Blackflip

It is find one's way to a conceptual cornucopia of cunningly contrived conundra. It to read the misleadingly brief instructions many times. It is Blackflip, a virtual puzzle, a plethora of puzzles, participatory, too, because you can make your own puzzles and leave notes on the ones you solve and stuff.

Start anywhere. Draw a continuous line through the tiles you want to flip so that the tiles in each row, when flipped, match. There is continuous music.

You can play all you want. There is continuous music. Of a space-time-continuum probing sort.

My space-time got tired of the music long before I got tired of the puzzles. Ah, the puzzles! Oh, the puzzles! I say to myself and now you. Such a simple premise. So well-presented. Sometimes so elegantly devious. So subtle. So many puzzles.

Blackflip is a tribute, the designers say, to Nintendo's game Polarium. That, in turn, explains everything.

Well, all right, it explains one thing - that the cross-over between game system and Internet definitely goes both ways. And what a welcome cross-over it can be.


via Ultimate Insult

from Bernie DeKoven, funsmith