{"id":12061,"date":"2010-07-28T14:18:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T13:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/timewaster-asterisk\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:12:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:12:04","slug":"timewaster-asterisk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/timewaster-asterisk\/","title":{"rendered":"Timewaster: Asterisk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kongregate.com\/games\/VivernGames\/asterisk\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kongregate.com\/games\/VivernGames\/asterisk\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/07\/asterisk.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"448\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kongregate.com\/games\/VivernGames\/asterisk\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kongregate.com\/games\/VivernGames\/asterisk\"><strong>Asterisk<\/strong><\/a> is a really relaxing <strong>puzzle game<\/strong>, where you have to expand shapes so they collect all the stars on screen. Expand the wrong shapes and you won&#8217;t reach all the stars, and will have to try again, although once you&#8217;ve got a feel for it, finding Asterisk&#8217;s solutions are not too hard.<\/p>\n<p>With smart, simple graphics and a chilled out soundtrack, Asterisk it a great way to zone out and collect your thoughts for a few minutes. There are 20 level, which is just about right for a game like this. Check it out at Kongregate, and remember you&#8217;ll need the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/adobe-flash-player.en.softonic.com\/\"><strong>Flash<\/strong><\/a><\/strong> plug-in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asterisk is a really relaxing puzzle game, where you have to expand shapes so they collect all the stars on screen. Expand the wrong shapes and you won&#8217;t reach all the stars, and will have to try again, although once you&#8217;ve got a feel for it, finding Asterisk&#8217;s solutions are not too hard. With smart, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/timewaster-asterisk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Timewaster: Asterisk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-12061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340626,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12061\/revisions\/340626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12061"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=12061"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=12061"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=12061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}