Excel — your friendly (and perhaps most dreaded) office tool. But it's not just for spreadsheets anymore.
Believe it or not, you can turn the
1. 2048
To fix this, run the installer and do a custom install and choose to install only VBA. Then run Autoupdate (Excel Help menu Check for Updates). Most of the time this works and you will then have VBA. If this doesn't work, you will have to completely remove Office 2011 and then reinstall (this time don't leave out VBA in your custom install). For example, some Excel Enthusiasts have used it to create Tetris-style and Dice-Rolling games in Excel. I have used the RAND function in conjunction with other functions and graphics to create a Slot Machine in Excel (send me a request at excelenthusiast@gmail.com if you would like a copy of the Slot Machine spreadsheet). According to Wikipedia, a Turing machine is a ‘hypothetical device that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape’. The strip of tape is infinite and the Turing machine can read and write it, but also maintains an internal state. Based on the current symbol of the tape, the Turing machine can change its current state. This is the snippet Simple Slot machine on FreeVBCode. The FreeVBCode site provides free Visual Basic code, examples, snippets, and articles on a variety of other topics as well.
You may have heard of the addicting game 2048 by Gabriele Cirulli. This is the same exact game, just in Excel format.
In 2048 two tiles of the same number can merge into a new tile that equals the total value of the two. The goal of the game is to have a tile value of 2,048.
The geniuses at Spreadsheet1.com built an Excel version that allows you to play the game, and track your moves to help analyze your strategy. Since the game is made entirely in Excel, you can resume the game at a later time by saving the workbook, and it can be played online or offline. It is available for Excel 2007 or later, and can be downloaded for free here.
But what if you want to play this game and be discrete at work? Reddit user Krzychu81 created a version of 2048 with 'highly advanced cloaking mechanisms to camouflage itself as financial statements.'
To download this sneaky version, click here.
2. Candy Number Crunch Saga
In four days, Canadian accountant Cary Walkin created Candy Number Crunch Saga. The game is a satirical take on the famous Candy Crush Saga game we all know and love, by King.com.
The description states that the game 'takes place in the not too distant future where King.com (KING) has had a successful IPO. The burden is on you, brave stock trader, to invest wisely and become richer beyond your wildest dreams!'
This creative game has more than 35 news events that can realistically affect stock price and includes a real-time stock ticker.
Candy Number Crunch Saga is available on PC Excel versions 2007, 2010 and 2013. To download it for free, click here.
3. Monopoly
Tumblr user Andrew Werner was playing the popular board game Monopoly with his wife and friend when he began to think of different strategies for the game.
After 12 to 14 hours of work, he created a Monopoly simulator in Excel using a programming language called Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). The game allows up to four players, and was updated in August 2011 with the option to choose 'human' or 'computer' players.
To download it for free, click here.
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4. 3D Maze
Built into an Excel grid, 3D Maze was developed by Jordan Goldmeier from Option Explicit VBA. Goldmeier, a guest author on Walkin's blog, shared a step-by-step tutorial on how to create 3D mazes and posted this game.
Using the arrow buttons in the spreadsheet, you can easily move around the maze. Below the arrows, a map can also help you navigate the maze.
3D Maze is available on PC Excel versions 2007, 2010 and 2013. To download it for free, click here.
5. Arena.Xlsm
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In addition to Candy Number Crunch Saga, Walkin designed a full-length role-playing game called Arena.Xlsm. The game took five months to make, and was released last March. It features more than 2,000 possible enemies, 1,000 possible item combinations, a storyline with four different endings and 31 spells.
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Arena.Xlsm is available on PC versions of Excel 2007, 2010 and 2013. To download it for free, click here.
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6. Writer's Block
Kevin Lyman, a former Microsoft intern, built an original multiplayer word game that he describes as 'Scrabble meets Battleship.' Writer's Block, the name of the game, was built entirely in Excel using a combination of conditional formatting, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and images, Lyman tells Mashable.
Lyman is currently porting Writer's Block from Excel to mobile platforms, and plans to release it to Android, iOS and Windows Phone this coming November. The Excel version of Writer's Block is not available to the public, but will be once the mobile versions are out.