Frenzic

I'm not sure if I should thank meriko or curse her for introducing me to Frenzic, a fast-paced puzzle game. It's tempting to mention the Tetris-like quality of placing wedges into circles, but that's a bit glib. You get a colored wedge as your current piece, and you have to place it into one of five circular "bays" within a period of time. You can't rotate the wedge, so it goes in at whatever angle it starts as. If it's pointing straight down, you have to find a bay with an empty slot at the very top of the circle. Put six wedges into a bay, and the bay clears out. Put six wedges of the same color into a bay, and you get lots of game love, often in the form of goodies that can double your score, slow down time, or empty out every bay.

The game has all the qualities of a good addiction: the time to make a decision is short, the options are few, and you always feel as if you could do better with just one more try.

Don't bother with the site if you've got a Windows machine. This is for Mac heads only.