The Buckingham Blog

Not had a full game of this yet but this is so cool...
www.gettheglass.com/

This must have taken them ages to create as well!

James

"A what" I hear some of your say?!?

Last night we watched a comedy show called "Dave Gorman's GoogleWhack Adventure" . The theme of the program surrounds a game called Googlewhacks and Dave Gorman's obession with it. It was actually quite funny but more in the way he tells his story rather than what he's saying.

So what's a Googlewhack and how do you play it?

Simply put, using Google you have to get it to return a single result using two words.

There are some rules though:

1) You're not allowed to submit the words in quote marks.
2) The words have to appear in Google's Dictionary - http://www.answers.com. Rather than having to keep popping back and forth to here the way you know it's correct is by making sure that the words are underlined and linking to the dictionary in the blue bar at the top of the results page.
3) Also in that bar it should say "Results 1 - 1"
4) Finally, Google has to show the two words in the excerpt of the page in the results. If it's in a list like a dictionary, glossary, thesaurus etc. then it doesn't count.

Not so easy now is it 

I'm not going to put an example on here as it will probably be out of date by tomorrow morning so have a look at the official site www.googlewhack.com. Have a go and if you do manage to get one then you submit it to them. Oh and don't forget to put it on here so we can look as well .

James

Not done a game for a while now but I thought since it's Halloween that I'd keep with the spirit of things (do you see what I did there ?) and blog one for everyone.

Cat Bowling

Enjoy and do let us know your scores.

   James

This is from an article one of the guys at work just sent me.

Is the woman going clockwise or anti-clockwise?

If you're seeing her spin anti-clockwise then you use the left side of your brain more, if you see it spinning clockwise you use the right.

Extracted from the article this means the following:

I'm definately right sided and Julie, although stronger on her left ,seems to see both. 

What can you see?

James

Well that's Halloween and Guy Fawkes away for another year so what's next?? Christmas, hooray!!!

We've not had a new game on the blog for a while so to get everyone in the fesitive mood here's one that I was sent this morning. If you hate sprouts then you'll love this :)

Attack of the Sprouts

James

At last, I've finally found a game worthy of putting on the blog!!

I've been nosing around for something to pass my time over lunch for sometime but nothing has really caught my attention, until now!!!

I came across this little puzzler last week - Atomica

I've not been taking note of my score but so far I've manage to get a ranking of Professor (I think it's over 20000 points you get it).

As usual, give it a go and let us know how you get on.

Cheers,
James

Not a game as such but a website full of them.

I've been visiting Globz for a couple of years now and think it's a great little site to pass 5 minutes during your lunch break.

A couple of favourites are -

The Dancer
Viral Pursuit
and if you can find someone else to play with give Trackwars a go :)

James

Games seems to be quite popular on here so we've found another one to get your teeth into.

It's called Gold Strike and can be found at: http://www.flasharcade.com/game.php?goldstrike&1. We've both been playing it for a couple of weeks now and it's VERY addictive (would you expect anything else from us :) ).

Julie's managed to get to Level 9 and I've got to Level 7 once or twice. We've not been watching the scores but let us know how you get on and we'll see if we can beat it ;)

James

It's a sad day in the Buckingham household today as we say good bye to two dear...dear friends, Georgie and Froogle. Our Racing Frogs.

With the help of Julie and me, we've seen them both grow over the past three months from tiny tadpole to lean-mean elite hopping machines. Never willing to take anything less than first place in their daily races, both have dominated their froggie groups and leagues since October last year.

After 240 frog days (3 days for every human day) both can now enjoy a happy retirement on the sunny banks of Lily Pond drinking their Frog Juice and eating their Chocolate bugs. Have fun guys, we'll miss you!!!

James

I've been playing this really addictive Santa Sling Shot game all morning!!

Have a go!

http://www.learn4good.com/games/action/sling_shot_santa.htm

My best one is 310.5....beat that!

Julie.xx