BY LOGAN CAMPBELL
Study hall is the perfect time to get schoolwork done. For others, however, study hall is an ideal time for game-playing.
Here are some of the games study hall students enjoy the most:
Flappy Golf
Flappy golf is a golf-based game in which you flap (by tapping your phone) your way into the hole in the fewest flaps possible. There is also a multiplayer feature, where you try to get into the hole as quickly as possible.
Junior Quinn Driggett often plays the multiplayer game mode in Flappy Golf. “It is great that you can play other people,” says Driggett. He later added that, “It is a great way to pass the time.”
Another junior, Andrew Brandser, also plays the game in study hall. “I love competing with my friends,” Brandser says.
8-Ball Pool
In the game 8-Ball Pool, you play head-to-head billiards matches against your friends, or against a random opponent.
Timothy Spaeth and Aidan Shenton, sophomores at Mariemont High School, are 8-Ball Pool enthusiasts. When initially asked about their favorite study hall game, they quickly responded, “8-Ball Pool!” Shenton later commented on the game, saying that, “It is fun to play against my friends, and is also a great way to pass the time.”
Octagon
In this popular study hall game, you are trapped inside an octagon, but you have to keep moving along in order to survive. The goal is to finish a race filled with twists in turns through 8-sided tunnels. As you get through each level, it progressively gets harder and more complicated.
Junior Lindsay Stricker, who frequently plays Octagon in study hall, finds the game challenging and aesthetically pleasing. “I just like the fun colors of the game and how there is a greater challenge as each level increases,” says Stricker.
Another junior and Octagon player at Mariemont High School, Sydney Seeger, enjoys the game for its inconspicuous nature. “Octagon is so fun because you can play it discreetly in study hall and your teachers have no idea,” says Seeger.
For other study hall students, their use of time is a lot more effective than those who play games.
Junior Jackson Northrop enjoys taking quizzes over various subjects on the site Jetpunk. Corben Shoemaker, a sophomore at the high school, has very little time for games. “I play homework,” says Shoemaker.
