# Yet another simple, elegant, addictive Flash game **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 29, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-simple-elegant-addictive-flash-game/439682 "2008-02-29T22:29:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-simple-elegant-addictive-flash-game/439682/21 "2008-03-02T20:04:16Z")
[QUOTE=Brown Eyed Girl] Ok, maybe I’m stupid or something, but I don’t get it. I hit around 100 repeatedly on Level I, never hit a bouncy ball and suddenly, Game Over. What am I doing wrong? [/QUOTE] Never mind. I figured out you’re supposed to hold the key down to make the ball bigger. Silly me, I was speed clicking. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2008, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-simple-elegant-addictive-flash-game/439682/22 "2008-03-02T20:15:19Z")
[QUOTE=ArizonaTeach] Why does a ball suddenly appear in the upper right corner out of nowhere?! WHY?!? [/QUOTE] I’m not sure, but I think it works like this; know those ping-pong destroyers you trap and they wiggle around all ticked off? If you happen to trap them on an outside edge of the box, they slide through the wall and come back thru the upper right corner. Except sometimes they do stay trapped against an edge, and don’t slide thru. Haven’t quite figured this one out yet. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2008, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-simple-elegant-addictive-flash-game/439682/23 "2008-03-02T21:32:13Z")
By level 30 I was praying for loss (because I’m just to stubborn not to keep trying) and that was it. 67,733 and I’m done. My clicking finger hurts now. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Surok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Surok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surok)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-simple-elegant-addictive-flash-game/439682/24 "2008-03-02T21:36:54Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] I’m sorry for inflicting this on everyone. [/QUOTE] Yeah. You took a day out of my life. And I will probably be going back. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-simple-elegant-addictive-flash-game/439682/25 "2008-03-03T01:16:55Z")
[QUOTE=Sam Stone] Now at level 54 (same game). I think the game balance may be out of whack. It seems to get easier as the levels go up, because you get so many balls and lives. When I finished level 54, I still had 37 balls and 46 lives left. I think those scores in the millions aren’t a ‘cheat’ they were just the people who don’t have lives. [/QUOTE] It took me all day, pausing the game to go do other things, to get to 100,000, and then I just got bored. Once you figure it out it’s easy. A million would take an astoundingly long time. Who can play it THAT long? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-simple-elegant-addictive-flash-game/439682/26 "2008-03-04T19:07:27Z")
[QUOTE=ArizonaTeach] Why does a ball suddenly appear in the upper right corner out of nowhere?! WHY?!? [/QUOTE] If one of your balls lands on a little ball and pushes it out of play, a new ball appears on the top of the screen. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-simple-elegant-addictive-flash-game/439682/27 "2008-03-05T01:39:13Z")
Level 17 and forgot to check my score. I could see going forever though, because I kinda got bored and tried seeing how fast I could do it, so I lost a lot of lives stupidly. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-simple-elegant-addictive-flash-game/439682/28 "2008-03-05T02:23:53Z")
I now have my husband hooked. Excellent… ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-simple-elegant-addictive-flash-game/439682/29 "2008-03-05T04:57:33Z")
[QUOTE=Sam Stone] I think those scores in the millions aren’t a ‘cheat’ they were just the people who don’t have lives. [/QUOTE] Maybe, but if you were of a mind to do so, it _is_ pretty easy to cheat. (Just click the mouse and quickly drag to the left side, then let go. The ball will safely grow off screen to about 49%, possibly giving you over 100% clearance.) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-simple-elegant-addictive-flash-game/439682/30 "2008-03-05T05:46:05Z")
Level 12, 20k…then things started getting slow so I tried to look for an option to reduce the quality and restarted. \>\_\< ---
**Author:** ![T\_SQUARE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de053/32.png) [@T\_SQUARE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T_SQUARE)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-simple-elegant-addictive-flash-game/439682/31 "2008-03-05T08:11:12Z")
My internet deal crashed around 35,000. That kind of sucked. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-simple-elegant-addictive-flash-game/439682/32 "2008-03-05T08:46:14Z")
I’ve still got the same game going. It’s in another browser tab and I clear off a level occasionally when I’m bored. I’m at level 77, 258,000 points. No cheating. I didn’t even know that was possible. This could go on for a long time. I finished the last game with 38 balls and 35 lives left. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-simple-elegant-addictive-flash-game/439682/33 "2008-03-05T09:47:16Z")
I have now concluded that my thread title should have been “Yet another simple, elegant, addictive, STUPID Flash game”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-simple-elegant-addictive-flash-game/439682.md?page=1)