Those of you looking for a new way to pass the time doing nothing while still pretending to be productive at work are in luck. A new game has hit the internet that is the very definition of a colossal waste of time.
THE A million boxes to check the game has recently gained attention on internet forums like Reddit And Pirate News, leading to a wave of players. How do we play? It’s ridiculously simple. There are a million boxes and you try to check as many as possible. Simply click on the boxes to check them. Or uncheck them. That’s it. That’s the whole game. The problem is that many other people are playing the game at the same time, and they are checking or unchecking all the boxes. This makes the effort of checking all the boxes potentially endless. What happens if all million boxes are checked? Could this ever happen? No one really knows.
One Million Checkboxes is hosted by eieio gamesa website created by Nolen Royalty, a software engineer and independent game developer. Royalty’s other games include weird stuff like telEyegrapha game that converts eye blinks into Morse code, or Video from abroadwhere you use your webcam to watch a stranger for as long as you want. Another game, Tell me about paper and scissorsallows you to play rock paper scissors with a stranger by calling a specific phone number.
One Million Checkboxes seems to have exploded recently. TechRadar reports that The game has sparked an online “war” between checkers and non-checkers, with tens of thousands of users believed to be involved. claimed that up to 500,000 players were involved at one point.
On his website, Royalty explains (or rather doesn’t explain) why he created One Million Checkboxes: “I don’t really know. The idea came to me during a conversation last Friday and I felt compelled to do it,” he writes.
“This site was fun to create. It got me thinking about a new space of collaborative experiences that I want to explore,” Royalty said, adding that he created the game in just two days.
