At my job, we have neither signal nor wifi in certain places (bathroom in the basement). So would appreciate tips on apps to kill five minutes.
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I’ll be the old stodger voice and mention that taking 5 minutes from time to time to not be stimulated is good for mental health, and apparently creativity too.
… And then I’ll put in my vote for Simon Tatham’s puzzle collection. (In F-droid as Puzzles, app by Chris Boyle)
Just a nice collection of quick, simple puzzles. A perfect time killer. It’s a staple that I’ve got on all the devices in my old 2000s PDA collection since it was also built for Windows Mobile and PalmOS.
It was WHAT? Time to dust off my HP Jornadas
You can download full crosswords on the NYT Games app!
This is the absolute goat of logic puzzle games. It has all of them offline, free, with multiple difficulties. Simon Tatham’s Puzzles
Tatham’s puzzles are great!
Also in this vein, PySol FC has an exstensive library of solitaire card and tile games. Definitely worth checking out.
If you like chess puzzles: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/jwtc.android.chess/
It’s a full-featured chess app, but what’s nice about it is that it’s also got a large amount of short chess puzzles that are available offline (unlike lichess).
- Vampire Survivors
- Data wing
- Antimine
Shattered Pixel Dungeon
Warning: HIGHLY addictive.
Just won the game like a minute ago
How?? Pixel dungeon is like 99% RNG
Once you get the hang of it, you can win like 95% of the games.
In the first ten levels, starve yourself and only eat at 30% hp.
Use corners and other obstacles to your advantage to get sneak-attacks. Don’t equip any unidentified equipment if possible - especially if it is suspiciously high level for the area. It is probably cursed. Save up your upgrade scrolls until you find some tier 4 or 5 weapons and armor. If you’re a mage, just dump them in your wand of fire from lvl 1 with no regrets.
Learn how the bosses attack. The slime hits really hard after charging, so figure out how to dodge or get out of range.
I little too specific but when I have spare time I use AnkiDroid to memorize kanji.
Mindustry
5 minutes, not 5 hours, lol, love this game but deffo is a quick way to lose an hour
You’re probably right. I was comparing it to Factorio.
Would you ever recommend Factorio to someone who asked for a good 5 minute game!? One of my favorite games, but doesn’t fit the bill for me
I have ebooks on my phone that I read when I can’t get Internet.
What apps do you use to read your ebooks?
Libby for books from the library. Moon reader for other epubs.
Koreader on FDroid.
Putting in my vote for Librera reader here. Also on f-droid
