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Aesquire
Posted on Monday, December 02, 2019 - 01:08 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I've been trying out different games for phone and tablet on my Kindle Fire.

There's a lot of anger on the web about misleading ads for these games. Mostly when they advertise great graphics that just aren't there. I'm used to that from computer games in the past.

What gets me going is an ad that promises a "pick the right tool" game, where for example, the bathroom is flooding, and you choose between a hammer, a wrench, and a towel. But I've yet to see a game like that. I keep getting match 3 games, like Candy Crush.

Matchington Mansion, Clockmaker, etc. all have misleading ads. I even pushed through to level 112 on MM to see if you unlock the different types of play.

I don't hate match 3 games, and can tolerate watching ads to get more lives, depending on mood & schedule. But I don't WANT to play them. Rather play solitaire.

Does a "pick the tool" game actually exist?
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Ourdee
Posted on Monday, December 02, 2019 - 01:47 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I like playing "Reversi Free".
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Etennuly
Posted on Monday, December 02, 2019 - 02:27 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I frequently get pick the tool game advertisements popping up between games of solitary.

Someone actually wants to play that stuff?
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Ratbuell
Posted on Monday, December 02, 2019 - 09:55 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I've got techs here who are addicted to that damned Candy Crush crap.



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86129squids
Posted on Monday, December 02, 2019 - 11:48 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Ever try Rummikub? Nothing digital about it, totally addicting, but you'll need 1-3 opponents, flesh and blood next to you, around a table. Ideally with refreshments, you'll spend hours playing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rummikub
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Pwnzor
Posted on Monday, December 02, 2019 - 12:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Yeah, my Rummikub tiles are worn and battle scarred.
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86129squids
Posted on Monday, December 02, 2019 - 12:14 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Maybe we could bring a game with us to TWoS next time we all get together. That would be a LATE nite in the TWoS great room though, probably shouldn't play it before a long day's riding. Might be ideal the night before everyone departs.
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Ourdee
Posted on Monday, December 02, 2019 - 12:57 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I brought a game last time.
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Aesquire
Posted on Monday, December 02, 2019 - 03:28 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Fizbin!

I actually expected to get a bunch of game suggestions. Cool, keep 'am coming. ( apostrophe abuse! )

But no answer to the question. Is there actually a "pick a tool" game?

As to WHY I want it. I want to try it.

The match 3 games are pure time sucks, and moderately interesting, yet massively successful. Tried it, got bored, want different.

I've been eaten by a Grue and died of dysentery. I was ranked 12th on this planet in Mechwarrior 4, then realized how much sleep I lost playing the great teams from Kedena & Wiesbaden. & went cold Turkey on online multiplayer games.

I've got an Xbox, but only use it when a fellow addict comes over, as part of my socialization efforts to not be a hermit. Halo & Borderlands.

I enjoy the find the object games, but only so much, and tend to uninstall them when I get bored. Usually takes a few days.

So I keep getting ads for what seems to be an imaginary game, is fraud, and simply because I apparently cannot have it, I want it!

I seriously doubt it will take a week to get bored, but that's fine. I just want something to play in waiting rooms and keep me from writing rants on my book reader. : )
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Aesquire
Posted on Monday, December 02, 2019 - 03:28 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Like that one. ; )
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86129squids
Posted on Monday, December 02, 2019 - 05:08 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

" Cool, keep 'am coming. ( apostrophe abuse! )
"

A or E there? Methinks E, in which case you're basickally correctum.
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Aesquire
Posted on Monday, December 02, 2019 - 05:46 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

How the $%^# did autocorrect change 'em to 'am? What contraction IS that?

My fault for not proof reading, but dang.

My intent was to mock apostrophe abuse by not actually doing so and claiming I had. Fail.


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86129squids
Posted on Monday, December 02, 2019 - 11:09 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I really hate and distrust my phhonne. You'd like to think. That by now. This superior entity wood know, mebbe grok, where I'm going.

In all reality, we've come to realize that it doesn't get my accent. And, my honey's Dominican.
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Glitch
Posted on Tuesday, December 03, 2019 - 06:21 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

( apostrophe abuse! )

The Crux of the Biscuit is the Apostrophe
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86129squids
Posted on Tuesday, December 03, 2019 - 11:44 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish.
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Aesquire
Posted on Wednesday, December 04, 2019 - 12:53 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Has anyone actually played a stupid pick the tool game?

I'm getting my butt kicked in tower defense games while I await an answer. Oh. Crud. Fast tanks!
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