Hi, Hoddlers! Guess who remembered to schedule this thing this morning? I feel so proud and accomplished.
One of the great joys of having a cell phone is the ability to fart around on it and play games while you’re waiting to do adulting things. I confess that my phone has been a great help while I’m waiting in doctors’ offices, or at the BMV, or for the red light to change (KIDDING KIDDING KIDDING). And I have a stable of small, daily web-based games that I have come to enjoy and play almost daily.
Yeah yeah yeah, we all know about Wordle and Connections, those are fun but hardly noteworthy. Here are a few of my go-to web games that I play on the daily. Add your favorites in the comments!
Are you a geography nerd? You might like this one. You’re given a blank globe with no country lines or cities, and are given 5 cities or landmarks daily that you need to try and find. You get one tap and get points for how close you are to the actual location. It’s harder than you think, but super fun! Try it out, it’s usually the first one I play.
If you’re tired of the usual games at New York Times, try Puzzmo. It’s a daily mish-mash of short daily tap to complete games, including crosswords, tile puzzles, chess, and word games. It’s a paid site so a few are behind a paywall, but there’s a bunch of free ones you can play daily.
Another Wordle offshoot, this one comes from the Office of Economic Complexity. You’re given a series of squares that indicate a country’s export commodities, and you need to figure out which country that is. It’s surprisingly challenging!
Want something a little outside the box? Fallen London is an alternate history, moody, text-based browser RPG set in a Lovecraftian, Gothic-Victorian underworld, where an alternate-history 19th centuryLondon was stolen by bats to a subterranean realm called the Neath. It’s a game you play over the course of YEARS, not days, and it has some pretty outstanding (and weird) writing. You can buy paid content and it unlocks some options, but you certainly don’t have to pay to play.
The idea is simple: you are given a photo, and you need to guess where it was taken on a map based on context clues in the photo. It’s a bit like GeoGuessr, but it’s static. And fun. And quite challenging.
What are your favorite web games to play on your phone? Put them in the comments.
Song of the Day: “Boiling Point” by The Soundcarriers
Here are your Tottenham links for the day.
Ange Postecoglou reflects on his time at Spurs, and that he still feels a strong connection to the club.
Troy Parrott, Ireland’s new darling, now carries his country’s hope of qualifying for this summer’s World Cup.
According to MARCA (lol), Cuti Romero has a clause in his contract to go to either Atletico Madrid or Real Madrid for £60m. (This is almost certainly fake)