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Grex Sports Item 109: on-line games
Entered by jep on Fri Jun 1 17:28:30 UTC 2001:

This item is for discussion of on-line games.  Some of these have some 
connection to sports, but many do not.  We can discuss all of our 
favorites here.

4 responses total.

#1 of 4 by jep on Fri Jun 1 18:07:55 2001:

One of the best implemented on-line games is Web Darts, accessible from 
http://homepages.enterprise.net/rglennie/darts/game.cgi.  There are one 
person and two person games there; the WWW page is set up for 7 
different darts games: 501, 301, Around the Board, Shanghai, Cricket, 
Golf and Double Trouble.

I like 301 quite a lot; you have to hit a double to start the game, then 
score exactly 301 points, finishing on a double.  If you go over 301, 
you lose the rest of your handful of darts, which can cost you 3 shots. 
The best possible score in 301 is 7 (50+1+50*5) (there are other methods 
of getting there as well).  I've scored as low as 12, and maybe lower.

#2 of 4 by jep on Fri Jun 1 18:31:47 2001:

Then there's the Jezzball site.  I knew there must be a jezzball site; 
jezzball is an addictive but simple game on one of Microsoft's game CDs. 
There just had to be a site where you could play this game on-line.  
Sure enough, there is, it's:  
http://www.bolaloca.com/way/cool/bl/index.html

It's almost exactly the same game as on the Microsoft CD.  You go to the 
site, pick "play now", enter a user name and password for yourself, and 
then try to trap those bouncing little balls.  The game keeps track of 
the daily and all-time high scores, which get into the amazing range; 
just today someone has gotten it up to level 52, and all-time, the 
highest level is 273.  (I don't get how anyone could play at that level; 
I've never been above level 12, but there it is on the high score 
board.)

If you go there and play, you can see my latest scores as "Iconoclast" 
or "Michigan_State_Spartans_Rule!".  (Sometimes I use one, sometimes the 
other.)

Great game for 10 minute breaks.

#3 of 4 by jep on Fri Jun 1 18:32:11 2001:

Oh, and you can play BocaLoca in Spanish, if you like.

#4 of 4 by jep on Fri Jun 1 19:46:32 2001:

Wow, I just got an 8 in Web Darts "301".  That's unquestionably my best 
ever, and the best I ever hoped to do.

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