Nexus 5 - Ultimate Gaming Collection!

 I have been a gamer since childhood. By gamer I mean an avid gamer, not a pro gamer. I loved and still love playing games. It all started with Brian Lara Cricket on my cousin's computer. It was long back, they had a black and white monitor, and the computer was used only for playing that game. After that I got a computer and used to play Quake 3, and many other small flash games. I also had a sega gaming console before, playing Contra and other games, we all have done that.

 I was however lucky enough to own a PS2, and I played a lot on it. Mostly NFS series, and sports like Cricket, FIFA, F1 and Lawn Tennis. I had and still do have many car and bike racing DVDs of my PS2. After that I got a Nintendo Wii from US, that was good for work out, however controls are not as smooth as you would expect, it is still a pre-mature technology. And then...Nexus 5 came in ma life!!

 My last blog related to gaming on Nexus 5 was on May 1. A lot has changed since. Believe it or not, I have 26 games on my Nexus 5 currently, compared to the 9 which I had then. To start with I installed a lot of word games, I am a voracious writer, and words are my poison. I have got Wordament, Snap Attack, 5 Clues, 4 Pics 1 Word, Word Search and Vocabul Jumble to play with. This is something good, you learn along with having fun. Another terrific games I got is Quiz Up, this is amazing. You can play quiz agianst anyone in the world, as well as your friends on over 500 topics. My favorite topics are Computer Science, and Cricket. I can proudly say I have beaten the best in Computer Science from Italy and Poland, and many others which I am proud of!

  Let's get to big games now. I got CSR Racing, which is an ultimate drag racing game. Similar to NFS series, you fight up against a gang, and beat the boss in the end. There are 5 gangs. You can upgrade you car, and compete in lotta other races too, to earn money for car upgrade. The music is scintillating, and game play is terrific too1

Then I got WWE SuperCard,I remember playing this in childhood, where you would have all cards with details of each wrestler like rank, chest, biceps, fights fought, figths won, etc, and you would have to win all the cards to win the game, this is just like that and really cool and addictive. I played from midnight to 4AM the day I installed it, and I am still undefeated with 36 wins!! :P

 Another big game I got is FIFA 14, having played FIFA a lot on PS2, this is not new for me. Only the AI has improved a lot, and new game modes, however this is over 1 GB game so you would need space on your mobile. Real Cricket 14 is another big game I have installed today itself, I am going to check it out, but based on screen shots, and reviews it does look promising. Stick Cricket Partnerships and Tennis 3D are still there from before. I got 3D bowling too now, I tried Pool, but I am not into it much.

 I have got a bunch of aircraft combat and simulator games. The best one is Rise Of Glory, it has really good dog fights and lot of missions. You start with a classic World War 1 wooden plane, controls are pretty simple and there is not much to complain about.  iFighter 1945 is a 2D but highly impressive game , really nice what they have managed to do with 2D only effects. Fly Plane - Flight teaches you how to fly a commercial jet, pretty neat, you get a feeling on how much reponsibility is there in the hands of the pilot, the landing is the toughest part I found. Space Agency is also still there from before, but I have stopped playing it, will retain it though!

 Spider Man Unlimited is the last notable game I would like to write of. It is one of the best game I have on my cell currently. Amazing graphics, gameplay and story line. So loaded with all these games in a 16GB model, along with a lot of apps, I guess I am using my cell phone pretty well and to the fullest.

TCP EXPLAINED

We all use the internet to do a lot of things. We use it to send email, to do social networking, to do online shopping and for various other purposes. However did you ever think or wonder how the internet works? What all goes behind the scenes and what infrastructure is involved in fulfilling all the requests you make on the internet; and enabling all the activities you perform online!

The internet architecture is a set of layered architecture. You act as a client, and your machine acts as a client system who is requesting services from various websites. The websites have various servers which cater to your requests. There are several logical layers which are involved at both client end and the server end through which your request passes. Imagine it similar to two buildings, you are on 10th floor of a building and you want to go to 10th floor of another building. You would go all the way to the ground floor, then walk or drive to the destination building, and then again go all the way to the 10th floor of the destination building.

There are various set of rules or what is technically called as protocols involved at each layer, which help in fulfilling your requests. One of such protocols is the TCP Protocol. The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite (IP), and is so common that the entire suite is often called TCP/IP.  TCP provides reliable, ordered and error-checked delivery of a stream of digital information between two programs running on computers connected to a local area network, intranet or the public Internet. It resides at the transport layer, which is one of the layers of the internet stack. Web browsers use TCP when they connect to servers on the World Wide Web, and it is used to deliver email and transfer files from one location to another.

