waider

I've been playing a flash-based Sudoku game for the last several months: Fingertime Sudoku. It's got the best interface I've seen for feeding numbers to the grid, and generally throws me puzzles I can finish inside four minutes with the occasional 10-12 minute stinker. Anyway, this past week it stopped working for me. I get the grid, the UI, but no prefilled numbers. Tried it from the office laptop, it's fine, but from the home laptop, it's useless. From either home laptop (both run identical configs). Even with cache flushed and proxy disabled. WTF?

I can't say enough good things about Slime Forest Adventure. It's a Japanese Learning Game that's easy to play and seems to be working - for the first time since I quit taking Japanese lessons (a college elective for a few terms) I seem to be actually learning again. And it doesn't come with the sense of duty or work that I normally get when I'm trying to (re)study Japanese through books.

LotR board game, and not any sort of official one, either. This is insanely cool, and I think I'll see if I can make myself up a board & cards and spring it on my friends.