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Dozens if not hundreds of Flash, Java, and Shockwave games nicely grouped into categories (e.g., Action, Board, Card, Casino, Educational, Puzzle, Racing, Simulation, Skill, Sports, etc.) along with a search window to find specific games.
*** NOTE TO PARENTS *** The violence in some Adventure games might not be appropriate for younger children.
Over 300 Shockwave Flash games grouped into eight categories: Action, Adventure, Arcade, Shooting, Puzzle & Skill, Strategy, Sports, and Misc(ellaneous). A small search field is available if users know the name of the game they want to play.
Twenty-one links to games hosted on other sites like abctooncenter.com(1), chesskids.com(3), chessvariants.com(1), eduplace.com(3), funbrain.com(1), games.zeeks.com(7), learningplanet.com(2), niehs.nih.gov(1), pbs.org(1), and wordsmith.org(1).
Games and activities featuring the classic doll figure. (But where is Ken?)
A variety of games based on cartoon characters, both classic (e.g., Batman, Scooby Doo) and lesser known.
(Note: must enable Javascript)
Over 120 downloadable games with no popup ads or other intrusions. No galleries to wade through: all games are displayed on one page. Categories include action, arcade, classic, fighting, shooting, sports, weird, and miscellaneous.
The Discovery Channel's web site for children.
All the familiar Disney characters, old and new.
Wikipedia defines Extreme Ironing as an extreme sport and a performance art in which people take an ironing board to a remote location and iron a few items of clothing. According to the official website, extreme ironing is "the latest danger sport that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well-pressed shirt."
Wikipedia goes on to add that "...[I]t is widely considered to be tongue-in-cheek." If you did not realize that before, you certainly will after playing this amusing Shockwave game that is good for a few laughs.
Dozens of free on-line games organized by Java, Flash, and Shockwave.
Educational games for kids K-8; recommended by Ecoff Elementary teachers.
Over 1,500 games organized into 10 primary catregories (arcade, board, card, casino, fighting, multiplayer, puzzle, racing, shooting, and sport). No dazzling or sophisticated graphics here, but a simple web design easy to navigate.
Dozens upon dozens of Shockwave games of varying quality.
To facilitate downloading the better ones, games are archived as "http://gsfiles.com/hosted009/[name-of-game].swf"
More than 930 flash games. From the home page, click on the "Arcade Lounge" button to see a complete alphabetical list of all games. Users may also select the type of games to explore by clicking on one of over 70 randomly-sorted tag buttons that indicate the number of games in that category. If you cannot find a category to your liking, click your browser's refresh button and a new (randomly sorted) list of categories will appear.
Note to parents: this site contains a game called Hardc0re (spelled correctly) that despite its name is really quite innocuous. However, the name itself might run afoul of certain parental filters which might block a large portion of the site as a result. If you encounter that situation, you might want to consider whitelisting this site in order to enable it.
GameTeam (formerly JustFreeGames)
The original JustFreeGames site contained only ten Shockwave on-line games. This renamed site is greatly expanded and includes both on-line and downloadable games.
The only downside: the challenging and intriguing Tank Assault is still available, but players must now search harder to find it.
The two scavenger hunt games are both terrific. Click on "Fun & Games" and move your mouse over the haunted house.
Seasonal version of the all-time classic.
Hidden pictures, jokes and riddles, Goofus and Gallant, and other features from the magazine Highlights for Children.
No games here; just 25 short but occasionally comical video clips in .flv format from the Nickelodeon TV show iCarly.
A dozen intriguing and challenging geometric shape puzzles. (Requires Shockwave Flash plug-in.)
Kongregate: Play free games online
To quote the wry commentary from PC Magazine, "Only 2,598 free games (as of this writing) to keep you busy online?"
Use the Game Finder window to select from among five groups of games: Action, Puzzle, Exclusive, Preschool, and Creative. The action game Racers Supersonic comes highly recommended by Wesley.
[Note: Shockwave plugin and Javascript are both required.]
Games and puzzles featuring Miss Frizzle and her class.
Make 24
Three different versions of the popular arithmetic game where a player must apply addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to four numbers in such a way that produces the number 24.
Boergens Make24 - Simple graphical display that nevertheless requires Javascript.
RekenWeb Number Card - Java applet. After you have entered your solution, click on the "I can not come closer" button to display your new score.
