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Many of us know Excel is just an application to use for calculating, analysing, manipulating, presenting and backing up data. But you know, we can also use Excel for entertainment. Yes, Entertainment!

Here are the six mind blowing games which are created in Excel by six great Excel Lovers.

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1. 2048

Game play: Use the arrow keys to move tiles left, right, up, & down within the 2048 grid. If two tiles of the same number collide while moving, they will merge into a single tile equal to the total value of the two tiles. During every turn, a new tile will appear with a value of either 2 (90% of the time) or 4 (10%). 

Game is over when the 2048 tile is made or when no further move is possible.

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, byKing.com.

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.

4. 3D MAGE

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, clickhere.

5. ARENA

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.

Arena.Xlsm is available on PC versions of Excel 2007, 2010 and 2013. To download it for free, click here.

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 Blockis not available to the public, but will be once the mobile versions are out.

DID YOU LIKE THESE GAMES?

If you like these games then please do thank them going to their websites by clicking on the game name. I have inspired this post from Mashable.

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