Transmission control protocol (TCP) is a network communication protocol designed to send data packets over the Internet. TCP is a transport layer protocol and is used to create a connection between remote computers by transporting and ensuring the delivery of messages over supporting networks and the Internet.

TCP makes it easier for computer programs to communicate with each other, typically over a computer network. When a program wants to send a lot of data, TCP is in charge of dividing the data, sending it through the network, and putting it back together correctly on a different computer. In the process, IP chooses which wires and "intersections" get used to send all the data pieces in the fastest way. It does this using packets.

If there are a lot of people using the network, it can get overloaded. Also sometimes weather, power outages, and other problems can make communication hard. Routers on the Internet use something called load balancing to try to fix some of these problems. But still, information can be delivered out of order, get lost, or even duplicated. TCP is designed to notice all of these problems and try to fix them. This can take a while, which is why the Internet sometimes seems slow. Once the TCP receiver has finally reassembled a perfect copy of the data originally transmitted, it passes that data to the computer program that asked for it. In this way, the program does not have to know about the network, and TCP does not have to know about the program's data.

We can relate what the TCP protocol does to the scenario when we order food from a restaurant. We request some food form the restaurant, the cook at the kitchen prepares the food, and the delivery boy delivers the food to our home. We again open the parcel, and enjoy the meal. The food is packed at the sourced and unpacked at the destination. Food is similar to the data which is passed over the internet from source to the destination. The delivery boy is similar to the transport layer, who ensures that the food is delivered in exact same conditions to the end point.

Hope the above explanations and examples were clear and you got a fair idea about the TCP protocol of the internet. 

 *I had submitted this essay as part of the Coursera IHTS course of University of Michigan. I am publishing this now as grades are declared. Please do not copy for any future sessions of this course. 

My Internet History

I remember it precisely. The year was 2001; I had just finished my 10th grade board exams, never used internet before. I went to a local cyber café for the first time, and asked them to help me setup an email id. Rediff.com was pretty popular at that time in India. I signed up, my name is Kartik Vyas, I tried for an id like kartikvyas@rediffmail.com, it was already taken, and this is a pretty common combination. I tried some more combinations, didn’t work, finally I ended up  with myhearwiillgoonkartik@rediffmail.com...it sounds pretty funny now, but I was pretty new to the internet then.

As far as technology is concerned, we had dialup internet at that time, when I first got internet at home. In the cyber café I am not sure, may be they might have had cable connection, but still it was not broadband, I am pretty sure! I used to go a lot to the cyber café, Yahoo Messenger was a big craze then, going in to public chat rooms, and then trying to start up a conversation with strangers. I think the last I remember; I had around 120 strangers in my Yahoo friends list! J

Another thing I used to do a lot was search for wallpapers of cars, and cinema celebrities, and email everyone, I was one hell of a spammer then! I used to also send e-cards to friends and relatives. I was also using email to be in touch with my long distance relatives. There was no social networking back then, no WhatsApp or Facebook.

Also I had my first desktop computer at home in 2003 before I started undergrad studies, I think it had a floppy drive, which is not seen these days! I don’t remember the configuration exactly but I guess it was Pentium 4 maybe and 256MB of RAM. Comparatively I have a DELL mini monster laptop now, it has 8GB RAM, 750GB hard disk, 1 GB inbuilt video graphics, and second gen Core i5, I got this back in 2011, and it was my second laptop.

I started my undergrad studies in Computer Engineering, and I can definitely say the initial stint with the internet had a big influence on my decision, I had curiosity to know how things work, and I wanted to learn it all. During engineering I learnt programming, I learnt RDBMS, and many other courses, I used to use internet voraciously to do research related to my courses. In my university we used to have well equipped labs, but it was only for study purpose, only faculty had internet access, and they had broadband connection.

Social networking started for me around 2006, I started using Orkut, and I remember it was exciting and a bit addictive too. In 2008 I got an invite from a friend to use facebook, compared to orkut I found facebook interface of 2008, a bit less user friendly, but then slowly facebook started gaining ground and we all know the rest!

