Flash Frustration in One Dimension

September 21, 2008 5:26 PM

Z-Rox is a flash game based on determining what object is being shown in one dimension. Answers can be anything, letters, numbers, shapes, symbols, objects. All answers are in English, type the answers when you know what you're seeing. This game is hard, have fun!
posted by schyler523 (32 comments total)

I guess I was kinda taking the second and third dimensions for granted today.
posted by rxrfrx at 5:35 PM on September 21, 2008 [1 favorite]

Cool. Like an eye test for Flatlanders.
posted by Rhaomi at 5:35 PM on September 21, 2008 [1 favorite]

Well, Flatlanders that are being visited by incomprehensible beings from another dimension.
posted by Rhaomi at 5:40 PM on September 21, 2008

The letter 'k' was just picked up by a 3D apple and hurled into another dimension.
posted by munchingzombie at 6:09 PM on September 21, 2008

FYI, the answer to number 17 is not "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU, YOU STUPID PIECE OF SHIT?"
posted by beaucoupkevin at 6:18 PM on September 21, 2008 [5 favorites]

Also, "trapazoid" is not the correct spelling.
posted by cortex at 6:25 PM on September 21, 2008 [1 favorite]

Arg stuck on 34!
posted by These Premises Are Alarmed at 6:35 PM on September 21, 2008

Oh, ok.
posted by These Premises Are Alarmed at 6:37 PM on September 21, 2008

beaucoupkevin, rot13 this if you want to know the answer:

Nafjre gb chmmyr yriry friragrra vf gur ahzreny bar.
posted by UrineSoakedRube at 6:40 PM on September 21, 2008

Related, sort-of, but with one more dimension.
posted by endquote at 6:43 PM on September 21, 2008

Whoa, I was thinking about submitting this. I'm on level 60, the solution of which is not BODACIOUS TA-TAS.
posted by DU at 6:54 PM on September 21, 2008

Oh, you can TYPE "square". That helps.

It would also be better if you could see the solution after you solve it, just to confirm you were right.
posted by yhbc at 6:54 PM on September 21, 2008 [2 favorites]

Oh hooray, I wasn't irritated enough already.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 6:56 PM on September 21, 2008

(got 60, omgi'mawesome)
posted by DU at 6:58 PM on September 21, 2008

Now very stuck on 63.
posted by These Premises Are Alarmed at 7:00 PM on September 21, 2008

I got 63, but I still don't really get it. It's very stylized, at best.
posted by DU at 7:07 PM on September 21, 2008

started looking at the spoiler answers after level 50. recognizing letters I can do, playing 1d pictionary I stink at. still, it did steal my time and attention for 50 levels.
posted by jepler at 7:14 PM on September 21, 2008 [2 favorites]

197 is a real bitch
posted by b1tr0t at 7:27 PM on September 21, 2008

I can see the preloader, but then all I get is a blank black screen and that damn chat box. Same happens on other sites hosting the game. What am I missing?
posted by carsonb at 7:35 PM on September 21, 2008

Ow my eyes ache but I got through 100 with liberal use of the cheat sheet. With some of them, I could actually see the shape as an object sliding behind a slit, but for some reason that didn't work for most of 'em. And whether I could "see" it or I had to sketch it out on paper, they always came out a lot squattier than they should've. I have drawings of cute fat SPOILER and SPOILER on my doodle pad.
posted by moonmilk at 8:23 PM on September 21, 2008

I love the way the "yay you're right" and "oh, too bad try again" tones are in key to the groovy happy trance music. Also, I suck at this game. I mean, I *nuclear* suck at this game.
posted by ZakDaddy at 8:24 PM on September 21, 2008

Wait, doodle pad?

Spoilers??

Cheat sheets???

Curse you all, I'm going to look at lolcats.
posted by ZakDaddy at 8:26 PM on September 21, 2008 [2 favorites]

Sweet, stuck on.. level 7. I suck at 1D. I was able to get the answers to letters almost instantly, but now that it's a "could be anything" stage, I seem to lack sufficient imagination to solve it.
posted by cj_ at 8:37 PM on September 21, 2008

How is it possible that the answer to NONE of these is "house on stilts"?
posted by katillathehun at 8:42 PM on September 21, 2008

Odd that the font for the answers doesn't match the characters being shown. I'm looking at you, level 17
posted by mrnutty at 8:47 PM on September 21, 2008 [1 favorite]

Answers can be anything, letters, numbers, shapes, symbols, objects.

Spoilers for incredibly advanced levels:

Level 11284: A sense of entitlement
Level 11285: Small-d democracy
Level 11286: Higgs boson
Level 11287: Sarcasm
posted by Rock Steady at 8:53 PM on September 21, 2008 [9 favorites]

YES IT IS TOO A STAPLE. HOW CAN YOU KNOW WHAT A SCANNER IS AND NOT RECOGNIZE OFFICE SUPPLIES???
posted by katillathehun at 8:54 PM on September 21, 2008 [1 favorite]

cortex: if you're referring to a bug it's now fixed.
posted by RikiTikiTavi at 10:29 PM on September 21, 2008

It is like playing a game through my snow blindness goggles.
posted by Mr_Zero at 10:35 PM on September 21, 2008 [1 favorite]

What's frustrating is that it doesn't care about spaces until the last level.
posted by samw at 11:09 PM on September 21, 2008

Put down the unicode poster and step away from the keyboard.
posted by seanmpuckett at 5:42 AM on September 22, 2008

Finally, a game for radiologists.
posted by StickyCarpet at 5:49 AM on September 22, 2008 [3 favorites]