words - not that it matters, since there is absolutly no tracking of who gets what score - it's the total score for each game that seems to be of import.

If you go to Scribble, ignore the nasty comments in the chat and stay away from the message boards. I am called a 'troll' because I'm not as smart as they are, I guess - or really, I am as smart, but they don't like it if anyone makes a mistake. The game has expert boards for those people, and I do not try to play the expert boards, but they follow me around the regular scribble boards and can be quite rude. In fact, they have labelled me a troll, so know, when I do play there, I go by troll/beth. It's a challenging, non-competitive game, but beware - they are not nice to newcomers!!!

I should really quit playing these games. They are incredible time wasters, and I coule probably get the house clean in a day if I would stop going to them.

Posted by Beth at July 20, 2006 8:42 AM

Comments

Bookworm is addictive. Thanks

Posted by: Trias at July 20, 2006 11:13 AM

And I, of course, am now tempted to play a *real* troll, but that would be unfair to people like you, who just want to play.

Sigh. TANJ.

Posted by: John of Argghhh! at July 20, 2006 3:55 PM

Bookworm is nowhere near as addicting as Literati. I shouldn't even tell you about it, because you can really lose hours in it. It's fun because you can play with other live human beings. It's bad because you can play with other live human beings--many of whom will accuse you of "cheating" if you play a significantly better game than them, though.

It becomes, in addition to being a fun game, an interesting look at human competitive psyche.

Posted by: April at July 21, 2006 2:12 PM