Honestly this one's pretty good, it has more personality than the likes of Little Alchemy (which came after this and I'm p sure was following quite directly in its footsteps) and it's simplistic enough so as to not feel bloated (like the modern-day mobile release). Takes a decent bit of thinking, I find, to actually discover new elements (though, yes, combining them randomly works too somewhat, but you'll often get a whole lot of nothing but wasted time out of that ime). The hints are helpful without doing what the modern mobile releases do where they literally just hand you new elements.
I'll have to see about coming back and actually playing it *on Newgrounds* so I can get achievements, instead of what I'm doing currently where I'm just playing it in Flashpoint