NOTE: The IronSudoku Javascript works in the Firefox web browser and IE7.

IronSudoku is a great sudoku site based on Javascript and DHTML. It’s a lot of fun and allows you to “pencil in” little numbers that are possible for a box, usually green for possibles and red for impossibles. Left-click a box and a little grid pops up with “1″ through “9″ for you to choose your answer for that box or hold down shift and click the number to get a green penciled-in number, or alt click to get the red variant.

Enter User Javascript

Javascript is a scripting language that has been a part of web browsers for years and is only getting more popular. Most modern websites make use of at least some Javascript. An interesting side effect of deep browser support is that they will run a Javascript script from the address bar, given that it is preceded with the keyword “javascript:”. It will execute the script commands immediately. Given a script, you can simply copy it to the clipboard and then paste it into your browser’s address field.

It so happens that a Javascript has been floating around to auto-fill the greens in IronSudoku. A tuned version is below. You can simply copy the following script to the clipboard by selecting it with your mouse, pressing Control-C on Windows systems or Command-C on Macs. Then with IronSudoku open in another window or tab of your browser, clear the address bar (where it says http://www.ironsudoku.com) and press Control-V (or Command-V on Macs) to paste the script. Then hit Enter/Return.

Click “Continue Reading” to read more and get the scripts.

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Completing Flash Element TD, a game covered here a few days ago, is no great task; it might take several tries to get there, but blanketing the screen with combo rockets on level 39 does the trick and might leave you with a nice 13,000 points.

Strategy and Tips

But you will not get on the high score list, not even close. High scores depend on using compounding interest to build your fortunes. Once you have the gold, you can keep buying more lives, upgrading towers, whatever you need.

Walkthrough

Let’s walk through a basic route to 100K points or more. As you’ll see, the placement is not perfect and upgrades are not optimized. Had they been, the score would be better. Regardless, it will give you something on which to build your scores.

The screenshots were taken from a couple different runs through this walkthrough, so the exact placement of towers may shift from shot to shot, but the basic premise is the same. Tune to your liking.

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Flash Element TD (Tower Defense) is an free online Flash-based game where you, not surprisingly, are tasked with building towers to defend against a wide variety of invaders (called “creeps”). David Scott programmed this from scratch and used Adobe Photoshop and the Warcraft III level editor to create the graphics and sounds.

Let’s take a look at the game and some FETD strategies.

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An interesting twist on shoot-the-incoming-robots games, Word Shoot has you typing in the words under each robot that’s working its way towards you. If you let a robot get too close, it will start shooting at you. Other items appear on the screen occasionally, such as “detonate” and “fullhealth” which act as a smart bomb …

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OpenArena is a free (GPL) content package for the Quake III Arena engine (with which it comes packaged). Essentially you download and run this 72.8 MB installer and end up with a free first person shooter based on the QIIIA engine. The graphics are not too bad (for free that is) and it supports single …

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Winterbells is a wonderfully-addicting Flash game from Ferry Halim at Orisinal.
The goal is simple: Jump a white rabbit from bell to bell for an ever-increasing number of points per bell. Hop onto the occasional bird to immediately double your points. After a while you find that you are leaping across the screen between tiny little …

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Word Sandwich is a free online Flash game, the goal of which is to guess a five letter word. It tells you if your guess is alphabetically above or below the word (hence, the sandwich). You get more points for guessing in fewer tries, with a multiplier thrown in for how quick you come up …

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Mom’s Minivan has several printable games for trips, including Roadside Bingo and Car Bingo, Lines and Dots, Tic Tac Toe, Travel Scavenger Hunts, and the License Plate Game. These traditional travel games are not an in-car videogame console complete with LCD monitor, but can be just as much fun and a whole lot less expensive.
Other …

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On has released Grow Ver 1 in his popular series. Very simple but lovely and almost hypnotic. Be sure to watch for a while after solving it. As always, On’s work is amazing.
Also check out Grow Ver 2 and Ver 3 and the Grow RPG and Grow Cube.

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Geosense is an online game by Mark Rossen where you try to locate ten cities. You play alone or against others.
There are three maps, including the World, an Advanced World map, and the United States. You can also play in Scramble mode, where letters are slowly revealed and you click once you know what and …

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