Pimping "Peekaboom"

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Five reasons I've become addicted to Peekaboom in less than twenty-four hourss:

1. You're playing with someone, rather than against them.



2. You're playing with an actual, living person; even if you're completely annonymous to each other, it does make a difference.



3. The challenge is all about communication, and that warms the cockles of my wee little heart.



4. The challenge is to get the other person to type a specific word by clicking on picture, and revealing it bit by bit. So you have to figure out how much to focus on the specifics, and how much to focus on the surrounding context. You can also give hints, and have to decide what kind of hints are the best to give (and or decide if it is even possible to make a certain idea clear with a particular image -- a few times, it hasn't been). I am certain that, in the long run, this will help me become a better writer.



5. I am being assured that just playing the game is helping computer geeks build better A.I.. And knowing that I am helping also warms the cockles of my geeky little heart.

{Eta: I was playing the game, just now, and the last image popped up: And it was Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor :::Glees::: But the word I was supposed to get from my partner was "Movie," which was kind of sad, because I had to pass. There was nothing about "movie" in the image itself. It was probably an image from a fanpage, and was illustrating a fanvid, or something. If the word were "Bowtie" or "recorder" or "smile" or "clock," or something, I could have clicked away happily, and gotten the right answer (probably)}