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Snood, the Simple Game

Posted by jamie on Tuesday January 14, 2003 @08:32AM from the three-of-these-a-decade dept.

Greg Costikyan has penned a Snood screed that bears reading for anyone into game design. I gave Snood a try a couple of years ago when I read that Woz was hooked on it. Fun. I've played it on and off since then. But the ninth most popular game in 2001? That's nuts. Is Snood part of a series of tiny puzzley games, like Tetris and Bejeweled, that can still do well in a world of Counterstrikes and Unreal Tournaments? Is there still the chance for an individual or small team to strike it rich writing a game like this (maybe for cell phones)? Or is the engagingly simple game doomed to extinction? M : The Snood-equivalent for Linux is Frozen Bubble.

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Sad news -- Don Knuth dead at 65 by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-14 08:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Computer Science pioneer Donald Knuth was found dead in his California home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to computer science. Truly an American icon.
1. Re:Sad news -- Don Knuth dead at 65 by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-14 08:42 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Off topic AND false, AFAICT. Searched google news and found nothing.
Snoodling? Isn't that a gaysexual thing? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-14 08:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Snoodling: When an uncircumcised homo pulls his extra foreskin over the cock of another homo and proceeds to jerk him off. Those gays have way too much free time. Can be used at as a great derogatory term as in, "You Snoodler!"

http://www.number-one-adult-sexual-health-terms- ad visor.com/obsecure.htm
Re:Snood registration code by LawAbidingCitizen · 2003-01-15 04:56 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Hi Ghandi!
Information may want to be free, but posting that code is stealing and wrong! You can be sued and possibly prosecuted for stealing. You should delete that post asap.
:-)