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How to be Puzzled

Photo of the New York Times Building in midtown Manhattan with the word STRIKE over it in large red textThe New York Times Building photo by Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA - New York Times Building - Bottom Portion

The NYT Tech Guild is on strike, which means NYT Games (and Cooking) are behind the picket line. But never fear! Mefites needing their puzzle fix can find Wordle alternatives in this Ask Me thread and the secret word game Letroso, plus, for more fun, be sure to check out Catfishing (Wikipedia category guessing game) by Mefi's own Klipspringer, and Gisnep (quote guessing game) by Metafilter's own ironicsans.

11/05/24
by taz

daddy like a pretty baby

video game image of a scary white woman-monster with pitted face, raccoon like pale eyes black bobbed hair and white lipsThe Final Pam screenshot

Rhaomi posts about one of the funniest goddamn things ever published on the internet – McElroy brothers' Monster Factory vids, with beloved faves ... and new episodes!

10/28/24
by taz

Let's Play A Game!

Love word puzzles and looking for something new? Then please allow Horace Rumple to point you towards Gisnep, a new daily word puzzle by MeFi's own ironicsans!

FamilyFun Gaming

a close-up of a stylized, green eye surrounded by intricate, swirling patterns. The eye itself is vibrant green with detailed textures in the iris, resembling organic or fractal-like designs. Surrounding the eye are ornate, abstract shapes in shades of cream, teal, purple, and blue, adding a surreal and fantastical quality to the overall image. The background includes a mix of swirling patterns and color gradients that contribute to the otherworldly, psychedelic feel of the artwork.Gorogoa game artwork

derbyshire is looking for fun puzzle video games to play as a family.

08/18/24
by taz

"Cardboard Empire"

photo of a teetotum, an ivory device similar to a top, with a 6-sided die on a spindle for spinning.via theconversation.com, Teetotums were used in an era when dice were associated with vice. Museum Rotterdam/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Wobbuffet has a lovely, expansive post on the early history of geographical board games, with a special look at America's first board game, 1822's "The Travellers' Tour Through the United States" in which "whoever gets to New Orleans first, wins." A timeless goal, indeed!

08/10/24
by taz

The Surrealistic Post That Will Become Your Morning

Screenshot of an elevator from Riven.

Now this is what the internet was made for, wonderous geekery! Come enjoy the visual splendor of almost every elevator in the video game series that started with Myst. Shared by rivenwanderer, this post does such a good job of showing how the series was able to enthrall people in its various worlds!

Help mecran01 trashtalk his friends!

screen shot of a card layoutVirtual poker game at Puzzmo

mecran01 wants to know about your favorite online social puzzles.

06/01/24
by taz

All Fun and Games

Close-up photo showing the edge of a monopoly board with the race car playing piece on the Go To Jail square and a small red plastic house on an adjacent square

Nice weekly free thread discussing the games we play! Don't miss Wobbuffet's commentary about the history of parlor games from antiquity to the present, and how old games reveal themselves in modern equivalents.

01/23/24
by taz

How many words can you get?

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Go ahead and cancel your plans for the next few hours 'cause Kattullus has posted about an addictive game you can play. Best part is that each game only lasts 20 seconds!

Prompt. Type. 20 seconds passes. REPEAT!

Cracker Barrel

illustration showing huge neon text ENTER THE DEMOSCENE atop a futuristic cityimage via generationamiga.com

Z303 has crafted an amazing megapost on demoscene history, techniques, creations, social scene, and more.

12/12/23
by taz

small, fun, free

simple pixel art of a creature inside an enclosure containing nooks where blocks must goscreenshot of opening level of the game I Have No Mouth, And I Must Create Blocks On All Sides Of Me

"charming, handcrafted, fiendishly difficult puzzle games with a retro 8-bit feel": Lovingly Crafted Puzzle Games Since 2013, a passel of Puzzlescript, iOS and Android games to while away the hours, 8-bit at a time.

11/28/23
by taz

"Phrygian? I don't even know Ian!"

Screen capture of a title page showing the text Phrygian at the top, a background of musical notes, and in the foreground an anime character wielding a sword and an angry Pikachu

Sure, you probably know there are major and minor scales. But unless you're really into music theory you might not realize those scales come in a whole variety of flavors called "modes"... Goofy, threatening, mysterious, devastating, relaxing: Zargon X posted 8-Bit Music Theory's analysis videos that use game music to illustrate modes.

09/11/23
by taz

"Friday Flash Fun Forever"

Flashpoint logo in a red circle surrounded by two circular rows of small logos of flash-based games and software

Rhaomi posted a labor of love featuring the Flashpoint Archive preservation project with over 145,000 preserved Flash games, plus highlights, more emulators, more games, tips, background, new software and more. If you miss Flash Fridays, definitely *don't* miss this post!

07/17/23
by taz

"an implausible profusion of original tabletop games"

Internet lore tells us the story of Cheapass Games, founded by prolific gamemaker James Ernest in 1996 ... JHarris posts about Ernest's new (2020) Crab Fragment Labs, "offering an array of both pay-what-you-want-to-print and paid-for-physical products: card games, board games, quick-playing and easy-to-learn pub games, solitaire games and a wide assortment of the best of the old Cheapass Games in Cheapassic Park."

04/15/23
by taz

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