Now that you’re thoroughly relaxed from last week’s game, it’s time to up the ante just slightly. But don’t worry, depending on what you do for a living, your boss might not notice that you’re slacking.
Why? Because this week’s free game starts with an Excel spreadsheet as a launching pad for puzzle-gaming antics. You might be able to get away with this for about 5 minutes before that nosy cubicle mate of yours goes squealing to the higher-ups. Jerk. Not that there aren’t bigger wastes of time that are Excel related.
Till then, Excit challenges you to get the cursor from its starting point to the exit using only the arrow keys. Your cursor moves in any given direction until it hits something or is redirected by an obstacle. Things escalate quickly and before you know it one tap of the keyboard has the cursor flying around and transporting in ways you hadn’t predicted. You can think you’re way through them, but I used the trial and error method and have gotten to the last level (I’m stuck though).
If you think you can do better, click here and prove me wrong.
Is me baiting you making you any more interested in my blog post? (Fingers crossed.)
Enjoy.
This article appears in June 26 • 2009.
