No wait, I lose, frig! I hated these things in Highlights For Children, and I hate them now. posted by Alvy Ampersand at 8:53 PM on December 16, 2008 [4 favorites]
Alternate psychedelic play method: form a stereo image of the puzzle, then speed click through the differences (each discernible by a shimmery halo effect). Your goal is to place in the top 5 on the leader board within two attempts. For an enhanced sensory experience, play while listening to the Codpaste podcast. Triperific. posted by prinado at 9:24 PM on December 16, 2008
I am no fun at bars because of these matching games.
Sometimes at work when I am comparing printing passes, I pretend it is photo-hunt. posted by rmless at 9:29 PM on December 16, 2008
AKA: Cross your eye games. posted by joelf at 9:33 PM on December 16, 2008
Kattullus, this may be the cleverest presentation of a post ever. Excellent idea and execution! posted by yhbc at 9:41 PM on December 16, 2008 [1 favorite]
Yeah, when the two different scenes are side by side, crossing your eyes to make a single "3D" images reveals the differences.
Also, in the dragon game, at least, you can swap the pointer and the circle, by moving the pointer out of the side/version it's in. Whichever version the circle is in will be copied to the version with the pointer. As you can swap at will, you can determine which of each of the differences will be in the final, matching images posted by orthogonality at 9:44 PM on December 16, 2008
Is anyone else seeing the transparent boxes surround each of the differences in the Wizard one? Makes the game a little easy.
After doing the magic eye thing, I now have multiple top 20 scores and a throbbing headache. posted by empath at 10:46 PM on December 16, 2008
I can't believe that in all my years of playing drunk photo hunt at bars, i never thought of doing the stereo thing before. I'm going to wow people with my elite skills tomorrow night. posted by empath at 10:48 PM on December 16, 2008
I like dreams
it's a nicely hypnotic, sleepifying little game. i find it strangely soothing, somehow.. posted by Philby at 12:09 AM on December 17, 2008
Well played, Kattullus. posted by The Monkey at 1:41 AM on December 17, 2008
All these games seem to run on the same (not different) framework, or as they call it, an engine. So it's a Difference Engine? posted by orthogonality at 1:42 AM on December 17, 2008 [2 favorites]
This is the kind of thing that addicts me. posted by Stewriffic at 4:09 AM on December 17, 2008
It's just like Erotic Photo Hunt, but with dragons instead of 80s women in awkward poses! This is great. posted by uncleozzy at 6:22 AM on December 17, 2008
I can't believe that in all my years of playing drunk photo hunt at bars, i never thought of doing the stereo thing before. I'm going to wow people with my elite skills tomorrow night.
I always find I'm too close to the screen to successfully do that, particularly for an extended period and without giving myself a raging headache.
I love photohunt. I just wish those machines weren't so damn expensive, even on the secondary market. posted by inigo2 at 6:24 AM on December 17, 2008
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