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I have my little cousins visiting us here for the vacation. We do go out in the evening and play on ground, but the whole morning is being spent with phone & tablets. 
It hurts to see them playing some weird Shooting game. "Dino hunter", "Deer hunter", WTF! The house is full of shooting noise.
And the kids are not interested to play AOE-II on LAN with me (That's the only game I have  ). It looks so boring for them.
1.Do you recommend any worthy games with good , smooth game play? that demands some brains to play?
2.And is there any worthy multiplayer games for phones?
(Not like Warcraft & other over crowded , Bulky ones, I mean simpler games, may be Angry birds-sized or similar types, but for multi-player)
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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My favourite phone game is sudoku, it's a good puzzle game and it does not just have to involve one person.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Vunic wrote: 1.Do you recommend any worthy games with good , smooth game play? that demands some brains to play?
Here are some I have played and liked:
- Infinity Loop
- Shadowmatic
- Agar.io (multiplayer, online)
- Bloxorz
- Where's my water?
- Brain it on
- Cuboid
- Plants vs Zombies
- Survive - Wilderness Survival
Vunic wrote: 2.And is there any worthy multiplayer games for phones?
Most multiplayer games I have seen appear to be either rigged or with so much lag that it will not be a good experience. There are some good multiplayer games out there but they are big ones.
If you want them to walk around outside with phones Ingress is pretty neat.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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If you're willing to buy, try Limbo, Badland or Braid.
I am not the one who knocks. I never knock.
In fact, I hate knocking.
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Yes, and it's called DOOM3. Oh, wait. You wanted something contemporary, so how about umm... counter-strike? 
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The Lucasart games seem to be quite charming, but to be honest I am not that kind of gamer myself.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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No need:
1. google or ask some kids what are the "hot" games at the moment
2. when the kids come tell them you have those games on your 'spare' phone...
... but first they have to find that phone.
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Thanks for the replies.
Will check the games suggested.
Meanwhile, I picked a game called Tank Battle - Wifi. It was okay for two players. Just 30+MB, does the job! but with a pile of bugs. :P
Also check this one:
Android Multiplayer Games LAN Bluetooth WiFi Direct Offline[^]
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
modified 25-May-18 7:55am.
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Vunic wrote: 1.Do you recommend any worthy games with good , smooth game play? that demands some brains to play?
Stardew Valley 
Vunic wrote: 2.And is there any worthy multiplayer games for phones?
That pikachu-game where you go outside and hunt animals by throwing balls at them?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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So I'm sure everyone else out there is getting tons of email about GDPR updates.
Numerous companies telling you that their security policies have been updated.
The very odd (spelled s-t-u-p-i-d) thing is that these big companies add links in the email so I can check. I do not click links in email.
Check out this one from StackOverflow that contains buttons for me to click:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/WYmIM.png^
General Safety Principle
I thought the general safety principle was :
1. Never click a link in an email.
2. Always go to the site by navigating in your browser and responding that way.
These companies send the email and want me to click a link but I won't.
The 2nd Stupid Part
So I go to the site and the company makes it extremely difficult to find a place to respond since I haven't clicked their link. 
It's really annoying. And stupid. 
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I always open emails from unknown entities, and I click on all the links, and provide all information requested of me.
I don't see what the big deal is, really. They are just trying to be helpful.
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I have a link for you...Because I enjoy helping others (give their $$$ to me).
Please click this link to take our helpful and generous survey which will make your life much better.
ThisWillTransferAllYourMoneyToMe.com*
*I assume no responsibility if that URL is real.
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I have only negative money. You're welcome to it.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: I have only negative money. You're welcome to it.
Oh, Nega-Coin a Bitcoin derivative, you say?
Where do I invest? Here, please take all my money. Do you have a link that runs a negacoin miner in my browser without me knowing? Please providz da linkz fast. I know dis will be whut make me riches.
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Quote: Heal the world
Make it a better place
For you and for me
And the entire human race
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Yes, sometimes. It lead me to this post. 
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raddevus wrote: So I go to the site and the company makes it extremely difficult to find a place to respond since I haven't clicked their link
That's becoming a general trend, comapanies hiding their email address.
They want you to call the help line, and get stuck in a queue for a long time (with the usual sh*t muzac and "your call is important"), only to talk to somebody in a completely different country with no authority to accept your feedback anyway.
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I don't really understand your general safety principle. Do you use an e-mail program that doesn't show where a link goes on hover? If you can see that the link points to the expected domain, in this case stackoverflow.com, is there any reason to trust it less than if you find the link on their page after having manually typed stackoverflow.com in your browser? Or do you not click on links in general?
modified 13-Sep-18 21:01pm.
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Yeah it’s a good point that if you see the link then you should know where it goes.
It’s just more about the fact that all these GDPR email are coming suddenly and unexpectedly.
If I request an email like signing up for it from CP then I figure the links are ok.
Also, I often get email from sites that want me to take a survey -- my bank has done this -- and then the link is from a completely different site (the survey site I guess).
So since I do not know I have trained myself to simply not click any email links.
I usually go to the site and try to search for the thing they wanted me to check out, but they often make that impossible to do.
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Yup. Every modern browser shows the link destination on status bar. And we can always right click and copy link to have a better look if it's leads to a trustworthy website.
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As the previous person said, links are fine as long as you can tell where it is going.
Surely you click on password reset links, right?
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Yeah it’s a good point that if you see the link then you should know where it goes.
It’s just more about the fact that all these GDPR email are coming suddenly.
Of course an email reset email you have recently requested and are expecting it. These other ones come randomly and expect you to click a link.
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011111100010 wrote: Surely you click on password reset links, right?
Very rarely these days.
Usually, the email has a code to type into a web page you've already seen.
Or better, the code is sent via SMS to my phone.
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