Splitter: physics, fun, and a knife - Time Waster

You've seen plenty of great physics-based Time Wasters on Downloadsquad before, and Splitter is the latest addition to the collection.

The goal of the game is to cause the smiley to roll, fling, or bounce onto the bronze-colored circle. Points are scored by passing over the star on your way.

To get the smiley moving, you're given a knife that can cut through certain objects that make up each level. Wooden pieces and string-like connectors can be cut, brick and metal objects can't. Splitter compounds the challenge by limiting you to a certain number of cuts per level.

While you'll likely breeze through the first several levels, you'll eventually encounter some head-scratchingly tricky scenarios as you progress.

There's just enough thinking involved to make the game fun, but not so much that you're going to get frustrated and fling your mouse.

Thanks, Dave!