The Buckingham Blog - Games

Game: Get the Milk!

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 04:50:00 -0400

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

Googlewhack

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:22:00 -0400

"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I'm not going to put an example on here as it will probably be out of date by tomorrow morning so have a look at the official site www.googlewhack.com.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

Happy Halloween - Cat Bowling

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:30:00 -0400

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

The Right Brain vs Left Brain test

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:51:00 -0400

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:

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS	RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic detail oriented facts rule words and language present and past math and science can comprehend knowing acknowledges order/pattern perception knows object name reality based forms strategies practical safe	uses feeling "big picture" oriented imagination rules symbols and images present and future philosophy & religion can "get it" (i.e. meaning) believes appreciates spatial perception knows object function fantasy based presents possibilities impetuous risk taking

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

What can you see?

James

Getting into the Christmas Spirit

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:00:00 -0400

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

Hooray a new game!!!

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:09:00 -0400

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

Game of the Month - Globz

Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:57:00 -0400

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

Another addictive game

Sun, 06 Feb 2005 18:18:00 -0400

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

Bye Bye Froggies

Sat, 08 Jan 2005 18:08:00 -0400

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

Addictive Santa Game!

Wed, 15 Dec 2004 15:34:00 -0400

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

Clever Froogle - Racing Frogs!

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:48:00 -0400

I thought it was about time I put something on here that wasn't about my bump! So the other obsession in my life just now is my virtual frog!

I've had my frog now for a few weeks (age:165 in frog days!) and am sooo impressed with how clever she is and how well she is doing!! I have bought her a helicopter and a landing pad (along with all the other things like computer, mobile phone and scooter) for one of the ponds, and am about to buy her a second landing pad.

Having a happy Froogle seems to work, as she has won every race for over 2 weeks now, winning me lots of gold and medals. She has 23 medals now, gaining 2 in the Superfrogs race on Sunday!!

She is 615th out of 119200 frogs in her region, and 38th of 7900 in her age catagory, which is amazing!! Just another few things to get her and she'll be winning the superfrogs race!!

Sad? Me? No way.......

Julie.xx

Racing Frogs

Sat, 13 Nov 2004 01:14:00 -0400

I kind of promised myself when we started this website that I wouldn't turn it into a techy site. Something turn up a couple of weeks ago though that Julie found and I really wanted to tell everyone about it.

When you get a chance have a go of www.racingfrogs.org. This little site is pure genius and whoever came up with this idea must be earning a nice little fortune.

The basic idea is to create your own racing frog. You're then put into a league with 23 other frogs and every night they race against each other in one of four lakes. I won't ruin it for you but the idea is to train your frog up on a daily basis and the more attention you spend to it the better it gets.

Julie and me have been doing it for a couple of weeks now and Julie in particular, has been doing very well. She's just bought her frog, Froogle, a helicopter rental :) Ok for some!!

I'll give you one little tip to get you started. Buy a VIP subscription ASAP!!! It doesn't cost that much and you can get a fairly good advantage over the other frogs by using the options within it.

Let us know how you get on and if you've got any hints/tips let us know using the comments section.

James