So, how many person hours are wasted annually, playing Candy Crush type games?

[OAITW r.2.0]

Been on Tubi watching spooks and there are a lot of phone games being promoted. I wonder how many people spend hours?/day playing games on their phone? Say 30MM gamers averaging an hour per day x 365 days. That's a lot of wasted time yet it does keep that person from confronting reality.

Same with on-line sports betting. Not only do you lose money, but you give up your mind to chase winning bet strategies.

[a kennedy]

1. I'm embarrassed to say I do a lot of stuff on my iPad...lotsa games, but mostly here on DU and

now BLUESKY. I do just look on facebook at what people I know are doing…….and it is a lot of time wasted.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. I can burn time playing wordscape and. sometimes airport.

Airport is a mindless game trying to route planes on runways without crashing into other planes. Wordscape is figuring out word combinations from a group of random letters.

But there a lot of games, like Candy Crush, that I cannot see any value in playing.

[Different Drummer]

3. I have to use restraint to keep from spending a lot of time...

playing the Jumble app on my phone.

[a kennedy]

4. Never do that I am a horrible speller......I blame my mother on that......she'll kill me if I get to heaven....

But she would sit with my 3 older brothers and go through their spelling list of words every week with them. I come along and she never helped me with my spelling words. So to this day I just stink at spelling. Sorry mom. 🙏🏻. Oh wait did you say Jumble??? I thought you meant wordle so sorry. I like Jumble too.

[OAITW r.2.0]

6. Wordscape is a great game for young kids and strengthens their vocabulary knowledge....with teacher guidance.

All age groups can benefit actually. There ought to be a cheat feature, maybe when you give up, to show the words you missed.

[LogDog75]

5. I play Candy Crush

Usually while listening to the TV or waiting in line for something. I've been playing Candy Crush for a couple of years and I'm at level 6511. Yeah, I know I play it a lot but it's something to do when the news is on or a program you don't have to pay close attention to.

I play Candy Crush on my Just Jumble cell phone and Mine Sweeper, Solitaire, and Scramble on my iPad. I don't hold it against anyone playing games because it keeps their minds active.