{"id":8918,"date":"2009-08-14T10:49:03","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T09:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/friday-timewaster-silent-conversation\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:21:07","slug":"friday-timewaster-silent-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/friday-timewaster-silent-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Timewaster:  Silent conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/armorgames.com\/play\/4287\/silent-conversation\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/08\/silent-conversation.png\" height=\"300\" width=\"498\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, someone has answered the age old question, &#8216;what happens when you mix Mario with literature?&#8217; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/armorgames.com\/play\/4287\/silent-conversation\">Silent Conversation<\/a><\/strong> is what happens &#8211; a unique mix of reading and platforming! Each level is a poem, ranging from the super short to really long, and the words are spread out to make platforms for your letter &#8216;I&#8217; to jump. To score, you have to touch as many words as you can. When you touch the last word of the piece, the level ends, giving you a score and grade. The levels that I&#8217;ve played through feature pretty serious poetry &#8211; there&#8217;s not a lot of humor.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve certainly never played anything quite like Silent Conversation, and it&#8217;s an idea that works surprisingly well. Can you concentrate on reading and platforming at the same time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Finally, someone has answered the age old question, &#8216;what happens when you mix Mario with literature?&#8217; Silent Conversation is what happens &#8211; a unique mix of reading and platforming! Each level is a poem, ranging from the super short to really long, and the words are spread out to make platforms for your letter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/friday-timewaster-silent-conversation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Friday Timewaster:  Silent conversation&#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-8918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8918","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=8918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335425,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8918\/revisions\/335425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8918"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=8918"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=8918"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=8918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}