Category: games

Anyone else playing Words With Friends (i.e. Scrabble) on their phones? I know I’m a bit late to the party but I’ve really gotten into it lately even though I’m not especially good at it. (That’s not false modesty–back in the day when N and I were young marrieds and we would play board games with his family I would literally break out in a sweat when it was my turn. But in my defense, YOU try playing board games with N and his brother.)

Anyway, while I get nervous playing these sorts of games in person I’m having fun playing on my phone. So far I’ve successfully cajoled N and my sister-in-law Mindy into playing with me but two games are not enough to feed my addiction! (BTW, it’s your turn, Minders.)

While I’d like more people to play with I don’t want to play with total strangers. So I thought I’d see if any of you want to play because we’re all friends here and tight like that. There are free apps for both Android and iPhone so if you’re interested download it (enabled push notifications to get notified when a move is made) and look me up: my login is TheNearestFuture.

Let the games begin!

N showed me this free online game, “Small Worlds” by David Shute last night. The graphics are rudimentary to say the least but the game play is pleasantly engrossing. In just a few seconds I became surprisingly attached to the plucky little red jumping bean as I guided him around the maze. If you have some time to kill it takes about 15-20 minutes to solve.

Last week N gave me some lovely gifts for my birthday. Books are always popular gifts at our house: N gave me a paperback set of the Sookie Stackhouse books which I’ve been meaning to read and also a couple of graphic novels that look really great. I’ll post about them as I read them.

But the big surprise was this:

My very own lime green Nintendo DS!
(Complete with a stylish carrying case!)

Before we had E I played video games fairly often. I liked the Final Fantasy games in particular. But post-E my free time is too precious to devote big chunks of it to playing games (but oddly enough not to watching movies and tv).

But while I seem to have lost the patience to tackle any 100-hour epic quests I’m become more interested in puzzle games (for you know, exercising the old noggin). They can be played for just 10 or 20 minutes at a time which is handy. N gave me a few of these puzzle games, Scribblenauts and Professor Layton and the Curious Village and both are really fun.

It was a very thoughtful gift because while it’s something I’ve been hankering after for a while, it’s also something that I could never justify buying for myself.

Yay for N!