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What do you do while you wait for the guillotine?

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What do you do while you wait your turn at the guillotine?

You play solitaire, lots of it.

These games were first played by the French nobel prisoners imprisoned in the Bastille while they waited for the guillotine. Game boards were drawn in the dirt and pebbles served as tokens. Later sailors passed the time with these puzzles as they sailed off in search of new adventures.

FEATURES
- Four unique puzzle boards to solve
- Sound on / off button
- Keep score, once you can solve the puzzles, try to do so in fewer moves.
- Reset button lets you set up a fresh board instantly

Download the Prisoner’s Puzzles and you can play them on your iPhone.

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Written by timestocome

November 10th, 2009 at 8:19 am

Posted in iPhone Apps

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Cool SciFi and Horror Podcasts I’ve been listening to

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X Minux One Old sci-fi radio show now available on mp3.

Scott Sigler Several podcasts of his books, good old smash ‘em up, shoot ‘em up science fiction.

JC Hutchins Series of 7th Son science fiction novels of the secret government conspiracy type.

Escape Pod Science fiction shorts

Pseudopod Horror shorts

Craphound Light science fiction as social commentary

Written by timestocome

November 4th, 2009 at 9:32 pm

Posted in Geekiness

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