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Why Quick Online Number Games Suit a Short Phone Break
The modern phone break is a strange little window. It might be five minutes in a coffee line, one stop on a commute, or the...
Most people who say they are bad at Tetris lose the same way. Around the fourth or fifth level the pieces speed up, a single hole appears near the bottom, and within a minute the stack is touching the ceiling. The game did not get unfair.
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The modern phone break is a strange little window. It might be five minutes in a coffee line, one stop on a commute, or the...
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A 15 by 15 nonogram has 225 cells, and a beginner usually fills about 30 of them with confidence before getting stuck and...
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On a test day last month I played a simple tile matching game for 30 minutes on a two year old phone and lost 6 percent of...
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You start a wave of Space Invaders facing 55 aliens in five rows of eleven, shuffling sideways at a slow, almost polite pace.
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Cribbage scares off beginners for one silly reason: the board.
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Casual players do not read reviews before they tap. They open an online game lobby, glance around for about a minute, and...
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