After I graduated I got a job in a big MNC, I worked for 3 major clients. Everything was online, we were working for big clients and dealing with a lot of sensitive data, and had a lot of responsibility. There were 3 level access till I could reaches my cubicle! J

One thing I am proud of is a failed startup I had back in 2010. Cloud computing was a novelty then, I had done some research, and was planning to build a startup to provide cloud based solutions for business users. I had commodity and retail market in mind. I also had registered a domain, and designed my site from godaddy.com. It was not in India back then, and I had paid them in dollars, they had a ton of tools to work with. Everything was there, only I was still nascent and could not build a working product. Eventually I thought of trying again later when I am more prepared and more experienced.

I used to do a lot of research at that time, wrote papers about Cloud computing and SOA. The passion and curiosity I had when I started using internet in 2001, I still had it in 2010 and I still have it now. Although due to time constraints of a full time job, I cannot do much research but I try to do as much as possible, I read a few papers and saw some videos on BigData last year, I also completed a course on coursera itself of the same.

So, this is my own history of the internet! Hope you had liked it!

*I had submitted this essay as part of the Coursera IHTS course of University of Michigan. I am publishing this now as grades are declared. Please do not copy for any future sessions of this course. 

Internet in 2034

To think about the future of the Internet, let’s have a look at the past. To predict the future 20 years from now, let’s get an idea how much we have advanced in the last 20 years. So, how was the internet really in 1994? Well in the 90s the internet was becoming more and more popular; it was having a revolutionary impact on means of communication with advent of electronic mail, instant messaging, forums, blogs and social networking. All these things are still pretty much there, however they have now become a basic necessity in everyday personal and professional life. Something which was a fantast or a novelty 20 years back has now become an integrated part of our lives.

Another major difference in the last 20 years has been the number of devices connected to the internet. Currently we have over 20 billion devices connected to the internet, which is more than 3 times the population of the whole world. This is an extra-ordinary change, and it clearly showcases the impact Internet has had on our daily lives. Also, the fact that these devices talk to each other and are super smart, has brought in a revolution with regards to convergence.

So going by all the above, it is really difficult to predict how Internet would be 20 years from now, no one would have guessed 20 years back that we would be relying and using the internet so heavily today. However, here’s my 2 cents.

First thing I believe that might happen is division of networks. Currently we have only a WWW, which is common and everyone uses it. I believe slowly we would have multiple closely coupled and independent array of networks. For eg. We would have self driving cars, so there would be an independent network infrastructure dedicated just for that particular domain. This would have to happen because going by the numbers and the exponential increase we are having currently, it would be almost impossible to have one global network which would encompass everything.

Another major revolution I see is in the medical industry and its influence on wearable devices. We already have some wearable devices in the form of Google Glass, Smart Watches, we also have a Smart Band coming up. I believe in the future, the complete health of the human body would be monitored via a wearable device, it could be as simple as a watch or a wrist band, it would be connected to the health systems web and off course it would be smart enough to ensure I am in the peak of my health all the time.

We may also see shift in the basic architecture of how the internet is accessed and used. We already ran out of IPv4 addresses last year and we are now using IPv6 addresses to accommodate the staggering number of devices connected to the internet. We also see new and new concepts like Cloud Computing, Big Data Analytics, etc coming up. All this and more could easily change the fundamental architecture of the internet in the future.

I might as well start thinking of what we saw in fiction movies like Minority Report and Robot, and there is a fair chance that reality could be that in 20 years. Science, Technology and Internet are advancing and tremendous rate, I use a Nexus 5 smart phone, and I receive OS update and application updates very frequently. Also with regards to hardware, we have 3GB of RAM now available in smart phones, with octo core processors, something we could have never imagined, same goes with the internet, how and where it would lead us is difficult to predict!

*I had submitted this essay as part of the Coursera IHTS course of University of Michigan. I am publishing this now as grades are declared. Please do not copy for any future sessions of this course. 

Amdocs World Hackathon 2014

I remember in 2011 when I was doing my Masters from Purdue School of Science. I was the CS Rep for IEEE, and there was IEEE international 48 Hackathon which was going to happen. I had to be part of the organizing team, and I also wanted to take part in the event. I sent email to my class distro. No one replied. I approached a couple of guys, but even they turned me down. I was a bit disappointed then.Come 2014, and life has come a full circle. God provided me another chance with the Amdocs International Hackathon 2014. This time I did manage to build a full strength team and submit my entry. It was a 24 hour Hackathon.

