Games and Gaming #36: The Wide World of Online Role Playing

1) I went through about half of the tutorial for Runescape. This took me much longer than 15 minutes. It was easy to get around, but somewhat frustrating. I kept burning the shrimp, and could not figure out how to do it without burning it. When I finally cooked it properly, I didn't know what I did right. I chopped down numerous trees in my efforts. It was funny to see all the newbies running right through each other, standing in the fire, etc. It was hard to remember those characters represented real people doing the same thing I was doing...trying to make my way in this new game world.

It was educational when it got to the bronze/copper part.

2) My character had about shoulder length brown hair, a green blouse, black pants and brown boots.

#35 Games and Gaming

I spent time using FreeRice and WordSplay. It was easy to kill 15 minutes! Both were enjoyable and I very much like the idea behind the FreeRice game. I found WordSplay to be the more frustrating of the two because I couldn't get words longer than 4 letters and the clock was ticking.....

FreeRice helps build vocabulary and WordSplay builds dexterity and quickness as well as the ability to unscramble letters and think of different combinations of words.