Games and applications for Windows Live Messenger: Difference between revisions

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There are various games and applications available in [[Windows Live Messenger]] that can be accessed via the conversation window by clicking the games icon and challenging your "buddy".

==Games==

===Tic-Tac-Toe Classic===

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Tic-Tac-Toe is a game where you place your little toe on part of the board, which consists of a 3×3 grid. The aim of the game is to complete 3 squares in a row, either vertically, horizontally, or diagonally.

===Solitaire Showdown===

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MSNThis Messengergame, versionsincluded 6since andMSN onward containMessenger thisversion game (in the Games menu)6, is based on the original Solitaire ingame that is part of Windows. It is online, 2 player, and features 2 decks (a triple deck, and a special 13-card pile). Each player must race to remove cards of the special 13-card pile, and put their cards on the shared piles/suit stacks (e.g. putting an ace of any suit on the pile, but putting 2's of a suit may only be possible after the ace of the suit is currently on the pile, not covered by any other cards). There are eight different suit stacks possible. Other differences between this and normal Solitaire are that not just Kings, but any card can be put on a blank row stack, and there are four black row stacks to put on instead of seven. The game ends if one player removes all cards of the 13-card pile, or when both players are "stuck" and cannot remove/put up any more cards, and manually end the game using the End Game button. This game is similar to the game [[nertz]].

====Scoring====

== Games ==

Putting a card up on the suit stack gives 1 point, while removing a card from the 13-card pile (i.e. putting such a card on one of the row stacks) will give 2 points (hence it is also possible to get 3 points by directly putting a card from the 13-card pile on to the suit stacks).

===Checkers===

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In a twist on the original game, players must now locate flags and whoever has found the most by the end wins (i.e. the first person to get 26 or more mines wins). There are 51 mines on the map. If you find a flag you get to continue, otherwise it becomes your opponent's turn. Players get the one-off option to "bomb" a 5×5 area if they are losing, and get all the flags in that area (hence it is possible to get more than 26 mines).

===Other Gamesgames===

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Other "Instant Games" include: [[Jewel Quest]], [[Mahjong Quest]], [[Quarto (board game)|Quarto]], [[Backgammon]], [[7 Hand Poker]], [[Mah Jong Tiles]], [[Polar Express Bejeweled]], [[Cubis]], [[Hexic]], [[Mozaki Blocks]], [[Sudoku Too]], [[UNO (game)|Uno]] and [[BrainBattle]].

===Third-party games===

A number of additional [[Third-party software component|third-party]] games have also been built using the [http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa751024.aspx Messenger Activity SDK]. An overview of third party activities is available on [http://gallery.live.com gallery.live.com].

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Application Sharing allows two computers to share an application over the network. This is usually a smaller application, as most computers cannot handle large programs on two systems at once.

===Included Web Browserbrowser===

Windows Live Messenger has includedincludes an [[Internet Explorer]] -based web browser that can be started when using the [[Encarta]] robot.

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===Remote Assistance===

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