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Flash Game 'Factory Balls, the Christmas Edition' Is Puzzlingly Ornamental

by Ben Deitz on December 19, 2010 at 06:30 PM

Factory Balls
Ah, Christmas. A time of year to come together, rejoice, and slink away from the family to drown yourself in gaming mania. Why should the holidays put a damper on our playing? If anything, this is the perfect time of year to hunker down with a mug of cocoa, a festive sweater, and our picks of great yuletide-themed games.

'Factory Balls, the Christmas Edition' is a great little puzzler that's as addictive as it is challenging. Your goal is to decorate a Christmas tree with a variety of multi-colored ornaments. Each level presents you with an ornament whose designs and coloration you must recreate upon a blank ball. You do this by applying a variety of holiday-themed tools, such as earmuffs and Santa hats, in order to block certain parts of your ball. Then, you dump the ornament into an appropriate paint bucket, and repeat until the pattern is complete, which isn't nearly as easy as it sounds. You'll need to figure out which tools will yield the proper results, as well as how to combine them to create shapes that aren't immediately obvious. This quickly becomes a complex task that requires a good amount of forethought and planning, as starting with the wrong color will ruin the whole design. Nevertheless, we had a hard time putting this one down, and that's as good an indication of a puzzler's merit as any.

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