So, found this some time ago, but I figure I should let out the secret. There's a free game site (www.gwap.com) that has some pretty addicting games. It should also be noted that my wife enjoys them too. Here's a couple of my favorites:
Verbosity - You and random partner #1 take turns trying to describe and guess a secret word, much like the party game Taboo. The describer has only a few specific clues that they can write, such as "is like ____", "found in ____", etc, and can tell the guesser whether they're hot or cold.
ESP Game - You and random partner #2 look at the same photograph and must think of words to describe it. Name words like crazy until both of you come up with the same word, score a point, and move on to the next picture.
Tag a Tune - You and random partner #3 listen to music, and must describe what you're listening to. Is your partner listening to the same music? Both you and random partner must decide. Get a point if you're right.
If they don't sound like fun, you must have no imagination, and should check it out just to prove me wrong. But here's the neat part of the games. Ever wonder how, if you do an image search on a search engine, how it knows to show a tree when you type "tree"? It's two types of unrelated data, and the computer can't tell if the .jpg it's storing has a "tree" at all. Some poor sap had to come along and tell the computer that image has a "tree." (It's the same with music, and word comprehension; the computer can not associate.) It would take too much time and money for one person to do that to the billions of pictures on the web...unless you turned it into a game, and made other people do all the work for free!
Brilliant! I guess that's why they call it Games With A Purpose. So go, try it out, and have fun making computers so smart they take over the world.
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