Spot the 9 differences

December 16, 2008 8:09 PM

Difference Games offers you 9 spot-the-difference games. The 3 categories are Graphic Novels and Comics, Play With Mum and Difference Xtreme! My favorite is The Dragon and the Wizard, which makes failure interesting.
Difference Games offers you 9 "spot the difference" games. The three categories are Graphic Novels & Comics; Play with Mum and Difference Xtreme! My favourite is The Dragon and the Wizard, which makes success interesting.
posted by Kattullus (33 comments total)

I want to favourite this post more than once.
posted by crossoverman at 8:21 PM on December 16, 2008 [1 favorite]

I want to favorite this post more than once.
posted by crossoverman at 8:21 PM on December 16, 2008 [1 favorite]

This is awesome. Thanks!
posted by tickingclock at 8:41 PM on December 16, 2008

I want to favourite this post more than once.x 2

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posted by Alvy Ampersand at 8:51 PM on December 16, 2008

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]

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posted by kyleg at 8:54 PM on December 16, 2008 [3 favorites]

Find Six Funny Things in This Picture
posted by I Foody at 8:59 PM on December 16, 2008

I like dreams.
posted by zippy at 9:00 PM on December 16, 2008 [1 favorite]

The Dragon one was fun.

(Also, your ninth difference was sort of tricky.)
posted by parudox at 9:00 PM on December 16, 2008

Ooh! I made it to page 40 of the high scores.
posted by tellurian at 9:01 PM on December 16, 2008

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posted by Kattullus at 9:02 PM on December 16, 2008 [1 favorite]

Also: test your awareness.
posted by Xere at 9:13 PM on December 16, 2008 [3 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.

Stupid linux/flash.
posted by Orange Pamplemousse at 10:20 PM on December 16, 2008

Clever. A little bit too clever...
posted by christhelongtimelurker at 10:23 PM on December 16, 2008

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

I see what you did there.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 7:55 AM on December 17, 2008

Stupid linux/flash.

Running FF3 on Linux here, and am having no problems.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 7:58 AM on December 17, 2008

This post flagged as "Must Check at Home Where Internet Police Do Not Reside".
posted by ObscureReferenceMan at 8:06 AM on December 17, 2008

Fun link.
Only I couldn't get the music to turn off.
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posted by tehloki at 7:39 PM on December 17, 2008 [1 favorite]

I liked these better in Soviet Russia when it was "Spot the Dissidents."
posted by Eideteker at 8:22 AM on December 19, 2008