The date was 16^th September and the time 8:30AM. I reached the center and the instructions overview session was going on. It lasted around half an hour. After that me and my friend took a stroll in the garden to do some brainstorming. The theme of the Hackathon was ‘Internet of Things’, so we wanted to be out of office as it would enable us to see more things  and think of possible novel ideas.

We went to the office after that and had meeting with the team and finalized the concept and the product we wanted to build. We also finalized the business flows we will implement. There is a saying, if you have 12 hour to cut a tree, use 10 hours to sharpen your axe! All plans ready, we made arrangements for laptops to be used, and at 3PM we were fully ready, and started working!

The team we had, we are all good friends, and there was going to be lot of fun for sure. The primary aim was to enjoy and have a good time, along with completing the product. We coded all night, and we did have a working product with 3 business flows working as expected without bugs. It was more than enough. We had built a smart internet of things system on the cloud in 24 hours. We had also added decision making skills to it using AI. We were very tired, but the happiness and satisfaction took over more!

It was a great experience for all 5 of us: Atul Tripathi (Atul ji, Behtareen, Dhurandhar, ATITT), Saurabh Hote (Jaykant Shikre, Hotteeeeee), Rahul Singh (Cheetah), Vinil Mehta (Vats) and myself Kartik Vyas.  Thank you guys for helping me in fulfilling my dream, your support was exceptional and this would not have been possible without you guys! I will definitely never forget those 24 hours of fun and coding!!

Maggie @ 3AM

My last post was also at 3AM, I had prepared a soup. I had to struggle, and innovate, but I was determined and eventually succeeded in preparing the soup I wanted to.  It’s 3AM again, I have morning shift tomorrow, I started watching Gangs of Wasseypur, and got hooked!

I felt like writing something. I was thinking what to write, I put the water for boiling, decided I will write after eating my Maggie. But then, I roamed a little, just couple of rounds in the hall, and some memories came to my mind, I was also looking at my life currently, and bang I’m in the groove! My fingers type automatically and my mind directs it on what to type, it feels like all this is happening subconsciously, I do not need to think or analyze much! Well that’s how it has been since my first post in 2008, and that’s how I write, I don’t know about others, but I guess this is natural to me!

So let’s go back in time. I was a teenager; we were 3 best friends in school. We used to go for walks in the evening. We used to pull each others leg a lot, all of us had admirable sense of humor (hell we still do), we also used to discuss issues; typical teenage life crisis. One day, we were discussing what do we want in life? I still remember what one of my friend said, he wanted to have enough money to have a home, a car, and should be able to go out for a movie with family every week. He is a CA now, he married to a CA. I guess he has definitely done justice to his aspirations, and perhaps even more!

The other guy, he is into business. He completed engineering, started assisting his uncle in business and he is now doing his own business. And then finally me, I did not talk of any plans on what I wanted, I did not have a list then. I do not have a list now, but I do have some aspirations, there are some things in life I want to be, and they are much beyond getting a car or getting a house. Money is not a unit of measure for what I want to do in life, those who have been very close to me will realize what I am talking about! Even the lady who took my ‘Verbal Communications Test' at Infosys knows about it, she had asked me: 'What I want to be in life?'

Present day. I have 5 years of experience in IT industry. I have worked for some of the biggest and most reputed companies, not only in India but also the world! My school friends would not have expected me to reach these heights, I used to be good in Maths and Science, but was an average student overall. I never even got a first class till 9^th grade. I was not part of any particular group of friends, I never have been. I am friendly with everyone, and I have some close friends, but I have never been a ‘we are a group of amigos’ kinda guy!

I worked my ass off in 10^th grade, burned the midnight oil and prepared for the board exams. They were pretty good, however frankly speaking even I was not expecting to get 81% in SSC, having never got a first class before. But, it was a lot of dedication and a lot of studies; I guess that was the first major achievement of my life!

Today when I am able to sit and write a blog in Magarpatta City, Pune working for a MNC, and being able to spend on all my wishes and enjoy my life to the fullest, I can proudly say I have done pretty well. I know many friends who have done much better, but I don’t wanna compare myself to anyone, I wanna compare myself to the guy in his teens, who was hanging out with his best friends that evening, chatting about what we want in life!

My 3AM Jugaad Tomato Soup

To start with I am very proud of myself today. I realize that I have also developed a very good ‘Jugaad’ mind now. There is no doubt that I was a genius since bachpan, but now having the additional power of common sense and ‘jugaad’ makes me feel even more sturdier.

