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Listlessly flicking through websites at work while you're supposed to be parsing a JPEG? Lee Hall describes a much more enjoyable way to waste your company's time
Die Wagenschenke
Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Us neither. Luckily, despite being almost entirely in German, this online game only requires a grasp of the language we all understand - abject drunkenness.
Your mission here is to guide a pissed-up youth down the straight and narrow, using minimal movements of your mouse to keep him upright. The more glug he imbibes, the more preposterous his inebriated swagger becomes.
Over-compensation is your greatest enemy in a game that requires a deftness of touch the drunk can only dream of. Except they never would, ’cause they’re too busy dreaming of bathing in cream and kissing that Russian tennis champion.
Minilympics
Oh the irony. Sitting at your PC, you stare over your quivering gut at the monitor and being to waggle your fingers in a disgraceful parody of the athletic excellence of our Olympic heroes…
Yes, it’s a chance to relive the glory of our sailors and, erm, equestrians in a festival-of-sport sim. Ah… if only wasting time was an Olympic sport, b+w would take the team gold, that’s provided we could get off our arses to enter.
Minilympics is not so much a poor man’s Olympiad as an indictment on our own inactivity. Or is it is an amusing nine-event mini-Olympics reminiscent of the great Daley Thompson’s Decathlon? YOU DECIDE.
Sim Girls
Oh mama, we have ourselves a winner. Styled as ‘the original net dating simulator’, this game invites you to chose your male character and then woo some ladeez. Be a drug dealer and you benefit from great strength, whereas the salesman possesses high charm.

Being a Japanese game your quest for love doesn’t start in the local bars, but in the local High School, where the teachers look like dominatrices and the students flaunt the school uniform regulations with unnerving results.
This game should probably be illegal. And maybe it is.
Email Lee your favourite workshy sites at
lee.hall@blackandwhitemagazine.co.uk. You don't win anything, but your mates will think you're cool.