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Holiday Weekend Timewaster: Guest House

vrekman32 — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:14:03 MST

I think the developers put a lot of love in this game, and it shows it.
One of the best flash games imo

vrekman32

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thebluick — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:16:54 MST

wow, I just found this last week, and now it shows up on kotaku... weird.

thebluick

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mujiber — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:49:30 MST

Not bad, finished the other two as well (terminal and rental). Yeah, some clicking in random places, but not bad. Make sure you pick up the rock and huck it at the UFO at the end!

mujiber

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Tye-The-Czar — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:37:22 MST

@Big_Jock: USO DA!!!!

Tye-The-Czar

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SS Ymer — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:32:41 MST

Needed help with the silver coin and the piece behind the vending machine. I'm not proud of myself but like Portal it was a short, sweet and slightly surreal experience.

SS Ymer

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Jthmeffy — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:45:27 MST

Cool. Had everything but the stupid fuse. I figured it was there, but after clicking everything and not noticing it, I kinda gave up. Was pissed to find a walkthrough telling me to look in the same exact place. Oh well.

Jthmeffy

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umcloud — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:46:57 MST

SPOILER:

Guest House, brought to you today by the makers of Energy Z, the dystopian future's #1 energy drink! Remember, when you're trapped in a puzzle room, and a weird blue babe needs resuscitation, think Energy Z!

umcloud

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PRguitarman — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:30:37 MST

I have to agree that this puzzle just didn't make any sense whatsoever. I had to look up spoilers, and thank god I did because the ending wasn't worth solving on my own.

PRguitarman

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MistryMan — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:30:07 MST

Great little game, cheers Maggie.

MistryMan

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umcloud — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:16:52 MST

@Plus.medic: try clicking in every area where your view is blocked by another object (a shadow is a good hint that there might be something hidden).

umcloud

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plus.medic — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 08:53:43 MST

Why do I feel as though I'm the only person who hasn't figured out the block puzzle. I don't have the value for the square block (and can't find it, try as I might), so how could I possibly solve the equations?

plus.medic

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theJON — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:12:34 MST

In my clicking rage, I managed to click the logo at the top of the page and now I have to start all over again. Forget that. Stupid touch pad. I need a mouse.

theJON

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Ajh — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:40:34 MST

@Fyren: @tetracycloide:
(and more people) You all make me feel not so bad for spending forever looking for that coin.

Ajh

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cheeseboybeans — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:31:51 MST

pretty cool. although when you have to take lids off stuff or click all over the place it just becomes lame. when you can't do it because the puzzle's hard that's good, but when it's just cos it's so damn cheeky you feel like it's not your fault... but yeah i thought it was fun overall.

cheeseboybeans

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WarlordPayne — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:05:45 MST

@bluecell: That was Silent Hill 1. I played it with my cousin, too, and that puzzle was so damned stupid that I haven't played a Silent Hill since.

WarlordPayne

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Fyren — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 02:22:38 MST

Silver coin, Unnecessarily hard to find.

Fyren

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Nickname — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:11:09 MST

Finished it in a approximately 30 minutes. Lots of random clicking.

Because completion wasn't really as dependant on skill as it was on random clicking and luck, I didn't feel clever upon reaching the end; I just felt lucky.

Nickname

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cybereality — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:00:58 MST

Pretty cool but insanely hard. Not sure if I could have beat it without reading some of the comments. Nice graphics, but the game design was flawed. You just end up having to click every spot because there is no indication of what is clickable. It was still fun at times, but way too frustrating. The fuse placement made no sense, why would it be there?

cybereality

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Bluecell — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:24:49 MST

@Big_Jock: I remember playing what I think was Silent Hill 2 with my cousin when we were kids. We spent hours trying to figure out the zodiac puzzle. We even grabbed the horoscope page from the newspaper looking for clues there because we didnt have internet access readily available. When I got home I checked gamefaqs and found out we just had to enter the number of legs each character had. blegh.

Bluecell

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hoorayforcorn — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:19:24 MST

Gump's room escape games have always been my favorites. This one is painfully easy in comparison to his other stuff, though

hoorayforcorn

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DaveKap — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:50:35 MST

The music actually reminded me of Defcon. Very soft and soothing but creepy as all Hell at the same time.

DaveKap

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SSJPabs — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:11:10 MST

Figured that out, but after feeding the soda to the girl and attaching the hose.... uh then what? There's nothing left for me to click on.

SSJPabs

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gadoo — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:57:20 MST

haha. the missing puzzle pieces show up in the zodiac box if you solve the numbers to the zodiac signs correctly.

gadoo

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SSJPabs — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:43:23 MST

How did you attach the tube to the plastic thing? I kept trying but it never did anything.

