bane of my existence: yahoo games

I have an unhealthy addiction to puzzle games. This applies to all puzzle games, but there are subcategories of puzzle games for which I have particularly strong affections, and which cause me the sharpest pains of longing. Paings especially pointy-feeling when I look up at 4:00AM and realize that I’ve spent most of the time I was suppose to spend sleeping in a near catatonic state of nonetheless genius-level puzzle-busting.

Recently, I started revisiting yahoo games (games.yahoo.com) because I am addled constantly by thoughts of chess and go. Yahoo allows you to play both of these games against opponents who are supposedly “ranked”, but who are somehow always better than you regardless of statistical winnings. I spent a lot of time on yahoo games back when I first discovered it, and thought it was a really cool place to hang out and waste time.

Boy has that not changed.

I found in my recent forrays that yahoo decided to host popcap games‘ genius creation: bookworm. Bookworm is somewhere between boggle and tetris. Thus bridging two of my favorite puzzle game categories: tetris varriations, and word games.

(This post was inspired by irish-girl’s mention of boggle in her recent post.)

Not only does yahoo have some other neat puzzle games, but they actually have a whole sub-game-category of word games… some of which are puzzle-like in nature. I can’t help but be envious of the folks at yahoo games who get to sit around and think of new puzzle games.

2 Replies to “bane of my existence: yahoo games”

  1. Actually, it is more of a dual alarm, and therein lies most of the problem. Whenever Laura and I try to set both alarms, the first person to get up usually turns off the whole shibang just out of habbit. So if she gets up before me, I’m usually late. ;)

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