Dawn of a New Day
- Brent Tompkins
- Jan 9, 2021
- 1 min read
Welcome to the brand new White Shoal Light Blog! In a effort to migrate off Facebook, we are launching the first official White Shoal Light blog. We will post to this new blog often and with much higher quality photos and videos than were supported on Facebook. As we continue to learn this new format, we will invite our fan base to participate in our posts by allowing comments and the ability to upload your own photos and tell of your experience at White Shoal. We are excited to share with you all the adventures that await at White Shoal Light!
When I can’t sleep, I open Connect Master. It takes my mind off everything because I’m busy comparing face cards for hidden traits. The goal is to group four characters together based on a shared detail. It could be their hat, their smile, their mood, or a combination vibe. I’m not great at it, but I always get a little dopamine hit when I solve one.
Someone online described Meowdoku as a queen puzzle with cats, and that's accurate. You mark impossible cells with Xs until each colored region has exactly one possible cat. The no-touch rule means even diagonal squares matter. I kept telling myself just one more, and then the evening was gone.
I wasn't expecting Colony Flow to be as deep as it is. It looks like ants walking to food, and then there are connected boxes and locks and keys. The game teaches you one tiny thing at a time, so by the time it gets hard, you're already invested.
Not every phone game survives more than a day on my home screen, but Bubble Word Jam did. The reason is the loop. You scan the words, spot possible categories, avoid wasting moves, and try to solve the whole board cleanly. It has that chill puzzle vibe, but it still gives your brain something crunchy to chew on.
Downloaded Game is hard after seeing someone fail the same level like 12 times in a video. I wanted to prove it was easy. Big mistake. This game is built around breaking normal phone game rules, so tapping everything is usually the worst plan. You have to read the words, move UI stuff, rotate the phone, and sometimes just chill.