How to kill time and drive yourself crazy

When I worked in consulting, there were occasionally stretches of time at the office where I had to wait, either for someone else to finish work that I needed to do my own, or for a critical phone call to be returned.

This was common, and we would kill this time by challenging each other to silly games we found on the internet. We played a bunch of Oregon Trail, but the most popular game was always QB Challenge.

Nobody was better at this game than my buddy, Randall. The all-time highest score was 50K points, and Randall came within 50 points of the record over Thanksgiving in 2002.

I recently rediscovered this game, inadvertently, and noticed a new wrinkle that's been added. You don't play forever anymore, which is great news for Randall, who used to be able to play individual games that last over an hour. Now you get just 60 seconds to pile up points.

My record is 960. See if you can beat me.

Here's the link.