Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34343471-20190718183419/@comment-37927318-20190720172422

Not bada** at all! Lucky is more like it. My brain seems to somehow 'know' when time is short and look at the clock in time to make decision for tool use if necessary - this works everywhere quite well except TB & HL where sometimes the frustration overwhelms this instinct. My mind also has alsways had a built in 'clock' which causes me to wake up just before the alarm goes off (no matter what condition or how little sleep!) and I wake up when there is bad JUJU in the area too - usually outside or at my druggie neighbors house. In my early playing days I mostly heard that da#n countdown noise with HL & TB and it maximized my already likely frustration and would take me over the edge! I eventually devoted effort to learning both and now have settled into a better gamer with them. I use lots of magnifiers mainly in those 2 puzzles and there are several modes in which using 2 or 3 of them will complete the game very quickly without all the hoopla.

I have sounds turned off in all the games I play Freecell, Wordstacks/Wordscapes, Pyramid, Spider, Solitaire... and my cellphone is pretty quiet as well - only ring for call and old horn for text, both low volume. I prefer sound of birds and wildlife like my owl family outside, frogs, herons, egret, etc. Sometimes I wanna kill neighbors dog pack at 3am even though I never would. (Why would anyone even move out to a rural wildlife preservation edge and bring GD uncontrolled untrained dogs??!!)  Rant over. Sorry