# Shoot...another website to get hooked on **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 23, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoot-another-website-to-get-hooked-on/203351 "2003-09-23T16:51:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoot-another-website-to-get-hooked-on/203351/1 "2003-09-23T16:51:26Z")
I didn’t mean to stray, really. It was innocent…something my SIL mentioned in passing. I must confess. I’ve been visiting [www.pogo.com](http://www.pogo.com) and playing games. I’ve played Trivia games and Word Scramble games. Quick little games, but next think I know, lunch hour is over and I’ve only posted to SDMB a couple of times. ---
**Author:** ![Nangleator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e19adc/32.png) [@Nangleator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nangleator)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoot-another-website-to-get-hooked-on/203351/2 "2003-09-23T17:41:14Z")
You won’t trap me, damn you. …must resist link… must \ resist… ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoot-another-website-to-get-hooked-on/203351/3 "2003-09-23T18:48:16Z")
**ivy** , don’t you have any websites that my company’s “games” blocker WON’T filter? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoot-another-website-to-get-hooked-on/203351/4 "2003-09-23T19:01:34Z")
Sorry, **Max** …but you are supposed to be working, you know. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoot-another-website-to-get-hooked-on/203351/5 "2003-09-23T20:46:37Z")
Ah, Pogo. That damn Word Whomp has kept me awake until 3 a.m. on more than one occasion. Even after I sign off and go to bed, I’m unscrambling letters and whacking moles in my head. Happy ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoot-another-website-to-get-hooked-on/203351/6 "2003-09-23T21:10:29Z")
I was able to get all the words once. It’s hard! Oh, and they had “knifes” has a valid word once. Huh. ---
**Author:** ![Wyatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b19c9b/32.png) [@Wyatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wyatt)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoot-another-website-to-get-hooked-on/203351/7 "2003-09-23T21:27:26Z")
Popcap dot com… the bastards … have killed many an evening, afternoon, work time for me! Alchemy got me pretty well … but now it’s Rocket Mania and worse still… my record is 450,000 … but my brother’s nephew just hit 988,000 … so, now I not only have the game to hook me … but competitive streak is triggered … _sigh_ brat kid! Oh and they have some stoopid pirate game that just keeps teasing me into thinking I have it figured out … Don’t go there, I tell you, just Don’t Do It… I’ve warned you … ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoot-another-website-to-get-hooked-on/203351/8 "2003-09-23T23:42:19Z")
We have met the enemy and he is us. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoot-another-website-to-get-hooked-on/203351/9 "2003-09-24T01:42:27Z")
Oh dear god, Pogo. Word Whomp. Sweet Tooth. Buckaroo Blackjack. And more. And I’m entered to win a Pogo beach towel! Sends shivers down my spine, I tell ya! ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoot-another-website-to-get-hooked-on/203351/10 "2003-09-24T04:43:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wyatt \* > …Rocket Mania > and worse still… my record is 450,000 … but my brother’s nephew just hit 988,000 … so, now I not only have the game to hook me … but competitive streak is triggered … _sigh_ brat kid! He’s got some catching up to do. According to posted scores, among dopers I have the second highest-score ever, at 2.8 mil (someone in **Biggirl** ’s thread got 5.4 mil). ---
**Author:** ![Wyatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b19c9b/32.png) [@Wyatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wyatt)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoot-another-website-to-get-hooked-on/203351/11 "2003-09-24T08:02:32Z")
WOW… some work to do, to be sure… the 13 year-old "nephew-in-law just blasted past 1,100,000 Me… I’ve got some work to do… _chuckle_ ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoot-another-website-to-get-hooked-on/203351/12 "2003-09-24T08:16:22Z")
the best game evereverever was a multiplayer one where you get given a set of words, and you’ve got to make a sentence out of them. then everyone votes for who’s sentence was the best. ---
**Author:** ![wireless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f14d63/32.png) [@wireless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wireless)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoot-another-website-to-get-hooked-on/203351/13 "2003-09-24T14:20:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ivylass \* > \*\*Oh, and they had “knifes” has [sic] a valid word once. Huh. \*\* Think _verb_, not _noun_: to knife = to stab. I knife, you knife, it knifes,… As in: “That new kayak knifes through the rough water like a dream.” Hope that helps solve a mystery! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoot-another-website-to-get-hooked-on/203351/14 "2003-09-24T16:23:01Z")
Ah…thanks for the insight, **wireless**.