Archive for January, 2007

GPokr – Texas Holdem Poker - Viewed 8,941 views times

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Johan over at Spontanus provides today’s game:
A couple of months ago I stumbled across the site gpokr. This site gives you the opportunity to play the game online. No strings attached.
You receive a fictional amount of money, which you can use to become rich, or use to make other people rich .
The [...]

SearchFrays Google Placement Game - Viewed 1,853 views times

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SearchFrays is a simple little game that presents you with a Web address and has you try to guess the shortest possible search phrase that will cause that address to show up in the first page of Google search listings.
It’s an interesting way to learn a little about the way the search engine works.

Mars Sucks - Viewed 3,894 views times

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Mars Sucks is a Google Earth based game. If you do not yet have Google Earth installed you can get it by installing the Google Pack from the link on the right.
Once you’ve got Google Earth installed, follow this link to open a dynamic KML file from DestinSharks.com
To Play the Game:
1. Read [...]

Google Maps Quiz - Viewed 2,456 views times

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The Google Maps Quiz is a game which presents you with an image of a topographical area. The object of the game is to then click on a world map where you believe the area is. The system then measures the distance between your guess and the actual spot.
The best I managed was [...]

Google Image Labeler - Viewed 3,516 views times

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Today’s entry comes in the form of a service which Google has turned into a game of sorts. This one comes complete with scoring and public recognition of your contribution to the service.
Google Image Labeler is a word association game in which you, and some unknown, random partner are paired up and shown identical [...]

Google Earth Flight Simulator - Viewed 8,246 views times

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Although it isn’t technically a game, Google Earth rocks! You can zoom in on almost any point on the planet to check out high quality satellite images.
But what’s better than that is that if you have a joystick you can use it to fly around just like you would a flight simulator.
Here’s [...]

Google Earthing - Viewed 1,085 views times

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Now here is a game that seems downright impossible to me! The GoogleEarthing folks post a zoomed in photo of a few houses or some other very small area and then you’re supposed to find it using Google Earth.
I think I’d rather try to find a needle in a giant haystack, but they’ve got [...]

Road Sign Math - Viewed 950 views times

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Road Sign Math is a site which offers a slightly “brainier” alternative to the classic Slug Bug driving game. The game has a comprehensive list of rules, but the basic premise is: people take photos of roadsigns that contain numbers which, when solved, will formulate an equation.
An example follows:

9+6=15
So next time you’re going on [...]

Brewster Jennings Protects America - Viewed 786 views times

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In the web-based Brewster Jennings Protects America game you race around the globe as a government agent trying to stop a deadly terror attack from taking place….
In this Google Maps game, you are a secret agent called into action. The game starts with a clue which directs you to some place on Earth [...]

Google Maps World War – EndGame - Viewed 2,079 views times

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EndGame, a Google Maps based war strategy game, allows up to 25 players to battle it out with the ultimate goal of complete world domination.
According to the site, “The object of this game is to take over all the countries on the map. All other online players are simultaneously trying to do the same thing.”
There [...]