Fun & Games Sites

Many of these will improve your keyboarding and mousing skills while you're having fun!

General Games Portals

• BrainBashers - A unique collection of puzzles, games and optical illusions.
• Games for the Brain - Great quiz and memory games to improve your thinking skills.
• MSN Games - A huge portal of links to thousands of games, by Zone.com.
• Open Directory: Games - Many links to games arranged by subject. At some sites, you may just find the rules of play, rather than the interactive game to play.
• Pop Cap Games - Lots to choose from, like Bookworm and Word Harmony!
• Puzzability Puzzle Sampler - A sampling of different puzzles and games.
• Thinks.com: Games, Puzzles, Pastimes, and Family Leisure - This site offers links to quite a selection of games to play on your computer.
• Yahoo! Games - Links to thousands of games of all kinds.

Crossword Puzzles & Word Games

• Crossword Puzzles - It's amazing how easy it is to do crossword puzzles on the Web. No erasers required! Link to a world-wide selection of regular, cryptic, eductional, theme and other crossword puzzles. Online registration is required for some sites.
• A Game A Day - From the monthly calendar, find a new game every day to stimulate learning, problem solving and creative thinking.
• Independent Daily Cryptic Crossword - From First Features Syndicate
• Solving Cryptic Crosswords - Cryptic crosswords can seem dauntingly nonsensical at first glance. But the fundamental principles of cryptic clueing are actually quite simple. An Adobe Acrobat [PDF] page from Penny Press.
• The Free Dictionary - Free dictionaries and fun word games including hangman, word of the day, spelling bee, matchup and more!
• Today's Online Puzzles
  Includes cryptic, Canadiana and universal crosswords from the Globe & Mail.
• Universal Word Search - By Timothy E. Parker, hosted by National Post.

Individual Online Games

• 3D Mazes - Generate and solve 3D mazes online.
• Backgammon Portal - This is a large resource page on the game. Look under online backgammon to play with other players from around the globe.
• Checkers - Another version of the game, with more choices allowed during play.
• Chinese Checkers - Click to grab the stone and click on each place you'd like to jump to (double-click on your stopping place).
• Daily Jigsaw Puzzle - Choose various options such as the number of pieces. Your solutions are timed.
• Great Bridge Links - Many links to bridge sites on various topics: play bridge online, learn about bidding, club listings, ask an expert, discussion boards.
• Java Checkers - Select your skill level and play against the computer.
• JigZone - Choose the level of difficulty from a quick and simple puzzle of 6 pieces, to a challenging 247 pieces and solve these jigsaw puzzles.
• Rubik's Online - If you've ever been stumped by the hand-held Rubik's cube, try the Web version. Find other games and challenges as well.
• Simon - Do what Simon Says - follow the pattern of lights and sounds for as long as you can. Click on Play to begin. A good test of your memory!
• Daily Sudoku - The object of this Japanese puzzle is to insert the numbers in the boxes to satisfy only one condition: each row, column and 3x3 box must contain the digits 1 through 9 exactly once. Print or play online.
• Sudoku Classic - Archive of printable sudoku puzzles, published six days a week, ranging from easy to difficult.
• Sudoku Shack - Learn how to play, take a tutorial and play online.
• Tic-Tac-Toe - Choose from different skill levels and see if you can beat the computer.
• YouPlay - From Australia, a free online site to play and compete against others.  Sudoku, Kakuro (cross-sum) and Addoku (math + Sudoku), as well as Crossword, Cryptic Crosswords, Elevenses, Peggle, Wordsearch, Code-Cracker, Alphabet Mix puzzles and more.

Updated December 2009

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