SSJPabs

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User-name — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:27:00 MST

there's a weird anti-reality in the game.

uwe boll should make this into a movie

User-name

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tetracycloide — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:41:12 MST

also, i think the real puzzle is figuring out how the PC got in the room, that and why you have to rescue the girl as a man by default instead of the other way around or having a choice.

tetracycloide

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tetracycloide — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:36:55 MST

yeah silver coin definitely takes the longest. the most annoying part is when you've done absolutely everything else and you know there's a tiny coin hiding somewhere and you have no idea where to start looking, so you have to look everywhere...

tetracycloide

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Kazzahdrane — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:57:00 MST

Really enjoyed that. Usually I give up on these games after about 30 minutes of random clicking, but I figured this one out all by myself.

"a few hours" though? Not if you're actually playing the game - maybe if you have it on another tab and go back to it for a minute or so every while.

Kazzahdrane

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Shadsy — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:36:58 MST

Aw, hotspot hunting is no fun.

Shadsy

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Ignis — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:32:42 MST

**SPOILERS** kind of...

Lol took me 10 minutes to do it. 5 of those minutes was me trying to figure out what the in the hell that plastic shaped object was...then i figured out it attached to the tube and I felt really stupid...

Anyone else wondering why they were in a maximum security hospital room? There was like 20 doors till the exit.

Ignis

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v00deux — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:31:54 MST

played this a month or so back, was fun, decent example of the genre. i'm a bit addicted to these flash room escape games.

v00deux

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NeoSamurai — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:05:42 MST

These games can be brilliant at times, so lazy and artificially difficult at others. The cipher was great, but the silver coin was obnoxious. This game was ok but it was short/easy compared to some of the other ones I played. I think the first I played was the green room or blue room or something like that. THere was a red room too. I forget, but those were much better

NeoSamurai

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PlayingKarrde — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:42:13 MST

Not a guesthouse I ever want to attend.

That walk out looked far...

PlayingKarrde

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waitinthecar — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:40:54 MST

@BudhaCronX: You watch the intro. =)

waitinthecar

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BudhaCronX — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:25:35 MST

FUN GAME! liked it. One thing: HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO KNOW YOU'RE A BLUE MAN?

BudhaCronX

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WhiteBishop — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:48:11 MST

re:silent hill; with exception to the clunky action and crappy graphics, that game was awsome

WhiteBishop

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SSJPabs — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:41:58 MST

Ah, I love Room Escape games.

BTW, for those who've played it before the Mystery of Time and Space game has received a large expansion update.

SSJPabs

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Yuki — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:35:49 MST

@Bishmon: TO be fair, the linearity makes it fairly obvious. I mean, there is not much else you can do.

Yuki

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Yuki — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:29:01 MST

"Silent Hill" 4: The Room should have been a room escape game. Though I am one of the few who enjoyed it anyway.

Yuki

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Bishmon — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:22:21 MST

I hate these games.

Terminal House *SPOILER*

You mean I'm supposed to take specific photos of what's being projected on the screen and then upload those photos into a computer and beat a certain score in order to get coins to buy sodas with so I can defeat a hidden arm-wrestling machine to get out?

How the fuck did I miss that? It's so obvious.

When done right, these sort of games could be incredible. Unfortunately, they're very hard to do right, as these specific games so clearly illustrate.

Bishmon

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huginn — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:02:34 MST

They make you pop your own tab for soda?!?!!

GAH! that took me 20 minutes alone.. but beat the stupid thing after that

huginn

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Yuki — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:50:28 MST

@rannic: Most of these room escape games I have playerd are like that, with something deviously and randomly hidden, though these seem especially bad about that. Kind of fun, though.

Yuki

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Blinkstale — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:40:29 MST

Very nice. But when one item covers up the fuse... yeaaah. Real PITA.

Otherwise, very nice.

Blinkstale

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rannic — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:28:47 MST

***SILVER COIN SPOILER***

Y'know that thing with the wires and the screws? Look at it, then click on top of it.

Dirty, dirty, dirty. They should have called this game "Randomly Click Around the Damn Place Until You Get Out". The prequel doesn't seem to be much better, but I CAN'T STOP PLAYING IT. :(

rannic

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Jindujun — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:23:15 MST

A shame it was so short =(

Jindujun

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Kiwi Kamikaze — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:05:43 MST

This was fun. The music just really creeped me out though.

Kiwi Kamikaze

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Heart-Skull-Kid — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:40:40 MST

My biggest problems:

Not popping off the Oxygen cap
The fuse (So hard to see and easy to miss)

Heart-Skull-Kid

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totoengima — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:37:58 MST

energy drinks can cure anything

totoengima

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fbdeluxe — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:31:57 MST

Woot i found it! horribly small area you have to click.

fbdeluxe

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fbdeluxe — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:29:26 MST

I feel like ive clicked every area :(

fbdeluxe

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Cirrus — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:29:02 MST

@Yuki: Roflmao yeah :D

Well thats another time waster out of the way, i am free at last.

Cirrus

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Maldron — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:28:58 MST

@fbdeluxe: I only cheated the silver coin, the rest of it I worked out for myself. And I spent a good twenty minutes clicking everywhere I could think of looking for that extra coin, after which I preferred to just get it and keep playing. Sadly, there wasn't much to do past that point.

