"Attractor" flash game

It's been a long time since I've added anything to this blog's flash games category.  Here's one that will waste some of your precious time.  There are no instructions at the site, so you have to intuit the maneuvers, but it's easy to explain.  Press the little blue thingies to attract the white thingies and press the yellow thingies to repel them, trying to steer the white thingies into the red hole.  There is no scoring system or timer or penalties. 

I can't embed the game; you will need to play at this link.  I would favor a mute button to help maintain your sanity.

If you are serious about playing Pac-Man...

... then you might benefit from reading GameInternals' analysis of strategy and tactics.

Each of the ghosts is programmed with an individual “personality”, a different algorithm it uses to determine its method of moving through the maze. Understanding how each ghost behaves is extremely important to be able to effectively avoid them...

The key to understanding ghost behavior is the concept of a target tile. The large majority of the time, each ghost has a specific tile that it is trying to reach, and its behavior revolves around trying to get to that tile from its current one. All of the ghosts use identical methods to travel towards their targets, but the different ghost personalities come about due to the individual way each ghost has of selecting its target tile...

One important implication of Pinky’s targeting method is that Pac-Man can often win a game of “chicken” with him. Since his target tile is set four tiles in front of Pac-Man, if Pac-Man heads directly towards him, Pinky’s target tile will actually be behind himself once they are less than four tiles apart. This will cause Pinky to choose to take any available turn-off in order to loop back around to his target. Because of this, it is a common strategy to momentarily “fake” back towards Pinky if he starts following closely. This will often send him off in an entirely different direction.

Lots of stuff like that at the link.

Flabby Physics

It's been a long time since I've added anything to the flash games category.  This one via Miss Cellania at Neatorama.  It's quite simple, only has about ten levels and should take you fewer than 10 minutes to complete.  There are other ones in the category with which you can waste your entire evening.

The image is static; I can't embed the game, which is at this link.

Colliderix flash game

Arguably the most "dangerous" part of TYWKIWDBI is the link in the right sidebar that takes you to the "flash games" category.  If the links haven't undergone linkrot, there should be 28 posts there that will take you to a wide variety of potentially very addictive games - many of them physics-based, logic-based, or math-based.

Colliderix is the newest addition.  The game presents you with green and red objects which will disappear when they come into contact with another object of the same color.  You generate movement by clicking on the wooden objects, which then disappear. 

The game is challenging, and frequently frustrating because success often depends on timing rather than strategy per se.   Fortunately there are video "tutorial" walkthroughs that will help you through the rough patches.

Here's the link.  Don't start this game late in the evening.

Here's some sand to play with...

Click on this link.  Directions are in the small box in the UL corner.  Several thousand user-submitted results are stored in the gallery (where the most recent submission is entitled TYWKIWDBI...)