Your mind may already be on St. Patrick's Day tomorrow, with visions of green beer and red hair and Celtic music, but right now it's Friday, so this is Friday Flash Games.
Every Friday I present three or more games for you to play in your web browser using the Adobe Flash Player. I test each game — tough job — on both Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, and I'll include information about sound effects or music so that you can make decisions about volume levels before following the link.
With the opening paragraph, you might expect some Irish-themed games this week, but no. I'm going to give you a lot more than the minimum three, but I expect most of you to spend Friday night, all day Saturday, and most of Sunday drunk, and then Monday through Thursday recovering from the revelry, so it might be as wasted as you will be. Or you could be one of those who doesn't spend a holiday devoted to a fifth-century Christian missionary drinking as much beer as possible, which prompts me to ask, "Why not?"
Let me get this one out of the way right up front, and for the last time. You Don't Know Jack 2 has been released, and will apparently be released weekly. Along with the daily DisOrDats, this should be bookmarked and visited often. I won't remind you again; just go.
It's trivia with an attitude — not usually safe for kids, but always fun.
I tend to set the quality at "Medium" at the menu, because some of the questions require a fast response, and even some speedy PCs have a little trouble processing keystrokes quickly enough. There's a lot of music and sound.
Straight Dice isn't about orientation, but runs of numbers. Three in a row (2-3-4) is a "straight," and your goal is to increment dice until you line up straights of at least three dice. Only straights matter, so matching colors or three-of-a-kind won't help you. The tricks are twofold: First, all similarly-colored dice are linked, so clicking one blue die increments all blue dice by one. Second, you start the game with only ten clicks, so choose wisely.
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