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Solve a Puzzle, Win a Minkster!

NOTE: This competition has ended.

Did you know that the preliminary USB flash drives sold in late 2000 could only store up to 8 MB of data? We’ve come a long way since then with newer, fancier  flash drives being able to hold hundreds of GBs of erotic art personal stuff and allow a bazillion writes to the drive (OK, I lied. It’s only a million.) The design of these devices has changed too and miniaturization has resulted in them being incorporated into everyday items like pens and watches. We’re far more interested in the creative aspect though and have seen a fair share of unusual flash drives. My personal favourite is the humping dog but I’m a touch peculiar.

Keeping with the theme of creative flash drives, we stumbled onto the works of a lovely Cape Town-based graphic designer. Alex Seaton is the creator of Minky, a playful range of designer products and Minksters is her series of super cute USB flash drives. Each 4GB Minkster includes a wallpaper and icons, a puzzle game, and a bonus paper toy that you can make for your desk. There are six Minksters in the series and they come in a range of vibrant colours to liven up your workspace.

We’re giving you the chance to win a Minkster of your choice. This competition is a little different to our last one in that we’re not letting random chance decide the outcome. Your fate is most certainly in your hands this time. We want you to solve a puzzle, a shuffle puzzle in fact. Alex has created the puzzle and a scoreboard specifically for us and all you have to do to win the prize is to top the table at the end of the competition. Have you got what it takes, playa? Find the full competition details after the jump.

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Flash Games

Play This: Color Theory

A quick look on Wikipedia reveals that color theory to be “a body of practical guidance to color mixing and the visual impacts of specific color combinations”. It is shown to good effect in this similarly-titled retro puzzle/platformer where you play as a little pixel-man who needs to overcome obstacles in each level by using primary and secondary colours to aid his progress. Touching a red, green, or blue sign results in your man being able to pass through obstacles of that colour. Furthermore, through additive colour mixing, touching certain other signs will let you pass through obstacles of more than one colour, for example, a magenta sign would make the red and blue obstacles disappear.

Play Color Theory and let us know how you fared.

[via zefrank on Twitter]

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Play This: Not Tetris

We’ve seen all manner of Tetris mods from xkcd’s Tetris Hell to an FPS clone to a suitably mean-spirited version.  And we never get tired of playing them. Tetris fan Maurice from Cologne, Germany has created a mod of the popular puzzle game that keeps the nostalgic graphics and sounds but introduces real-world physics. Unlike the original game, in Not Tetris the completed lines don’t get cleared and your end goal is to stack as many pieces onto top of each other as you can.

Seems easy right? Download Not Tetris (3.5 MB, PC-only I’m afraid) and let us know how you fared.

[via The Awesomer]

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Flash Games

Play This: Fault Line

Remember those old Mad magazine fold-ins where you fold the sections on the page together to reveal a hidden image? Nitrome’s puzzle platformer Fault Line uses that folding technique at the core of its fun gameplay.

You play as a little robot who needs to reach the the exit of each level. In between you and the purple teleportation pad is a series of obstacles, which can be overcome by folding parts of the level together. You do this by joining nodes together with your awesome detachable arms.

It’s fun, puzzling, and totally beats working on Monday mornings. Play Fault Line.

[via My Gaming]

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Robot Unicorn Attack!

Have your ever dreamed that you were a beautiful robot unicorn bounding about a purple landscape with the sounds of Erasure’s Always gently caressing your ears? It’s OK for you to admit it, we won’t judge you. In fact we’re here to tell you, you don’t need to dream anymore!

From Adult Swim comes an addictive flash game where you can act out your equine fantasies. In a similar mechanic to Canabalt, Robot Unicorn Attack tasks you with running as far and fast as you can, collecting butterflies and avoiding obstacles along the way.

Now run my friend, run free like the majestic unicorn you’ve long yearned to be. Play Robot Unicorn Attack now!

The game make take a moment to load so be patient. It’s been played 27,964,553 times so it’s a teensy bit popular. When you’re done, drop us a comment with your top score.

