{"id":842,"date":"2014-03-18T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/wordpress\/autisticme\/?p=842"},"modified":"2023-11-26T16:33:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T22:33:24","slug":"simple-games-relax-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/2014\/03\/18\/simple-games-relax-the-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Games Relax the Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Solebon<\/strong><\/em> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.solebon.com\/\">http:\/\/www.solebon.com<\/a>] was the best solitaire game for the Palm OS. When I migrated to an iPod Touch, I was thrilled when Solebon was ported to my new PDA platform. Now, with Solebon on my iPhone and iPad, I play several games a day. My favorites remain the traditional Klondike games (deal one or three) and Free Cell. Think back to Windows 3 and classic <em><strong>Burning Monkey Solitaire<\/strong><\/em> on the old Mac System 7, and that&#8217;s about all the complexity I want in a game.<\/p>\n<p>I also play <em><strong>Columns<\/strong><\/em>, <em>Collapse<\/em>, <em>Tetris<\/em>, <em><strong>Lemmings<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Supaplex<\/strong><\/em>, and <em><strong>Pipe Dream<\/strong><\/em> to relax. I like the simple puzzle games that I can start and stop. Sure, there are nights for chess and maybe Scrabble, but for the most part I like quick, five-minute breaks from the routine. Puzzle games clear my head so I can get back to work. The breaks help.<\/p>\n<p>The appeal of realistic first-person games escapes me. I would rather play Pac-Man any day.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone else enjoy the classic games as a way to relax? I&#8217;d like to imagine <em><strong>Tetris<\/strong><\/em> is being played somewhere, by someone, every minute of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solebon [http:\/\/www.solebon.com] was the best solitaire game for the Palm OS. When I migrated to an iPod Touch, I was thrilled when Solebon was ported to my new PDA platform. Now, with Solebon on my iPhone and iPad, I play several games a day. My favorites remain the traditional Klondike&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/2014\/03\/18\/simple-games-relax-the-mind\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Simple Games Relax the Mind<\/span> <i class=\"fas fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,392,515,657,707,751],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-arcade-games","tag-ios","tag-palmos","tag-solitaire","tag-tetris","tag-video-games","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/12\/Podcast-HD-1920x1080-comp-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfivLC-dA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3804,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/3804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}