I would have never found where it was hidden, to be honest, without a guide's help. I don't suggest that people approach these games with a guide in hand from the start, but there are the occasional stumbling blocks that some people won't be able to get past. The game can be ruined both ways - by the stumbling blocks, and by knowing everything in advance. It's a real shame, because these games do require a bit of thought.

Maldron

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Yuki — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:25:57 MST

Oh, the look on your face as you stand by that lever.

Yuki

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fbdeluxe — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:24:10 MST

@Maldron: thats what ive been doing but it really doesnt make for much of a game :/

fbdeluxe

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Maldron — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:22:03 MST

Here's a clue: If you want to cheat the silver coin out of hiding, search for the game on google like I did and get it. I'm not going to post a spoiler that will ruin the game for other people in this post, it's not my style.

Maldron

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fbdeluxe — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:19:47 MST

give us a clue for the silver coin please

fbdeluxe

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Big_Jock — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:18:02 MST

apologies for the double post but:
@Big_Jock: the silver coin is a lie!

LOLs!

Big_Jock

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Mizzuru — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:17:32 MST

can some one link me to a guide, if i dotn solve this im not sleeping

Mizzuru

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Big_Jock — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:17:15 MST

@Mizzuru: the silver coin is needlessly hard.

Big_Jock

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Cirrus — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:17:14 MST

@Maldron: Wheres the silver coin? :(

Cirrus

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Raynre — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:16:24 MST

Random clicking does wonders... which means they didnt put enough thought into properly laying out the design of the room. (I seem to have pulled the spark plug out of thin air.) Resolution needs to be bumped quite a bit.

Raynre

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Mizzuru — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:14:17 MST

where the hell is this silver coin!

Mizzuru

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fbdeluxe — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:13:05 MST

I hate you silver coin :O

fbdeluxe

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Linnard — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:06:32 MST

Well, that's done. I nearly finished it without the fourth chit by breaking down all the probable combinations...

...damn my programmatic tendencies!

Linnard

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cyhborg — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:06:10 MST

@Maldron:

Same here. I found everything except that darn coin.

cyhborg

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fbdeluxe — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:05:48 MST

got her breathing but have only given her one drink :/

fbdeluxe

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Maldron — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:03:32 MST

I had to cheat to find the silver coin, I would've probably spent two more hours clicking on every surface and still not found it. Pff.

Maldron

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alikataz — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:03:21 MST

I don't usually like these games because I get all frustrated, but aside from finding one of the coins, it was all pretty straightforward. I enjoyed this one.

alikataz

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Mizzuru — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:03:17 MST

Foudn the little git, hidden in an awkward place as well!

Mizzuru

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Big_Jock — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:01:39 MST

I enjoyed this...my one problem was quite minor though it caused me to scratch my head for a while...it was the use of zodiac symbols which already have a numeric association... the simultaneous eqns were much appreciated however!

Big_Jock

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Mizzuru — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:59:50 MST

ARgh! I have all the pieces but cant find out how much the one with 3 square ends equals!

Mizzuru

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Chrysalis — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:58:43 MST

found it...apparently that was the end. It's fun, but it's less than an hour long.

Chrysalis

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Raynre — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:58:32 MST

Arg! I'm not good with numbers! Curse you mathmatician programers!!

Raynre

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Linnard — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:54:59 MST

@Chrysalis: You need the fuse. It's closer than you think, but it's really easy to miss.

Linnard

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Chrysalis — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:52:08 MST

*SPOILERS* I'm stuck trying to figure out how to make the oxygen pump to work. I've already given the girl 2 soft drinks, inserted the oxygen canister into the pump, put the mask and tube over the girl's face, but now nothing seems to work.

Chrysalis

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sheeeillaaa — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:51:26 MST

The one with 3 spikes is at the bottom right hand side of the vending machine.

I managed to get through to giving her the yellow energy drink... did nothing. I think I should have given her the blue one...

sheeeillaaa

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Raynre — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:51:02 MST

Ugh... this game is kicking my ass...

Raynre

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Mizzuru — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:49:30 MST

I've already worked out what number gemini equals but i cant find the shape with three spikes on it...

Mizzuru

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Cirrus — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:45:58 MST

Gah I just finished that last mario mod and now you show me this ;_;

Cirrus

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fbdeluxe — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:35:25 MST

where is the 2nd block shape >:(

fbdeluxe

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marissa_melee — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:20:49 MST

Definitely worth playing. Thanks, Maggie.

marissa_melee

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Green-clad Gamer Dude — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:14:39 MST

Pretty interesting game. I wonder if it'll work on the Wii...

Green-clad Gamer Dude

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Ajh — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:11:17 MST

Guest House... Much love for the flash games that are actually kind of interesting. I think I spent over an hour on Guest House before I found that last coin and finished, and then proceeded to inflict it on friends and relatives.

Ajh

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Big_Adam — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:10:18 MST

Woo, new game to play. Need a rest from Tf2.

Thanks.

Big_Adam