For Facebook enthusiasts out there, the online game "Who Has The Biggest Brain" is well known, since it attracts over 50000 players every day. It is beautifully designed by PlayFish, featuring eight mind-intriguing games to keep you busy for endless hours. The more you play the better you learn its secrets, improve your score and compete with your friends (or the world).
Nevertheless, any game of this kind is susceptible to design flaws. No matter how well designed the graphics are or the music is composed, there are some details that have not been paid much attention to. Don't think about any advanced code reverse engineering, key cheats and the like.
Two out of the eight mini-games have to do with arithmetic calculations. Now think as if you had a 'robot' that can do these calculations instead of you. I am taking about a robot that can read your computer screen and do the math. It will certainly do it much faster than you (and it doesn't have to be a traditional mechanical one).
You can download this 'Bot' from here and get the source from here as well (Delphi 7). To play you have to turn off font edge smoothing of Windows (XP, Vista) and use the FireFox browser. To compile you will need some free components that you can find on Torry.net (PBEditPack, CalcExpress).
I think that I've had enough fun with my friends :) You can play with it as long as you don't pose problems to the world scoring table, which I did and I apologize. I really appreciate the friendly attitude of the software company about my 'abnormal account activity' shown above. Now I am sure that they will work it out and further enhance this very enjoying game.
Just as Who Has The Biggest Brain? is approaching the two million installs mark on Facebook, you might have noticed our first steps into in-game advertising, courtesy of Google.
In the US that means short rich media (ie, video) ads, while in other parts of the world it means static images or text. The ads are placed at the end of the game, just before you start another session - an “interstitial” in industry speak. Why? We believe in giving players YouTube-like instant access to game play rather than forcing people to sit through an ad before they can play or having a set of distracting banners around the game. Rich media ads at the end of the game however provide a nice short break before the next intense gaming session to beat your friend’s score. Plus we think they’re pretty cool too!
These are early days - we’re still experimenting and considering different ways of allowing for sponsorship in social games which are both efficient for advertisers and enjoyable from an user-experience standpoint.
There are 200 standard calculation questions in the "missing number" part. You should play some games only for practice, and note down what you see on your screen. Just like you know 3x5=15. This will make you reach up to 1000 points in this section.
NEW RELEASE v1.6.0 We have just released version 1.6.0. Here is a summary of the main changes: - Added multi-lang support, the game can now be played in English, German, French and Spanish. - Re-added sushi shape icons in weights and shape order minigames - Updated the burger and fries shape group. It's now healthier and meatless. - Removed "rpcok" debug message - New random generator for the math
There's more fun here : a maximum of 60 correct answers (1200 points). is allowed Or a timer of 1000 msec if you are SO lazy :)
But there's even more now ! You can download the version 1.3 from here and try out the Icon Order Minigame as well. Here things are not SO automatic and you have to use your eye-matching abilities (but not your memory). No more details are necessary, it's easy to figure it out for yourselves.
In the first 25 days post-launch, 50,000 of you installed Who Has The Biggest Brain? It only took another 14 days to pass the 100,000 installs mark. Today, we also passed another milestone: 100,000 game plays a day. To put this in perspective, that’s almost 300 man days of brain training happening every day. In addition, we have also been ranked 19th most active app in the Facebook directory, just below Scrabulous (17th most active). We try to adopt an ethical distribution strategy (eg no forced invite, no spam) and your enthusiastic feedback is really encouraging. Let’s see how long it will take to reach 200,000 installs. Leave your guess in the comments and stay tuned for some fun new features coming your way real soon. Happy brain training!
This game’s cute style, animation, graphics, music and sound not only add to the fun… they quickly demonstrate a Facebook application’s potential. Who Has The Biggest Brain? easily sets itself apart from the majority of Facebook apps that look like (and probably were) developed by high school kids.
They throw a few fun little brain tests at you, such as math or memory… You’re given a time limit and you must answer the questions as quickly as possible.
That might not sound like much fun, but they way they do it… it is fun — a lot of fun.
At the end of the game your results will be tallied up and your score will be compared to your friends.
Hrmm… I think I socred somewhere around “Neanderthal”. BRB, I’m gonna have to go play some more…
Are you ready to literally hack your mind and achieve scores above 2500 in this brain game? Of course few of your friends are gonna beat you.
Let's see. First of all, you have to learn to think without verbalizing your thoughts. It might sound like intuition in the beginning but your mind is far more quick than what you've ever imagined. What slows it down is the talk-speech thinking. Learn to think without it and see what happens!
That might not sound like much fun, but they way they do it… it is fun — a lot of fun.
