Friday Timewaster

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Fri Jun 16, 2017 12:52 pm

LordMortis wrote:3384. What determines the number and location of the next starting block?

It's random and it should only be a 2 or a 4.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Jun 16, 2017 1:25 pm

2nd try = 11384... And too much time wasted...

Pretty close. 1024, 256, 64, 32, 3 16s, 2 8s, 3 4s, 4 2s. I made a two or three big blunders at the end where it was very unforgiving and the last pull gave me a 4 instead of 2 just to be spiteful.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Jun 16, 2017 3:52 pm

16224 = 1024, 512, 256, 128, 2 64, 16, 3 8, 3 4, 3 2.

So close, though an accidental board shake eventually sent my 256 all the way across the board from my 512, so maybe not that close...

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Sat Jun 17, 2017 4:48 pm

18.9k so far. I'll get the damned 2048.

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tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Sun Jun 18, 2017 1:18 am

Phew

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Jun 25, 2017 12:30 am

Here is a fun little thing . You draw something and this place makes it into a color painting. So it can be horrible to great depending on your drawing skill

More info if you can read the language

Be warned...some drawings turn out to be nightmares.

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 11:00 am

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... t.DATAWING

Datawing. Free game, no adverts, no permissions. Great gameplay, great visuals. Think Asteroids crossed with Tron crossed with a racing game. You powerslide your triangle off walls to reach goals, defeat enemies etc. Lots of fun.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 11:02 am

Friday timewasters are best when they are browser games, not ones that make me have to surreptitiously use my phone. Also, it's Thursday.

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 11:05 am

It's Friday somewhere... Is that how time works?

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 11:09 am

From Central Australia to the date line, but that doesn't help me get through today, now does it?

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 3:46 pm

Let your mind go

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 8:12 pm

Back to back meetings certainly sped things along.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Wed Dec 13, 2017 12:11 pm

We need a holiday edition. My last day for the year is Friday and all my projects are wrapped up. I'm looking to avoid dreadfully boring paperwork. What have you got?

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Wed Dec 13, 2017 12:29 pm

stessier wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2017 12:11 pm We need a holiday edition. My last day for the year is Friday and all my projects are wrapped up. I'm looking to avoid dreadfully boring paperwork. What have you got?

https://www.kongregate.com/games/Effing ... worms-xmas

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Fri Jun 21, 2019 10:24 am

An excellent timewaster: https://case.law/trends/. Search for the frequency of any word across all American caselaw dating back to 1800. You can even pretend it's educational!

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Fri Aug 23, 2019 9:17 am

GauGAN, an online tool that turns crude sketches into dramatic landscapes. Here's one I just did in about a minute:

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Fri Aug 23, 2019 10:28 am

AWS260 wrote: Fri Jun 21, 2019 10:24 am An excellent timewaster: https://case.law/trends/. Search for the frequency of any word across all American caselaw dating back to 1800. You can even pretend it's educational!

"Motherfucker" doesn't appear until 1969, but climbs steadily thereafter.

Sudy · Post by **Sudy** » Sun Aug 25, 2019 12:13 am

Either I'm using it wrong, Klingon has meanings I'm unfamiliar with, or Star Trek has been around since the 1860s....

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sun Aug 25, 2019 12:46 am

They’re actually Mormon.

Sudy · Post by **Sudy** » Sun Aug 25, 2019 1:23 am

Fascinating.... So these were the human-looking ones. They invaded the Earth in the early 1800s and founded a religion.

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Wed Nov 13, 2019 6:49 pm

AWS260 wrote: Tue Nov 12, 2019 6:16 pm Delightful.

LordMortis wrote: Wed Nov 13, 2019 3:52 pm This should be cross posted in the Friday time waster thread.

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:25 pm

Wasting time on a Friday.

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Sat Jun 27, 2020 12:19 pm

stessier wrote:
AWS260 wrote:Cookie Clicker.
Up to 13.975 billion cookies per second and have baked 1.43 quadrillion overall. I've had 228 Golden cookies, clicked 62,509 times for a total of 710.102 trillion handmade.

Some people are still playing.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Jun 27, 2020 12:48 pm

Cookie Clicker

Damnit!

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Sat Dec 19, 2020 3:32 pm

Mob nickname generator.

Donald "Peanuts" Trump

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Wed Jan 05, 2022 1:12 am

It's not Friday, but your new daily timewaster is Wordle:

https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Wed Jan 05, 2022 4:01 am

AWS260 wrote: Wed Jan 05, 2022 1:12 am It's not Friday, but your new daily timewaster is Wordle:

https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

Cool!

Wordle 200 4/6

Sudy · Post by **Sudy** » Wed Jan 05, 2022 4:20 am

New puzzle every 24 hours??

That's not a timewaster!

El Guapo · Post by **El Guapo** » Wed Jan 05, 2022 2:25 pm

Well, got the first one on my fifth guess.

Hyena · Post by **Hyena** » Wed Jan 05, 2022 2:41 pm

Got it in four. Lucky guess, for sure.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Wed Jan 05, 2022 2:52 pm

I wonder if you have to guess words - might be able to be more successful if the first guess is STRLN or maybe STRLE.

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Wed Jan 05, 2022 3:05 pm

stessier wrote: Wed Jan 05, 2022 2:52 pm I wonder if you have to guess words - might be able to be more successful if the first guess is STRLN or maybe STRLE.

I don't think it cares if they are valid words.

I got the one yesterday in 3. And I'm not sure that my first guess was a word. Though now I can't recall. So maybe it was.

Edit: I just pulled up the site, and it still had the one from yesterday. And I did use a word. But I still don't get the feeling that it cares. It feels a lot more like a version of Mastermind.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Wed Jan 05, 2022 3:06 pm

It does require actual words.

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Wed Jan 05, 2022 3:07 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: Wed Jan 05, 2022 3:06 pm It does require actual words.

Well then. I stand corrected. Thanks.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Wed Jan 05, 2022 3:08 pm

You do. I tried to go the easy route and it threw out my non words. I found myself ill prepared after not going in with a plan but still got it in 4 tries. Not sure how difficult it will be once you put together a plan of attack, but I also notice you can change the difficulty by forcing

Any revealed hints must be used in subsequent guesses

Which I definitely did not do and I was stumping myself coming up with words without five and then ten letters before playing around known letter placements.

Edit:BAM!

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Wed Jan 05, 2022 3:19 pm

Got it in 4, might have been 3 if I was paying attention and actually used the clues properly.

Anonymous Bosch · Post by **Anonymous Bosch** » Wed Jan 05, 2022 5:49 pm

AWS260 wrote: Wed Jan 05, 2022 1:12 am It's not Friday, but your new daily timewaster is Wordle:

https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

Seems reminiscent of the Mastermind board game of old:

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Wed Jan 05, 2022 6:30 pm

https://wearethemutants.com/2017/03/27/ ... astermind/

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Wed Jan 05, 2022 6:32 pm

Wordle 200 3/6

Pretty pleased with getting it right after two very mediocre guesses.

It's like Mastermind, but the use of words adds an interesting wrinkle to the decision space. You have many more "colors" (letters) in play, but the potential combinations are constrained because they have to form real words.

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Wed Jan 05, 2022 6:38 pm

I just got it on my 2nd guess.