Well I am not very humble when I write am I! Anyways to start with what is Jugaad? It is a very common term used in India, and yes we Indians are so smarter than the rest of the world! There is a jugaad for everything in India! I just did a google search of what Jugaad means? I got the meaning in the search result, please note in the search result itself and not after clicking on any web link! Hell there is also a wiki page on Jugaad! Also there are books having Jugaad as part of the title!! Feeling Proud! :D

So let’s get to my epic Jugaad of today. So it’s 3AM in the morning, due to my 3-12 shift, my sleep time which is 4AM has not yet come. I finish my 'Pringles sour cream and onion' box (and boy I love it!! #Addictive), I gulp on my tetra pack chocolate milk and have some cookies along with it. Then I decide, let’s make soup!

So off I go to kitchen, first thing I notice there is no utensil to prepare soup in! Well there are but they need to be washed (and I hate washing clothes and utensils :P ), so I look around the house, search and finally get an old rusty tapelu, it’s a big one, but well it will serve the purpose.  I pour water in it, and put it for boiling, problemo numero 2, there is no sansi (pakkad thing), I was thinking of using a cloth or something when I am done.

After 5 mins…problemo numero 3, the old rusty tapeli is giving out rust along with boiling water, what to do now! No problem…keep calm and keep boiling! Had a quick look around…found a big chamcha…ok I will use that to transfer water from tapeli to my mug. About the rust?? Well basic science, solid is heavier then liquid as it has higher density, after I turn off the gas it will settle down again! (y) After that I use a jharni (filer thing) while pouring water from tapeli to my mug via the big chamcha!

Mug already has the soup powder, just stir it…keep it for 3 mins…awesome soup ready…awesome Jugaad soup ready…even if some rust got dissolved in water…body needs iron in one form or the other…at the end of the day the feeling of accomplishing a wonderful Jugaad is simply marvelous!

Life @ Star Date 67942.9

Today is Star Date 67942.9, and the state of my mind is same as it was around SIX years ago. It was 30^th July, 2008, 03:25AM in the morning and I had a curious little mind, searching for answers. I just had to get my thoughts out and I blogged them out. That was the time when I first wrote about Life, there are 18 labels in my blog about Life, some philosophical, some experiential.

The things I want to write about is that between the first Label of Life and the 18^th, I have learnt a lot, I have grown a lot. I have experienced successes, experienced failures. Had a lot of happy moments, and also lot of sorrowful moments. However I have learnt one thing, the harder you fall, the stronger you are when you get up. I have learnt that it is important to be happy, but it is also important to be sad, because unless you don’t experience darkness, you won’t realize the importance of light.

I always wanted to do something important, something useful for humanity. Having high goals and dreams often comes with a price; the mind often achieves what it envisions.  I have experienced this many times, when I hope for something to happen, it really happens. I have also had a lot of deja-vu moments in my life. But I still contemplate what the limits of the human mind are. How powerful is the human mind and what is the source of its power? I dint have many answers in 2008, which I have now, may be one day I will have all my answers!

Life @ 67942.9 is going very well. I am rocking away on my Nexus 5, also read about the upcoming Nexus 9 tablet, looks to be a good one. Also I got myself my favorite Digit magazine’s 13^th anniversary issue. The weather is wonderful in Pune, the onset of monsoon, it is very pleasant and windy, and there is happiness all around.

The FIFA World Cup 2014 is going on, and sadly I am not following it much. I don’t know, I have lost my interest in Sports. I remember watching a lot of Football (mainly EPL), Cricket, F1, Tennis and WWE when I was in school/college. Now I do some reading, some social networking, and I watch a lot of movies. I can arguably say, I have watched over 70% of the released movies (Hindi, English) of 2014 in cinema hall!

I am going through a very good phase of my life, but I am choosing happiness over my goals. It is really funny; there are basically two types of people. One who just want to enjoy life and not think about anything else, and one who are goal oriented. I am a mixture of both. I realize that if I am very happy, it means I am not focusing on my goals, and vice-versa.

Life is about experience, life is about meeting new people, knowing them. I have met a lot of people through school, college and my jobs. You learn from them, you interact with them, you become very good friends, sometimes your good friends have to go away and you feel sad, but then you find more friends. Happiness and sorrow is a state of mind, HELL… EVEN LIFE AND DEATH IS A STATE OF MIND!!!

