Sometimes the simplest of things prove to be the most addictive. I came across The Eyeballing Game last night and I played it a lot longer than I expected. When I woke up this morning I was stoked to see if my skills were sharper in the morning (they’re not).
This is an extremely simple game that exercises your perception skills using simple geometry tests. There are 7 tests that you perform sequentially, and you do these 7 tests for 3 iterations (that’s 21 total tests, Aggro). Once completed you get a score based on a bell curve. It shows you where on the bell curve you scored, which is a nice touch for a math-skills related game.
The 7 tests are as follows:
- Parallelogram - For this test, you are tasked with forming a perfect parallelogram. Two sides of the shape cannot be moved; you need to decide where the other two lines should lie in order to form the required shape. Once you place the lines, it will visually show you where the lines were supposed to be and informs you of how many units you were off by.
- Midpoint - The goal of this test is to determine the midpoint between two dots. You drag a box around to place the midpoint.
- Bisect angle - Can you split a given angle into two exact halves? I hope so because you’ll have to do just that in this test.
- Triangle center - Now you get to guess where the point that is equidistant to all edges of a triangle can be found (It’s harder than it looks; this one is currently my weak-spot).
- Circle center - Same idea as the above Triangle test, only with a circle this time. This one is trickier than I expected.
- Right angle - You have to place a line so that it is perpendicular to a given line on the screen.
- Convergence - This one will make you cross-eyed. You have three arrows pointing to a single point of convergence… only you are the one that needs to guess where that point is located.
Once you’ve done all of these tests 3 times you will be presented with a final score which is displayed visually on a bell curve. You can enter your name for your score, and you’ll see the current list of high-scorers as well. I cannot seem to crack my score of 3.86… but I’m certainly going to try.
This is not a very complicated game, and it’s got minimalist graphics, but it does require pure skills to score well. I don’t know why I find it so addictive, but I’m going to take another whack at besting my score! Today I’ll make my high school math teachers proud!
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3.78 for my first try. I’m gonna try and do more of these when I have the time. Heheh, maybe after going through this test several times I’ll finally be able to draw a perfect circle like da Vinci.
Gah! I’ve not beat my 3.86!
Only 1 try and you got 3.78?
And it’s not like I have not tried either… oof! I must really be challenged!
Upgraded to 2.3 now
The parallelogram is the hardest one, the angles were easiest. The convergence isn’t too tricky as long as you get one line right and slide it along the path until you align with the other two lines.
Hardware may play a role as well, if your mouse is too or not sensitive enough you may have trouble trying to pinpoint the locations accurately. A large flat screen monitor also helps, but you have to make sure you’re not staring at it too closely.
…and obviously you can cheat if you have a flat screen and a protractor. Just to see how much of a difference it would make I was able to lower down the score to 1.5.
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