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Web Zen: Mind Games Zen

Xeni Jardin at 5:38 pm Thu, Nov 6, 2008

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Image above: One of 12 full-page engravings from The Anatomy of the Brain Explained in a Series of Engravings, by Charles Bell (1802). (via neurophilosophy.)

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • Anonymous

    http://www.corwin.ca/gridlock/

    Here’s hours and hours of mind bending enjoyment.

  • fltndboat

    Sigh. Wish it not named zen.

  • mriles

    OMG! I love the Daymare town episodes! Good pick

  • Teej

    Daymare Town. Fun stuff. Like Myst.

  • w000t

    Here’s a good web mind game I’ve enjoyed recently:
    Blocks with letters on

  • lerevdr

    Blessed Boingers,

    I was *delighted* to discover Coign of Vantage
    and, indeed, spent *hours* this afternoon
    plumbing its intricacies.

    ‘Tis truly wunnerful!

    As I reported [plug] http://lerevdr.wordpress.com/2008/11/09/best-new-time-wastan-thang [/plug] I have invented a MetaGameâ„¢ -

    use your mouse to keep the image on the front page static

    It’s harder
    and with no real reward -
    kinda like kids playing with the box
    rather than the toy…

    Blessings,

    Le Rev Dr