As is tradition for my birthday, SpikeDislike2 is free on iOS today. If you don't already have it, go and grab it, and then have fun disliking spikes.

Meanwhile

I posted this Monday's game, last night, already! I figured today probably wouldn't be a very productive coding day, so thought I should do something quick, and ended up with another Solitaire game for Shoebox. Monte Carlo Solitaire is in the Shoebox's Card Games, and I'll do the bloggy stuff later on, whe...

Use the letters on the bottom to build as many words as you can. Try to find all of the pre-selected words at the top, to earn a "Win". You can Play Words Within within the Words section of the Shoebox.

At around about 4:30pm, yesterday, I realised my Do-Clone was probably not going to make it..

The word puzzle/game thing I thought was going to work has also ended up being abandoned. The game's own logic became its downfall!

Yesterday I started work on a Shoebox game for the week.

OK, I THOUGHT (according to comments on half-a-dozen websites) that the issue I was having with the cache was a "Leave it for 24 hours and it'll magically update" one. I've left it for about 28 hours, and still Edge Chromium isn't updating the spritesheet for the game, thus... For me at least.. None of the sprites for Handlink are showing up. They ARE showing up in Firefox, Chrome and iOS Safari. So, um. If you're in the mood, give it a whirl and let me know what happens for you. Do...

Light up five of the handlink's buttons so that all the surrounding values become zeroes. Each value states how many squares in its row/column should be lit up, and will change along with your pushes, so a bit of analysis should allow you to solve the puzzle well enough. You can Play Handlink in the Shoebox, under the Misc Games section.

Having some right issues with the cache, today.

The Shoebox is now using the "Server Worker" method of caching, instead of the older AppCache style. With any luck, you shouldn't be able to tell the difference, and everything will continue to work swimmingly. I'm not sure what the exact rule for cache-update-checks is, especially if you're playing with an "Add to Home Screen" kind of bookmark, but it appears to be doing a decent job of keeping up to date. Please do give it a try, and let me know how you get on with the update, reporting...

.. If only that was "Money!" and not "trying to update the cache for Shoebox"

Paint the grid one player at a time, painting 9 squares around your chosen point, if they're empty. The player that paints the last square is the winner. You can Play Obstruction in the Shoebox, under the One On One games section.

Move the blocks left and right to match up the colours and make them disappear. You can Play Vexed in the Shoebox in the Misc section.

Started to make a Shoebox game with a lot of holes in it, last night.

Can you manage to put your bubbles in order, before AL can? Take it in turns to move one of the two centre bubbles, and swap it with one of the bubbles in your row. Try to figure out the best method to get all the bubbles into numerical order. You can Play Sort Bubbles here, in the One on One section of the Shoebox.

Last week, Tobobobo picked out this game as a possible Shoebox addition, and .. I think it's probably something that could work. I think that'll be this week's Shoebox title. It seems simple enough, but deceptively so. A nice unusual game, fit for the box. If you've any games you'd like to see me tackle, be it Foldapuz, Shoebox or Browsercade, feel free to suggest it, and I'll see if I can work it into play. .. Unless it spirals into complex depths that become unmanageabl...

Build a bridge of words! Right to left, westwards, using standard "Crossword Game" rules, but staying within vertical rows. You can Play WestWords in the Shoebox, under Word Games.

Place all 40 cards (Ace to 10, all four suits) within the grid. Create "Jimps", matches between adjacent cards, to score points. Multiple Jimps score bonus points, and you can rack up combos by placing more multiples after each other. You can Play Jimper in the Shoebox, under Misc. I was tempted to add it to the Card Games section, but felt it was more Puzzle than Card, so it went into the Misc like Cardagain is.. Feel free to argue if you think that's wrong!!

A simple enough solitaire game. 13 piles are placed onto the table, with any Kings being pushed to the bottom of the pile. You can shuffle the cards around the table, one at a time, placing a card onto a card one-higher, as long as it is NOT of the same suit. eg, you can place a Nine of Diamonds on top of a Ten of Hearts, Clubs or Spades, but NOT onto a Ten of Diamonds. The four foundation piles work as standard, and must be increased from Ace to King in the same suit. Your task,...

Took AGES getting even simple movement working yesterday.