18th June, 2014

 Another date blog post, and a post after long time! I had pretty hectic work in office for last 3 months, was feeling tired, took a vacation and went to Gujarat. Visited Rajkot, Baroda, Anand and Bhanvangar. 4 cities in 9 days, lots of siblings masti, lots of home food, card games, and eventually gaining a few kilos at the end of it all!

 I visited Rajkot first, I was really surprised by the amount of development in Rajkot, I could see lots of premium apartment buildings, actually more than I have seen in Mumbai. The highways in Gujarat are also incredible, to be frank I have visited US, and some top cities in Gujarat have infrastructure facilities and development of similar to what you would find in the US!

 Did a lot of shopping in Rajkot, then I went to Bhavnagar, it is a very memorable place for me and my sister. We just used to love playing on the big swing in the yard outside the house and brushing in the open air tap every morning! As soon as I sat on the hichko, I felt an indescribable feeling, it was good, it was happiness, it was wonderful indeed! Went to our kud-devta Dhudiya-dada temple in Babara, which comes between Rajkot and Bhavnagar. Performed our family traditions there, and back to Bhavnagar.

 Went for the movie Fugly in the evening with my little PhD sister Nidhi, it was a big mall indeed, movie was nice too! After that had some exotic hot bhaijias, tomato and capcicum bhaijias to be precise! :D Went to Takteshwar mahadev temple after that, weather was wondeful, cool and windy. Takteshwar is a temple on the hill, and you can see whole of Bhavnagar from it!

 Next morning started for Anand, first time visit for me. Reached there and meet mota mama and all. Anand and Valabh Vidyanagar are next to each other, Valabh Vidyanagar is the biggest educational hub of Gujarat, where a lot of NRI students come too! Visited my brother's college where he is Assistant HOD, the infrastructure and cleanliness of the college were really commendable! Really impressed!

 Went to Baroda after that. Played cards with Snehal, had Punjabi food, a relief after 9 days of aamras and Gujarati cuisine, also had Pav Usal there. Started by journey back home from Baroda! It was a wonderful refreshing trip, and a memorable one indeed!

 Coming back to the subject now, today we had Kaizen fair in office, and my idea was selected as one of the top 12 in my unit. I was given a stall and I was presenting my idea to all visitors and the judging panel. A new experience indeed. I was a bit nervous all day, but did all the required preparations, started getting good feedback from the audience and then it all went well!

 Also finally ordered Moto E for mom, form flipkart today. This has become like booking tatkal ticket in irctc...lol. Also today is Sparsh's 4th month birth anniversary, Kaizen fair achievement dedicated to you big guy!

The 9 Games on my Nexus 5

In one of my previous posts, I had mentioned about the games I had loaded in my phones. At that time I had Subway Surfer, Hill Climb Racing, Asphalt 8, Stick Cricket Premier League and Tennis 3D. However, three have been a few changes now.

To start with I uninstalled Subway Surfer and Hill Climb Racing, as I did not find any interest in them after playing high graphics racing and sports games. I also installed some new games on my cell. As I was done with the Stick Premier League, I uninstalled that too, and I installed Stick Cricket Partnerships. It is a multiplayer online game, where you partner with other players on the net, and try to reach certain milestones and clear each levels. I also got the original Stick Cricket, but that is not that great, most of the things in that are paid!

Another game which I installed and I am playing a lot is 'Teen Patti'. It is the Indian version of Poker. I remember back in 2011, I played a lot of Zynga Poker on facebook. I had started with 10K chips and I had reached 2 Million, and hell yeah I am proud of it! Currently I have reached upto 175k starting from 10K, I have played only a week till now. I really like these games, they help you in developing your judgment and decision making skills.

What else, I have installed 4 more games. First is KBC, however I have never won more than 40K in it….the questions are just much tougher than what you get on the television. Second one is chess, which I din’t play till now…lol .

Third one I got is Pool Billiards, it is a good game to kill time, but I would enjoy the real pool more than the one on my cell. Finally I got a wonderful little game called 2048. It took me some guidance on how to play it, but once I learned, it is indeed a bit addictive! So there it is…the current 9 games of my Nexus 5: Tennis 3D, Asphalt 8, Stick Cricket, Stick Cricket Partnerships, Pool Billiards, 2048 Numbers, KBC 2014, Chess and Teen Patti.