the answer

i know you have all been waiting with baited breath as to whether chuzzle is a game of skill or not. so i have been performing further studies. the answer is that chuzzle is a game of no skill. after having played many, many hours of it, i don't think it's even a game with a point. i could answer these questions conclusively, but i have been unable to find an explanation of the scoring procedure. but so far as i can tell, there are no limitations. it's not like you need to move quickly, and it's not like making fewer moves is better. pretty indicative of a game involving no skill. and the levels don't get harder as you advance. and the mops appear out of nowhere, meaning that sometimes you'll have really big explosions of mops, but you won't have been able to plan for that b/c it is completely arbitrary based on what fell out of the sky. and it only ends when there are no more moves to make. which seems to be pretty random too, based on how little control you have over what is on the screen. generally one realizes she has been playing for 6 hours and it is now 3am and she has finals to study for and she had better turn off her computer. or on the one or two occassions on which the computer has told her that her game is over, there is no sense of disappointment. b/c in no way is this a personal shortcoming about your chuzzle skills. really, it's more like, "thank god."

which brings me to another point. it is really way to easy to just click the button that says, "yes, i'll play again and waste more time." i think you should have to go thru a maze or something b/f they let you do that.

oh, another point. the little "mops" may not be mops. they kinda look different at different times. they're not different, but i see different things. now they look like something embroidered on a shirt. i can't explain that, but if you saw them, and looked at them for a while, you would know what i was talking about.

you think i would quit playing, but i think i'll go play another game now. i'm taking today to "study at home." it's going to be trouble.