You'll either love or hate the following Flash diversions from the fresh-faced wiseacres at RRRRThats5Rs.com. Accurately describing their creations as "frustrating games," 
RRRR often attempts to upend expectations of what a game should be, and even draw attention to the absurdity that can result from goal-based gameplay taken to extremes. A few of the games feature mature subject matter and if you don't enjoy spoilers and/or expletive-spewing frustrated gamers you may want to avoid the comments section.
How Much tests your powers of perception in a series of increasingly difficult and unlikely comparisons.
By far the longest and most intricate game on the site, the recent popularity of Don't Shoot the Puppy was responsible for knocking the 5Rs website offline last week. Figure out how to keep an adorable puppy safe from a cannon for 15 levels.
Click Once a Minute is a precision and endurance test that generated some gems in the RRRR comments section:
- Brian Shih - "Terrible and beautiful."
- Wyndee - "Whatever I def dont get this one it made me wanna get back to work."
- Euge - "This game isn't very fun."
Seemingly made only to illustrate the confusion that can be caused by ambiguous instructions, Click Between the Lights is the most traditional playing and least interesting of all the games on the site.
Finally, Get to the Finish is a tense but ultimately rewarding race poking fun at one of our most beloved Web technologies. See you at the finish line!
Attention budding game developers! Ben at RRRR is looking for people to implement a proverbs game that he describes here. He is even generously offering $3 for your time! If you know Flash and want to help out why not take him up on it?
Walkthrough Guide
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Don't Shoot the Puppy is amusing. I wasted 13 minutes and 34 seconds of my life on this! :)
Someone asked for a walkthrough, and here it is:
Level 1 -
Don't move the mouse after you click Start. 'Nuff said.
Level 2 -
Again, don't move the mouse after you click start. This puppy is slower than level 1.
Level 3 -
A fake popup ad will appear. DON'T GO TO CLICK IT. Wait for the puppy to exit the screen.
Level 4 -
The puppy will randomly pause. Make sure you don't try to push it along.
Level 5 -
The sign says "eternal suffering". Just let the puppy go to Hell. :)
Level 6 -
A ball will roll in front of the puppy. He will pause to pick it up, and then continue on his way with ball in tow. Make sure not to move the mouse!
Level 7 -
The ball will be thrown behind the cannon. The puppy will go backwards to retrieve it, and then go forward toward the happy face sign. You MAY move the mouse while the puppy is BEHIND the gun, but not when he comes in view of the barrel.
Level 8 -
The puppy is smaller. A button will appear that says "skip level". Don't go to click it.
Level 9 -
There will be a stake in front of the puppy. Your mouse will turn into a hammer once you click "start". DON'T BE FOOLED. The puppy can walk right in FRONT of the stake - just give it time. The hammer will hit the air about 20 times before the puppy moves.
Level 10 -
The screen will go blank. Don't panic - just don't move the mouse and wait for it to turn back on. The puppy is REALLY slow.
Level 11 -
The cannon is off-screen. Don't move the mouse.
Level 12 -
"Start" will stay there even after you click start, then disappear as the puppy starts to walk. If the puppy hasn't started moving by a minute, the game has frozen or you did not click start.
Level 13 -
There will be a timer above the puppy, and then it will begin to walk.
Level 14 -
It will walk a little ways, and suddenly have a dream. In it, the puppy walks out of the dream bubble, and somehow ends up on the right side of the screen. Wait for the dream-puppy to walk all the way to the left.
Level 15 -
The puppy moves REEEEEEEALLY slow in this one. Just be patient, it will be there in about 2-3 minutes.
Hope this helped! :)
Posted by: Metanaito
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March 31, 2006 11:18 PM