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We have a reader submission this week, and it's a doozy! This could very well waste your entire long weekend.  Andrew turned me on to Seventh Sense – Lone Wolf. It's an online version of the Lone Wolf choose your own adventure books of my childhood.

If you don't remember Lone Wolf, the idea of the books was to take a standard choose your own adventure & add random combat. Some pages would cause you to fight monsters or gain items or cast spells. It required some mild record keeping, and cheating was rampant ("why yes, I do still have that fireball spell!") They (and the earlier (?) Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks were a revelation to me. Much better than the vanilla choose your own adventures.

This download has almost 20 books you can play. It may be the most dangerous Friday Time Waster ever. You have been warned. Thanks again Andrew! And feel to recommend Friday Time Wasters in the Hat's Forum.

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4 Comments

4 Comments

  1. Rliyen  •  Sep 3, 2010 @2:35 pm

    Oh, man. I still have mine…

  2. matt  •  Sep 5, 2010 @8:32 am

    i remember these!!

  3. Bruce  •  Sep 6, 2010 @2:10 am

    While axe specialty will seem like a good idea when you first start out – go with the Sword.

  4. Professor Coldheart  •  Sep 7, 2010 @12:41 pm

    PROTIP: Leave Lord Rhygar to fend for himself. Trust me.