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Monday, June 7, 2010, at 10:33 pm. Tagged , , , . Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

16 Comments

  1. djp wrote:

    Question: Is this nonsense, or am I going to have to spend more time than I already have trying to decipher this?

    Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 12:23 am | Permalink
  2. stephen lavelle wrote:

    There’s not much to it – if you’ve gotten past the first level you get the idea.

    Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 12:31 am | Permalink
  3. Jasper wrote:

    I think the window could be a little wider, it’s fairly brutal as is. Nicely addictive though.

    Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 9:26 am | Permalink
  4. Eric the Rexman wrote:

    It’s a game of mimicking the gibberish.

    Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 3:04 am | Permalink
  5. hangar wrote:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus_or_Minus_Two

    Friday, June 11, 2010 at 2:02 am | Permalink
  6. stephen lavelle wrote:

    I was not aware of this number. Interesting!

    Friday, June 11, 2010 at 8:31 am | Permalink
  7. Niklas wrote:

    I like how the game gave 0 explanation yet was easily understandible, ncie music too

    Friday, June 11, 2010 at 3:57 pm | Permalink
  8. ButtercupSaiyan wrote:

    Amused me for only a few seconds, regrettably. Sometimes, I like your throwaway games.

    … The concept is there, I just suck at it.

    Friday, June 11, 2010 at 8:11 pm | Permalink
  9. Bennett wrote:

    I wonder if this is what it’s like to be a captive parrot.

    You could do an interesting expanded version of this idea, where people walk by your cage, and they become interested if you mimic them successfully, but they become bored and walk away if you don’t.

    Sunday, June 13, 2010 at 11:55 am | Permalink
  10. stephen lavelle wrote:

    Heh – I quite like that idea.

    Sunday, June 13, 2010 at 12:28 pm | Permalink
  11. Bennett wrote:

    Another bird game I would like to play/male: a game where you try to selectively breed crows for intelligence, but as they get more intelligent they start to beg to be let out of their cages.

    Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 6:34 pm | Permalink
  12. Bennett wrote:

    (make, not male)

    Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 6:35 pm | Permalink
  13. Johnny wrote:

    I’m SO doing that, Bennett. Expect a comment with a link to it soon.

    Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at 10:17 pm | Permalink
  14. vivlo wrote:

    couldn’t satisfyingly play this game cause i’m on a french keyboard (azerty) and it does write on qwerty. If i have a word like “qwaz” it becomes really complicated…

    Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 12:18 am | Permalink
  15. stephen lavelle wrote:

    My heart goes out to you, Vivlo.

    Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 12:53 am | Permalink
  16. Colonel Sanders wrote:

    I keep getting a game over when I try to type the 3rd letter.

    Friday, August 17, 2012 at 4:41 pm | Permalink