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Control the Weather in New Web Game

by Thomas Houston on May 2, 2009 at 02:42 PM

In case you haven't blown your weekend yet by diving into the ADD-wonderland that is the Internet, we recommend you check out 'Effing Hail,' a free online flash game.

The concept is simple enough: Move a cursor with the mouse, and click down to control the wind. A continuous stream of hail falls from the sky, and these lumps of ice will grow larger (and harder to control) as you balance them underneath a cushion of wind in the sky. Release the mouse and the hail will fall to the ground.

The object? Gain points by guiding your (hopefully) enormous piece of hail towards the unsuspecting buildings below. Keep your headphones on because the sleazy electro-Europop beats in the background feel as though they're essential to gameplay, or so we've discovered after wasting an hour pummeling edifices great and small.

Plus, you don't want anyone in the office knowing what you're really doing.
[Effing Hail via Kottke.org]

Tags: fun, hail, timewasters, top, weather

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