Oofta, my friends. Spent a little over two hours tonight putting together a console table. Now it houses my coloring and art supplies and I’ve largely reclaimed my dining table but for the pencils and book I’m currently using. Still much to do, but I’m going to squeeze in an art walk on Saturday with friends (and hopefully get some good photos of Halloween decorations for you), and perhaps check out the props/costume sale at Shakespeare Theatre Company on Sunday. I also need to get a new phone as mine is about seven years old and I’m starting to run into compatibility issues with apps. Galaxy S8, I’ve loved you well.
In the meantime, I’m trying very hard to resist buying any Halloween or spooktastic games. I’m a member of Big Fish Games after taking about 10 years off from casual gaming, and they’re having a sale where you can buy bundles of games. Of course they’ve bundled three of my favorite series: Puppet Show, Redemption Cemetery, and Dark Tales, which is based on Edgar Allan Poe’s works. Three games for 15 bucks—and I have no time to play any, boo hoo! I recently told a friend that if I won the lottery, I would have to play all of the series I used to play, in order, including catching up on all the insallments I’ve missed. It would take me a year if I worked at it like a full-time job, heh.
Ooh, this one looks good. A creepy carnival!
It reminds me of some of my favorite casual games of all time, Madam Fate and Fate’s Carnival. They’re old but they’re surreal and the puzzles are some of the weirdest I’ve ever seen in a game. They’re difficult, too. Most of the puzzles in casual games are intuitive to some degree. Not these. Some of these are just off the wall. Imagine opening a screen and this is what you see:
That’s it. You have no idea what the objective is or where to start. You basically have to just click on something, see if it does anything, and go from there.
At any rate, I may have to carve out some time on Sunday night or Monday to play a creepy casual game. Cracking the puzzles makes me feel smart—which brings us to today’s candy: Smarties! I used to love those. I’d devour them and then bounce off the walls because they’re all sugar. Really, it’s a wonder my pancreas didn’t explode and I still have any teeth.
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