Fun Little Time-Waster

[SeanF]

Planarity (http://home.cwru.edu/~jnt5/Planarity/).

Don't let the ease of the first round fool you. :)

[zebo-the-fat]

:D :D :D

[A Thousand Pardons]

Finished level ten, no end in sight :)

[Charlie in Dayton]

This game has officially been added to the Department of Health and Human Services list of addictive somethingorothers...

[The Supreme Canuck]

I had to stop on level 4. If I didn't, I knew I'd still be doing it in three hours...

[Roy Batty]

I too, stopped after level 4 for same reason .. fiendish though! 8)

[hippietrekx]

Wow... Level 15 was hard. Mom told me to stop playing.

It was a good waste of an afternoon! :D

--hippie

[mickal555]

I'm up to five so far....

[Sock Munkey]

Ooo, I started playing that last week. Made it to level 13 before I got sick of the lag. When they fix the lag, shrink the dots, and let you zoom out I'll give it another go.

[Ithildin]

haha so good! ive spent about 20min now, on lvl 7 but my brain is overheating from looking at dots O.o

i got two friends addicted too :D

great game!

[mickal555]

Took me 8 mins to do 6...

up to 7 now...

[mickal555]

wow- 38mins for level 7....

[mickal555]

level 10







ARHGGHWGHWGTHUMPgrgre

[Swift]

The fellow who did this is a student at CWRU in Cleveland and this story made the front page of the Cleveland Plain Dealer this morning.
On-line version of story (http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/business/1121938339222850.xml?bxbiz&coll=2)

[Gullible Jones]

Wow... Level 15 was hard. Mom told me to stop playing.

How many hours were you playing for? :o

[hippietrekx]

Wow... Level 15 was hard. Mom told me to stop playing.

How many hours were you playing for? :o

...uh...

four

What? It got addicting! I'm not going to play until I can save my progress like the guys says may come in the future... I mean, it took me 1 hour 24 minutes alone to do 15. I was starting 16 and mom told me to stop playing and do something productive. So I visited BABB again. :lol:

--hippie

[Gullible Jones]

And Marylin vos Savant calls herself smart. :P

[Sock puppet]

Finished 15 last night. Took nearly an hour. BTW, they now have a save function. And you can play it offline, although I don't know if the creators intended that.

[Stregone]

Here's another time waster I found.
http://www.pya.cc/pyaimg/pimg.php?imgid=14192

[hippietrekx]

Thanks for telling me aobut hte save function, puppet...

I have to get back to where I was though. Mom tried to play, but she didn't understand the objective.

She also said that she flunked geometry in high school... I guess that game wouldn't be her kind of time waster, then...

--hippie

[Sock Munkey]

Level 17 I rule! :D

[Frog march]

there must be some kind of rule.

how would this process be automated i wonder.

[farmerjumperdon]

You know, if it weren't for the issues of size and scale, I'd take this further. The problem after level 8 is that there are just too many dots and not enough space to manuever and see what is going on. You waste a lot of time just clicking on dots to see the connections. I guess what I'm saying is it isn't the number of connections, it's the not being able to see them. It becomes more a matter of trial and error than being able to see the patterns in the connection. Did level 9 but it took too long (19:02) to get any points. I ended up with 2344 points after level 8. I'm going to assume there'd be so much poking around at any level past these levels that I won't get any points.

He needs to get the dots down to at least half their size, and allow it to be sized to full screen. Even at that, at 17" screen size, I'd of course eventually have the same problem. Just a matter of time.