Kongregate

Have you ever been bored in class? Now we have got a solution for you. You can play a different variety of games on Kongregate.

Kongregate is a site where you can play free games. You can create an account and the site saves your scores. It doesn’t matter on which computer you play. And that’s easy when you have to switch classes and need to play on a different computer.

You can play different kinds of games. For example you can play a shooter or an adventure game. But there are far more different genres like action, multiplayer, strategy and puzzle.

Kongregate also brings you a big variety of achievements on all kinds of games. Only the games which people liked best get some achievements to conquer. An achievement is an extra goal to achieve in game. Of course not all achievements compare to each other in terms of difficulty. You have easy, medium, hard and impossible achievements. An easy achievement only gives you five points, whereas a medium achievement already gives you fifteen points. A hard achievement rewards you with an amount of thirty points and though impossible achievements are rare, they do exist and give you a grand total of sixty points. But be warned: Kongregate is not responsible for any keyboard or mouse damage that will occur while attempting impossible achievements!

Depending on the amount of points you have in total you will be given a level. The amount of points you need to go to the next level increases when you are on a higher with each level. The highest possible level is sixty-five. And there are plenty of nerds who made it to level sixty-five.

Now you know what Kongregate is. We use it mostly as a tool against boredom during different computer lessons. Now I hear you thinking: what does this have to do with mathematics and applications? The answer is simple. Lots of games include simple puzzles and during projects we need to solve big puzzles. With the simple puzzles you create a thinking pattern which helps you with big puzzles. And luckily for us, it is kind of fun to do.

That’s it for today. Let’s all make an account on Kongregate and earn some achievements and start your quest to the godlike level of sixty-five.

Rory Tans, Ralf Geelen