4.11.2011

Clockbusters

Cool and addictive movie game. You're given three stock photos as clues and 60 seconds on the clock. Your job is to name the movie the photos are suggesting.

Sounds easy enough -- but it can get tricky once you get into it.

To be honest, when I started out on it it seemed a little too easy for my taste, but it did stump me for a while on a few of them. Luckily you can skip over ones you get stuck on and come back to them later.

On the downside though -- even though you can skip and come back, the game doesn't officially end until you correctly answer all the questions (or give up). This was especially bad in my case because the one it said I was getting wrong was one that I ABSOLUTELY KNEW I WAS GETTING RIGHT.

Here's the weird part -- the game is really open-minded about spelling and grammar. If you get most of the name of a movie right it will give it to you, and if the clues are from a series or a trilogy, you can still get the question right if you just give the main title of the series and not the specific installment -- except for this one particular question where the thing turned suddenly super-anal about how you type the words in, which was really frustrating until I figured it out.

Even with 50 questions and that one particular quirk it's a very quick and fun time-waster, and the kind of test that a movie nerd can't resist.

I aced it (..eventually) -- which isn't really that big of a deal, since that's the way the way the game is designed, but I got really stuck on about 3 of them (not counting the typo one).

How did you do?

2 comments:

Nathan Brink said...

oh my word help me. I've got 48 out of the 50, and for the life of me I can't get the last two.
The grassy mountain, weird purse thing, and the screaming guy with a painted face.
Also, shushing guy, guy getting punched, and the bar of soap. HELP ME please!

Hex said...

Nathan -- the first one is Braveheart (the weird purse thing is part of a kilt, and the blue and white painted face should make more sense now..) and the first rule of the clue with the shushing guy and the punching and the soap is YOU DON'T TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB!!

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