# Easiest Game Ever **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 14, 2014, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easiest-game-ever/686073 "2014-04-14T07:18:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CheeseDonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@CheeseDonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheeseDonkey)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easiest-game-ever/686073/1 "2014-04-14T07:18:22Z")
I just won. [The Easiest Game Ever](http://easiestgameever.x10.mx/) …what am I doing with my life ---
**Author:** ![Waymore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Waymore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waymore)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easiest-game-ever/686073/2 "2014-04-14T07:20:54Z")
> [@CheeseDonkey](#): > > I just won. > > [The Easiest Game Ever](http://easiestgameever.x10.mx/) > > **…what am I doing with my life** Winning? ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easiest-game-ever/686073/3 "2014-04-14T07:39:53Z")
[You Have to Burn the Rope](http://www.kongregate.com/games/mazapan/you-have-to-burn-the-rope) is supposed to be easy too, but I’m stuck. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easiest-game-ever/686073/4 "2014-04-14T08:16:45Z")
…Have you tried burning the rope? Does anyone else here wonder if this qualifies as a “game”? I mean, I think from a game design perspective, this is one of those interesting case studies. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easiest-game-ever/686073/5 "2014-04-14T08:52:11Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > …Have you tried burning the rope? But how? The game gave me zero instruction. > [@](#): > > Does anyone else here wonder if this qualifies as a “game”? I mean, I think from a game design perspective, this is one of those interesting case studies. Apparently, Cookie Clicker is very popular. You click a cookie. Other stuff does happen, but that’s most of it I just remembered another one: Progress Quest. It’s a completely automated (that means you click start and watch the awesomeness happen) RPG where you slay monsters, take their stained ogre tighty-whiteys, rust monster scrotums (or whatever) until you can’t carry any more, then go to town to sell. Repeat. My Battle-Finch Slow Poisoner is going to make it big some day! ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easiest-game-ever/686073/6 "2014-04-15T05:06:26Z")
> [@CheeseDonkey](#): > > I just won. > > [The Easiest Game Ever](http://easiestgameever.x10.mx/) > > …what am I doing with my life And based on the counters, people have been refreshing the win page more then the button page, or maybe they’re just going directly to the Win and skipping the button press part of the game entirely. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easiest-game-ever/686073/7 "2014-04-15T16:32:33Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **thelurkinghorror** , re: Cookie Clicker: > > You click a cookie. Other stuff does happen, but that’s most of it If by “most”, you mean “about 5%”. In my current run, I’ve made 23.878 quintillion cookies by clicking, out of a total of 460.43 quintillion. ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easiest-game-ever/686073/8 "2014-04-24T03:54:49Z")
I think that in the case of these ridiculously easy games, the _real_ game is to make the most willfully obtuse reaction imaginable, then convince _everyone_ else to follow suit and fall completely in line, and just keep it going and going as long as humanly possible. (Presumably the game ends as soon as someone says “Are you all idiots?” or “C’mon, I know you’re just making this up,” or whatever, but I’ve yet to see this happen.) This being the case…sorry, but I don’t think anything’s touching You Have To Burn The Rope. Check out the TVTopes page. Sixty, count 'em, _sixty_ entries. Don’t even get me started on the utter insanity on Kongregate. I mean, you’d think this would be the sort of thing that would spawn spinoffs, but why even bother? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easiest-game-ever/686073/9 "2014-04-24T14:42:03Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > I just remembered another one: Progress Quest. It’s a completely automated (that means you click start and watch the awesomeness happen) RPG where you slay monsters, take their stained ogre tighty-whiteys, rust monster scrotums (or whatever) until you can’t carry any more, then go to town to sell. Repeat. My Battle-Finch Slow Poisoner is going to make it big some day! I have a level 78 Gyro-gnome! I still “play” Progress Quest regularly!