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Mokito Donating Member (710 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-03 07:43 AM
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What's your most addictive game?
Lately I'm totally hung on Bookworm from www.popcap.com. I play it almost daily, sometimes up to 5 hours on a row, just searching for longest English words I can find. Extremely addictive!

So, what game got you hooked?

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rfranklin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-03 07:46 AM
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1. Scrabble online...
Hundreds and hundreds of games.
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rbnyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-03 12:50 PM
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17. Where do you play?
I used to belong to one place, but I have a stalker there.
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-03 07:50 AM
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2. Go to pogo.com
Every game imaginable there. And you can win cash prizes.
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Snellius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-03 07:52 AM
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3. A little computer game called DXBall. And it's free.
It's like one of those old Atari games. You can find it online. Version 1.09 is the best.
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displacedtexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-03 08:07 AM
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4. spider solitaire
spider solitaire is to solitaire as canasta is to gin rummy: multiple decks and same suit rules.
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shirlden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-03 08:34 AM
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6. I am in that spider's web.
Have to have my daily play time.

:kick:
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lindashaw Donating Member (921 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-03 08:12 AM
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5. Ultima Online -- I've played it for 6 years
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DeposeTheBoyKing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-03 08:42 AM
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7. Hexic and Alchemy
I play them in my sleep! ARRRRGGGGHHHH!
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-03 08:44 AM
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8. Free Cell
I did not believe what they said about being able to win every game so I set out to prove it. I am on game 2764 and I am beginning to belive they are right. I have to play a little every day and it was great on my palm pilot when I had to drive my kids around and wait in the car for them.
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MojoKrunch Donating Member (513 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-03 09:43 AM
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11. Free Cell is evil.
And I love it so.

I had a job once where to kill time I played regular old MS solataire, timed.
When I beat the game in 48 seconds I realized I needed to stop goofing off.
lol

Mojo
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Ratty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-03 01:24 PM
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20. I was so addicted to Free Cell once
It's lucky I still have a job. Haven't touched it in years though.
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mrbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-03 09:26 AM
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9. golf
with real clubs and balls.
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ikojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-03 09:39 AM
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10. I LOVE Bejeweled.
Those on ATT wireless can download it for free until 12/31!

REALLY addicting.
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MojoKrunch Donating Member (513 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-03 09:45 AM
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12. Neverwinter Nights, et al.
I was a huge AD&D fan back in my misspent youth and NWN is the closest thing to being there.
The best part is the fan modules.
I've played some absolutely *killer* remakes of old TSR mods as well as some amazingly creative originals.

Mojo
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elfin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-03 10:02 AM
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13. Bridge
and sometimes MacScrabble
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-03 10:02 AM
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14. Mah Jongg
Both in person and on the computer.
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-03 12:23 PM
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15. Bookworm is one of my faves too.
I like the games at popcap and pogo. :-)
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-03 12:30 PM
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16. Galactic Civilizations & SimCity 4 deluxe edition
The former has a bug (just don't letr the Alterians be a computer player) but otherwise it's great.

Haven't played simcity 4 yet, but it's gotten rave reviews and has a scenario where you can do things in the city you build (nice touch, Maxis!)
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Ratty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-03 01:15 PM
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18. Unreal Tournament
The single player is just so damn good. Great AI, great environments, great weapons, great mods. I play it almost every day for at least 20 minutes. In the morning before work, plopping down in my chair right after work. I never get tired of it.

There's a great mod for it called Monster Smash that has random monsters populating the map and gives you a few AI allies. Your job is to clear 'em all out to win the game. It's fun going up against 3 Titans in Lava Giant.

That game must have been on my computer, oh, what? 5 years now. It's not my FAVORITE game (that would be Thief) but it's really really addictive.
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ProudGerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-03 01:21 PM
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19. Project Gotham Racing 2
This game should NOT be sold over the counter. Hours simply disappear from your life when you boot this game up. Another good time waster is Battlefield 1942, absolutely great online FPS.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-03 02:59 PM
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23. how are the tracks?
I found the tracks in PGR1 to be too confining, there was never really any area to really open up. I understand the game was more about powersliding, but I gotta have the car pegged at least once per race :7
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Kamika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-03 01:58 PM
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21. Everquest
I played it for 3 years.. almost daily. Quit this July though.. since the game got worse and worse
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HamstersFromHell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-03 02:57 PM
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22. EQ
I played "Evercrack" from it's intial release and played for 2 1/2 years solid, way too many hours a night. Quit it for DAoC, since levelling and having to have HUGE masses of players in high level encounters were such a pain to organize.

DAoC was fun...nothing like one-shotting a caster from cover of stealth and managing to sneak away, but Mythic kept screwing with the game balance way too much. Nothing wrong with trying to level the playing field, but they listened way too much to the whiners too much. I left when assassins ruled the game and little could be done to stop them.

Took 6 months off, and I'm back on EQ, but not nearly as "devoted" as I was last time. I play for fun now rather then the levelling treadmill. I haven't even touched my old high level toons, and now just make new ones and play 'em to lvl 25 or so.
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