[via SLACKERJACK]

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Flash Games

Can You Escape the GUEST HOUSE?

prawn1: It’s Thursday and you know what that means don’t you?

blog visitor extraordinaire (that’s you): Not a clue.

prawn1: Good, neither do I. We should do something, how about we try out hand at an “escape the room” game?

blog visitor extraordinaire: Excellent idea, you’re so clever and abnormally handsome. What have you got in mind?

prawn1: Created by GUMP, and third in the Terminal House series of point-and-click, room escape games, comes Guest House. You happened to be trapped in a room and need to get out because, oh I don’t know, a huge manatee will soon arrive to demand sexual favours from you. To prevent such unsolicited intrusions into your body cavity, you will need to collect various objects within the room and use them to reach your end goal.

Play Guest House and let us know how you got on.

[via MyTechMix]

BONUS: If you like playing games and would like more tangible rewards for your efforts, take a look at our Darksiders competition.

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Flash Games

Play This: First Person Tetris

First-Person Tetris is a cool little flash game that takes you back to the times when you played Alexey Pajitnov’s classic block-dropping puzzler Tetris on your old-school NES. It plays pretty much like a standard game of Tetris but there is a cruel, nauseating twist which I think the Tetris God would approve of.

Give the game a spin at http://firstpersontetris.com.

[via Mccandelish]

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Flash Games

Lights: An Escape-The-Room Game

Unless I’m on holiday, I have no love for Mondays. If you share the same sentiments, then you’ll relish the opportunity to do something stimulating. If that is your job, then good for you, but if not, then you might like this.

You made your way through ПРОНАЂИТЕ НАЧИН ДА ИЗАЂЕТЕ ИЗ СОБЕ and now it’s time to repeat the feat in another escape-the-room type scenario. Lights is one of the five visually pleasing ESCAPER games created by the sadistic developers at Neutral. The title itself implies sunlight or light in general may be key to your freedom.

Play Lights at http://neutralxe.net and let us know how you got on.

[via bontegames]

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Flash Games

Play This: Tuper Tario Tros

Maths can be extremely difficult at times, but not in this instance. What happens when you take the classic platformer Super Mario Bros and add the block-dropping puzzler Tetris to it? Simple – you get Tuper Tario Tros.

In Tuper Tario Tros, world 1-1 starts off as one would expect, but soon Mario comes across obstacles that seem insurmountable. What to do then? Summon the powers of Tetris and build a path that Mario can safely traverse. Use the arrow keys to move, X to jump, and the Space bar to switch between Mario mode and Tetris mode.

Play Tuper Tario Tros at Newgrounds and let us know how you got along. I didn’t do that well, I’m dodgier than that cheesy pick-up line “You plus me, subtract our clothes, divide your legs; multiply.”

[via Kotaku]

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Continuity: An Awesome Tile-Sliding Platformer

I was on Twitter and picked up a vibe that @NickdeBruyne from LazyGamer may be getting bored, something that was realized when tweeted this: “OK, I’m really bored now.”

So I made it my goal this afternoon to keep him occupied, a task that didn’t prove too difficult. I suggest that Nick try Continuity, an awesome tile-sliding puzzle platformer from Ragtime Games, a bunch of university students from Gothenburg, Sweden. Here are Nick’s responses.

RT: @onelargeprawn: @NickdeBruyne Have you played Continuity? http://www.continuitygame.com >> DAMMIT DUDE CUT IT OUT lolol

@onelargeprawn This game is quite freaking awesome though

@onelargeprawn OK seriously dude, screw you, now my afternoon is going to be wasted

Another satisfied customer. I feel good. And now it seems @JustPlainGeoff has gotten wind of it too.

RT: @NickdeBruyne: @onelargeprawn This game is quite freaking awesome though//Listen Prawn. F*ck you for screwing up my Friday productivity.

Oh and @andyroyal pipes in.

RT @NickdeBruyne: I think we can all agree that @onelargeprawn is the cock of the day <= I second that… DAMN YOU

Where I come from, we take things like “screw you” and “F*ck you” as signs of respect and gratitude, so you chaps are more than welcome ;-) If you’d like to find out what Nick, Geoff, and Andy are so engrossed in, head to www.continuitygame.com.

[via CreativeApplications.Net]

BONUS: If you’re on Twitter, you can also follow Ragtime Games and if you haven’t done so, follow us.