Mindless Arcade Friday: The Grading Game
by MacKenzie VanEngelenhoven
Get through the Friday doldrums with this diversion into the exciting world of the essay-correcting graduate student.
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by MacKenzie VanEngelenhoven
Get through the Friday doldrums with this diversion into the exciting world of the essay-correcting graduate student.
by Eva Wolchover
Sometimes, you can't help who you love, even if they try to eat your brains.
by Eva Wolchover
For this week's Mindless Arcade Friday, a game about fonts. And cheese.
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by Eva Wolchover
For this week's Mindless Arcade Friday, we play a game with sparkles and diamonds and sparkles!
by Peter Sagal
For this week's Mindless Arcade Friday, Peter plays "George Plimpton's Video Falconry."
by Eva Wolchover
Suspend what you know to be true about the distant past and help a hapless little dinosaur flee extinction.
by Eva Wolchover
Zombies are like people. They will do anything for a delicious snack. Even fall off a cliff.
by Eva Wolchover
For this week's Mindless Arcade Friday: not so much a game as a series of decisions posed by a crazy person with some programming skills and access to a computer.
by Serri Graslie
Ever wondered if you'd be a good at teaching kindergarten, or juggling juggling balls? Test your multitasking skills here.
by Nic Park
For this week's Mindless Arcade Friday, we play "Carrot Track," a ridiculously easy game pitting a rabbit against adorable puppies.
by Eva Wolchover
A game that allows you to topple towers of shapes, in space!
by Eva Wolchover
Good on you if you beat this Fox v. Duck game, but maybe think about using your talents do do something productive!
by Ian Chillag
For this week's Mindless Arcade Friday, we play a Japanese puzzle game in which you dismantle a cheeseburger.
by Peter Sagal
Every choice matters in this game where you get once chance to save the world. And every choice will probably be the wrong one.