Playing videogames has always been a big passion of mine.  I tend to play more strategy/first person shooter games, a fav being the ever popular Tom Clancy’s series but nonetheless when i’m browsing online I give into the urge to click on bright colored buttons screaming “coffee break” like the one featured in the above screen shot.   

There has been a huge wave of train-your-brain games out on the market, Nintendo BrainAge making the biggest boom.  What’s most interesting about this online crossword puzzle is its built in cheat sheet.  The split screen feature has a search bar on the bottom half of the webpage that pulls up the most relevant websites for you to dig around and find an answer when you’re stumped.  If you happen to be to lazy to do the homework than you might prefer the “give up” option which feeds you the answer in one click costing you a lower score.   

While I admit, crossword puzzles are not necessarily my thing I do enjoy this feature (and i’m sure they enjoy the additional time users spend searching on their site vs. going to google - yay ad revenue).  Besides, I always felt a little guilty opening up another window to search for the correct answer.     

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