Fugdale’s Funhouse

Object: Answer the question based on how you think other buzzdash users would answer.

Review: It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed a quiz game on this site (in fact it’s been a while since I’ve reviewed any game on this site). So here’s a fun quiz game from the folks at Buzzdash.com.

First select one of the categories for your quiz. You can choose from several subcategories within Entertainment, Sports, News & Politics, Business & Finance and Other. After selecting your area of expertise, a 15-question quiz will start. For each question you will get several multiple choice answers to choose from. The questions don’t ask about facts, rather, they ask about matters of opinion. For example, the game may ask you “Which of the following movies is your favorite?” You must answer how you think the majority of other players have already answered. So basically, don’t necessarily want to answer how you normally would, but rather, what you think the collective group of users have chosen as the most popular answer. After you answer each question, you will get a point if you chose the most popular answer others have given. You will also get to see the percentages chosen for all the other answers.

This fun quiz gives a little perspective on how others in the world think about things. Most of the time if you just follow your instincts, you’ll get the correct answers easily, unless you have totally lost touch with the pulse of the world. Give it a shot. The interesting questions often have illuminating answers at times. Although the quiz creates a fun diversion, the lack of bells and whistles and compelling game-play lost a few points from me, but you should still have some fun, especially if you enjoy second guessing what others have to say.

Object: Press the spacebar as many times as you can in the allotted time. Then try to beat your score.

Review: I figure it’s time to give the old brain a rest and throw up another time killer. These sorts of games don’t require much thought or skill, just do one simple task and then do it again and again until you get tired and move on to something else. In this game you simply choose a time frame (5, 10, or 20 seconds). And then start hitting the spacebar as fast as you can. The application counts how many times you hit it and then displays a comical graphic with your score (this is the cutest element in the game, by the way).

Then you can try again and try to beat your own score. There ain’t much more to report than that. So next time you have a little time to kill at work and your co-workers aren’t around to hear you slapping your keypad repeatedly, give this little test of speed a try. Who knows, you might end up the spacebar slapping champion of the world and win a million dollars and get to meet Ryan Seacrest.

Object: Try to answer all the questions correctly with only 5 wrong answers.

Review: The folks at Splapp-me-do and Deviant Art have done it again! Here’s their whacked out sequel to their hugely popular Impossible Quiz. This one has at least 114 questions (I haven’t made it to the end yet).

If you haven’t played the original, I highly recommend it. But you can do either quiz first with no problem. Quiz #2 is packed with tricky questions, that will test your wits, speed, and skill. The majority of the questions are multiple choice. However, the answers given aren’t always what you are looking for. Most of the questions require you to think outside the box a little or at least to have a corny sense of humor and a little pop-culture knowledge. Some questions require you to think fast in order to answer before a bomb explodes and ruins your game.

This version has a few improvements over the first quiz. The graphics seem a little more slick (even though they still have that sloppy hand-drawn look). You are given 3 skip passes throughout the game and unlike the first version, you can actually use them on any question. In addition you also may see 3 different bomb-defusers which open their eyes when a bomb appears on screen allowing you to kill the countdown and think a little.

In addition, I’ve noticed that several of the questions have multiple version, which means each time you take the quiz, you might get a different question than you were expecting. This keeps gamers on their toes, you can’t just learn a sequence of answers and repeat them like you could in the first quiz. And let me tell you, this one is tough. You will most likely die several hundred deaths on your way to glory. But it’s a heck of a lot of fun trying.