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By: i-bystander

i-bystander — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:00:57 +0000

Thanks to more free games! I’ll try out EnLight and SHEALD as well.

It’s great to see to enthusiastic gamers talk about some of the more interesting games out there!

By: spmwinkel

spmwinkel — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:20:07 +0000

I did, and indeed it makes it more difficult. But I have this strategy where I don’t always look for openings, but sometimes following a black line (border between paths) easily narrows the playing field down to half. In other words, sometimes you can easily see that you can’t go into the left half of the maze since that doesn’t allow you to go back, and then you’re left with a 12*25 maze again. But even with a 25X25 maze it’s a lot easier to solve than an average sudoku or a play of Earth Day.

By: dgoldring

dgoldring — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:09:08 +0000

SPM, have you tried playing the maze on 25×25 mode? It is much more difficult.

I also can’t believe I have been doing The Arcade for a year. It is fun to scour the web and find some really unique freeware games.

Doug

By: spmwinkel

spmwinkel — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:02:36 +0000

lol

In the meantime I removed the maze again, it’s nice to play it a couple of times but it won’t keep you up until late at night.

Japan Crossword is very nice, I just wish that you could pick more sizes. I understand that it would become harder to display, though.

And I’ve played the first couple of levels of EnLight, I look at them as “tutorial levels” since they all have a fairly basic way to get them solved, and I hope/expect the future levels to be more challenging.

By the way, you’ve been doing the monthly arcade for quite some time already, it seems like you just started a couple of months ago but it’s been much longer!

By: dgoldring

dgoldring — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:27:49 +0000

Good picks, SPM. It will be extremely difficult to choose just five. And, as you know, I completely agree with you on Tilelander. I had to remove it from my device because it was so addictive.

Doug

By: spmwinkel

spmwinkel — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:38:27 +0000

(of course Allure Xonix doesn’t compare to TileLander, I still play TileLander pretty often!)

By: spmwinkel

spmwinkel — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:35:58 +0000

I’m going to take EnLight and SHEALD Maze this time!

As for my favourite games.. I didn’t install a lot of the games, but I think that every Windows device – including WM – should have MineSweeper, so I’d say All Mobile Mines (from July)

I’m also a fan of Japan Crosswords on paper so I can’t believe I never installed this (from May)

I haven’t tried MooreGames from April but I think that if it’s good, it should be included since you have an entire pack with just one installation. (the .Net CF is a downside though).

Also one of my favourite type of games is Xonix, and since TileLander isn’t free I can’t nominate that one – so I’ll go for Allure Xonix (March).

That’s a top 4, but I’m sure that you’ll receive more comments or have some favourites yourself (and we still got November!).