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Do you have a lot of free time? Here’s a great time waster.

The Challenging Stage is an online puzzle game in which 56 video games are represented as abstract images populating a large city. And to make it all the more awesome, the whole thing is in pixel art!

The objective is to figure out what games these pictures are supposed to be. For example, in the image above you can see, among others, Double Dragon.

I’m nowhere near finding all of them, which is a big hit to my gamer-cred. Oh well…

(The Challenging Stage, via Geekologie)

Remember Empire magazine’s Cryptic Canvas? The first time I tried it, I could only find 30 out of the 50 movies. But since I have a bit of a completion obsession, I had to go back and finish it. Here’s the list of all the movies in the picture:

Brick
Iris
Snakes on a Plane
Moulin Rouge
Pulp Fiction
Children of Men
Trainspotting
Milk
Chocolat
The Thin Red Line
Walk the Line
An Interview With the Vampire
Attack of the Clones
Traffic
300
Enter the Dragon
The pianist
Swimming With Sharks
Ice Age
Crash
Signs
The Two Towers
The Last King of Scotland
The Fisher King
The English Patient
The Dark Knight
Iron man
Anchorman
Pi
The Matrix
Stardust
Saw
Happy Feet
Cloverfield
Bolt
Flags of our Fathers
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Zodiac
Liar Liar
Million Dollar Baby
Scream
Monsters inc
No Country for Old Men
The Green Mile
The Crow
Hook
Gladiator
Pirates of the Caribbean
Eagle Eye
Little Children

To celebrate its 20th birthday, Empire magazine has set up The Cryptic Canvas:

There are 50 clues to the titles of 50 great films hidden in this painting – can you spot them all? The films included all date from the last 20 years, to celebrate Empire magazine’s 20th birthday – but that’s all the help we’re going to give you. Just say what you see, and you should get the lot!

Makes a good Sunday afternoon timewaster.

I’m a fan of puzzles like Rubik’s Cube, so when I read about this Neocube thing, I was curious, to say the least. From their website:

The NeoCube is an entertainment device like no other in the world.

Composed of high-energy rare-earth magnets, the NeoCube allows you to create and recreate an outrageous number of shapes and patterns.

The NeoCube Is literally a puzzle with billions of solutions.

Your NeoCube will provide you with hours and hours of unequaled entertainment!

The NeoCube Alpha is perfect for gaming, expression, stress relief, dual hemispherical brain stimulation and much more

The price tag: $29.95 at their site. It kind of sound like a lot for such a small and apparently simple toy, but just look at these videos:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gidumziw4JE

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYoT-JiA5G0

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ_EJuU-R7Q

Very cool, right?!

So if by any chance anyone wants to send me a gift, this is a pretty good choice

(via The Inquisitr)