Feel Better About Public Phones with Escape the Phone Booth

Keep Trying and You May Get Somewhere

I had never really been a fan of public telephones (who has?). I guess that was why I was so thrilled to get my mobile phone as a present from my parents a few years ago for Christmas. But my buddy told me that there was a fun game on line that I could play that involved public phones and it had none of the stress of real public phones. She said I might enjoy it as it required a lot of brain power and had nothing really to do with using a public phone. So I decided to give it a try. Clearly Escape the Phone Booth has definitely nothing to do with making a phone call in public and much more to do with using brain power to try and figure out how to make a phone call, and, well, as the title suggests, Escape the Phone Booth.

Lose Control With Escape the Phone Booth

What is so frustrating (and yet at the same time, so exciting) about Escape the Phone Booth is that there is absolutely no predictability to the game. Players find themselves in different locations and they do not know where they are or what has happened. For people who thrive on predictability, this is a pretty good way of trying to get over that and stop trying to be such a control freak. The faster one manages to escape their new location, the better off they will be in this game and the more points they will accrue. So I found that the more often I played Escape the Phone Booth, the better I did. And I listened carefully to the hint in the game that I should click around the screen as much as possible. The more I clicked, the more scenes I saw and thus the faster I moved. I quite like Escape the Phone Booth (especially the voice that comes out of the phone booth telling me things like "please pay the 25 cents"; it sounds really real) and I like the fact that it challenges the part of the brain I do not like to use so often due to its unpredictability.

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Impact Pool Gives Me Insight Into Real Pool

Test Out Enjoyment of Pool With Impact Pool

I learnt to play real Pool before I got into Impact Pool. But the truth is, I was never much good at real Pool. My boyfriend Dave was almost a pro, and so a lot of our dating centered around pool competitions so I really wanted to be able to join in. He was always very encouraging, but I felt like unless I could compete at least on some level, I would be missing out. And so when I discovered Impact Pool on line I decided to give it a try, figuring that I might learn something along the way. I loved it!

Impact Pool involves the same principle as real pool (you have to get all the different colored balls in to their pockets). The short time allocated to do this (just a minute and a half) makes the game very exciting and helps you focus more. If you shoot a ball in to an incorrect pocket however, you get penalized for it (i.e., any ball that you have already shot successfully in that pocket will be placed back on the table!). The good news is however, that there are often bonus balls which can be helpful (but these are reduced with every foul you make).

Get a Feel For Real Pool Playing Impact Pool

The graphics on this game are really awesome as the balls look EXACTLY like real pool balls. Gaining mouse control of the balls to control them and shoot them in to their respective holes (orange, blue, yellow or pink - on each of the four corners) was really hard for me at first, but after a few attempts, I managed to get to the third level. At first, I was losing all my bonus points and I did shoot a number of balls in their wrong pockets, but I found that the more I practiced, the better I did. And I found that it didn't DIRECTLY help when playing pool with my boyfriend, but it did INDIRECTLY help as I had gained a lot of confidence in my play.

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