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when you have to go through every single combination to get something to work, it's no longer a puzzle, it's a chore.

meh, gameplay-wise these things are always pretty much trial and error, even if there's a post-hoc explanation. why did i have to use the knife to cut away the plug socket? pretty sure the screwdriver would have done the job.

now stuck with the magnet (or lack of).

I dunno. I've found most of the solutions in this one pretty sensible so far.

There was one a while back where you had to go outside and look at roman numerals on a windmill that I *never* would've finished without a walkthrough.

finding that section of the floorboard was a little hit and miss, and then what you had to do with it didn't make a whole load of sense.

is the box with a tube in some sort of uv light?

anyway i gave up, the panel locks were doing my head in.

uv ligt is what i thought, but pretty sure i;ve shone it on everything so far.

i don't know how to use the lock but i have the code

ok got it

I found a walkthrough for this, was sad to find I was actually almost done. Willing to give hints. Does ILX have any sort of spoiler tags?

I quit on level 15 I think. a pink level.

what am I talking about, wrong thread. was looking for flash games

http://astrange.ithinksw.net/sa/1233164065872.jpg

I never would've gotten the third key to open the lockbox if I hadn't looked it up. I am not smart enough.

continuing from yesterday's game i suddenly find myself with a washer. where did that come from?

ok it's not a washer.

y'know i reckon i could have opened the door with the penknife.

How does it work, snoball?

― Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 20:10 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

You need to adjust the sliders so that the radio makes five high tones in a row. But it's not "one slider controls one tone", because the slider settings interact with each other. So you'll get the first tone to be high, adjust the sliders for the second, but then the first tone will be low again.

snoball, you need sound on for that to be less chorish.
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― The controls are janky (Will M.), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 23:50 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yah I know - but there seems to be no apparent logical relationship between slider settings and tones produced. So the only option is to either find a walkthrough that explains what that logical relationship is (which defeats the point of the puzzle in the first place) or laboriously go through 5 ^ 7 slider combinations. I mean, if I wanted a small box that makes noises that I can't control, I'll buy an eff-ing Buddha Box...

And the more I think about it, the more these "room escape" games seem to be a nth degree extension of the "you can destroy a tank with a bazooka that somehow manages to fold up in your pocket whenever you're using another weapon, but you can't jump over a waist high picket fence" FPS tropes.

But it's not "one slider controls one tone", because the slider settings interact with each other. So you'll get the first tone to be high, adjust the sliders for the second, but then the first tone will be low again.]

?? didn't work like that for me at all. one position = high tone, for each slider. that's it.

Ah, just tried it again today and it's working properly.

Even with cheats, getting the third key was almost more than my wee brain could handle.

Sorry I didn't get the walkhthrough to you when you asked-- I only got the email about an hour ago. :/

http://www.kongregate.com/games/IcyLime/multitask

haha i wuz totally useless at that

I got 84.

TextTwist is a simple, fun little word game that will overtake the brains of certain kinds of people (word obsessives) until they can't stop playing it even with the computer off.

Okay, seriously is Evony really making the kind of money that allows them to be on every website everywhere?

Circle the Cat

Building Blaster

It's a combo of reversion to three (playing with blocks) and to thirteen (playing with fireworks).

I finally won at Circle the Cat and now I feel bad for the kitteh.

Okay, seriously is Evony really making the kind of money that allows them to be on every website everywhere?

Yah, I was wondering the same thing. I saw an ad on talkingpointsmemo the other day and wondered what the hell was going on.

On the plus side, the boob girl is gradually getting more attractive.

By this time next year the winner of America's Top Model will win the spot of boob girl in the next Evony webvertisement.

that building blaster was sorta fun, but a little miffed on one of the levels which I completely destroyed yellow blocks to the point of complete obliteration and left the pink tower standing but it still wouldn't give me a success.

You've got to blow the blocks further away to score more points.

ah i see. i really should read instructions shouldn't i

im hopelessly stuck in level 39 ;_(

I'm stuck on level 40!

you can blow the right building to the right without touching the middle building. use the 2 & 3 charges.

i cant seem to take down the giant lollipop stop sign in level 49. maybe its a red herring. however, i hesitate to use the word 'hopelessly' again.

I am such a sucker for tower defense games! Gemcraft!

The Onion AV Club has a new feature on free and cheap games:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/august-24-2009,32052/

but play this game before reading its review, which spoils it: http://www.raitendo.com/games/you-only-live-once

TextTwist + Tetris = must pop words

Ludum Dare, a 48hr game writing compo. this time's theme 'Caverns'

so here are 144(!) cave based games to download and vote on
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-15/?action=preview

http://www.adamatomic.com/canabalt
for wider screens: http://www.adamatomic.com/canabalt/mega/

2025's the best i've gotten so far

make that 3100-ish

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By "online" I don't necessarily mean games that you play online with other people (although, I'm not ruling that out).

In retrospect, one of my dumbest lines ever, and that's STIFF competition.

sorry guys, moment of doubt, moment of doubt

It took many runs, but finally got 3243m on Canabalt.

That thing that falls from the sky gets me every single time.

3715!

(What killed me was a low corridor. I had already hit jump, and once you hit that wall, it's straight down.)

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