CoolMath-Games Make24 - Uses playing cards with ace as 1, jack as 11, queen as 12, and king as 13. This game is timed: it allows players only 60 seconds to solve.
Note: In all cases, players must know how to apply parentheses to control the sequence of math operations.
Just eight games presented by the same folks who bring you Rose Art and Magnetix, but Wesley is absolutely captivated by the game "Pyrates."
Make sure that Javascript and cookies are activated and that your screen resolution is set to 1024 x 768 or higher.
Then hover your mouse over the "Kid Zone!" cube. The game listing will then appear in a toolbar immediately below. "Pyrates" is off to the right hand side.
The main site features four links: SOL Games, Puzzlemaker, Spelling City, and an on-line dictionary (Merriam-Webster). The Spelling City is not terribly exciting, but the SOL Games section contains numerous links to educational sites focusing on Virginia history, geography, civics, and economics as well as links to general science, math, and language arts. Most impressive, though, is the Puzzlemaker section which allows users to create 10 different types of puzzles, including word search, mazes, and cryptograms. Check out the math square puzzle: it is both intriguing and challenging. And if you get stuck, all games have a Solution button. Very cool.
Over 120 quizzes, puzzles and games about music.
Nick.com is the official website of Nickelodeon. It contains over 500 online games, many of them are related to the shows that currently or formerly aired on Nickelodeon. (Note: for best results, activate Javascript.)
Hundreds of flash games with convenient buttons to indicate useful categories, including Action, Classics, On-Line (Multiplayer), Puzzles, Role-Playing Games (RPG), Sports, Strategy, and more. Users can tailor the web site appearance to suit their taste by selecting one of four available backgrounds. A new game is posted every weekday (Monday through Friday). No descriptions of games are provided; users must therefore explore on a trial-and-error-basis, but that's sometimes half the fun.
Games and coloring pages featuring Arthur and others great PBS characters.
A companion site to PBSKids.
A large selecton of educational games. Children can select by subject matter (Language Arts, Math, Science, or Social Studies). Players can also click on the "Games" button to see all games listed alphabetically with codes indicating subject area and file formats: Java, Flash, Shockwave, or download (for offline play).
Better still: click on the "Arcade" button where games are grouped in the following categories: Action, Adventure, Classic, Dress-Up, Music, Racing, Simulation, Skill, Sling(!), and Sports plus three groups based on the cartoon characters Dora the Explorer, Sponge Bob Squarepants, and Willy Wonka.
Wesley's current favorite: Fish Tycoon.
Over two dozen simple, innocuous games with instructions in German. Knowing that Speilen means "to play" and Speile means "game" should be enough to navigate most of the site and launch games.
NOTE: McAfee Advisor (http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/qplay.de) has found this site to be free of adware and spyware.
Seven shoot-'em-up games all related to airplanes or outer space. Wesley is enamored with Robokill.
A wide variety of free online mostly educational games covering math, vocabulary, chemistry, animated games for kids, animal quizzes, science quizzes, health quizzes, history quizzes, brain games, USA 4 kids, paint activities and puzzles. At the top is a menu with additional categories for animal pages, pages for kids, world geography games, and U.S geography games. The ten most popular games are conveniently listed at the left.
With the release of Shrek the Third, the interactive coloring pages have been replaced by a highly commercialized web site. Even so, the game section contains a decent memory game along the lines of the old TV show Concentration
— and best of all, a very nice Sudoku game.
NOTE: For best results, you should activate Javascript and set your screen resolution to 1024 x 768 or above.
It also helps to have a very fast broadband connection. Otherwise, the video clips will pause every few seconds while downloading. If this happens to you, playing the videos a second time (from cache) provides good results.
Over 140 Flash games grouped into the folowing categories: Action, Adventure, Arcade, Misc[ellaneous], Physics, Puzzle, Retro, Shooting, Simulation, Sports, Strategy, and Tower Defense. It is the last category that caught Wesley's attention.
Games, stick fight movies, and stick (sick?) "humor" movies all featuring animated stick figures.
For reasons that I as an adult cannot fathom, Wesley is inexplicably fascinated by this site.
Hundreds of games nicely organized and with mostly simplistic graphics.
The search tool is a link labelled "Find a Game" at the bottom of the home page.
One personal disappointment: the instructions to Baseball are written in Chinese/Japanese!
Over 700 mostly downloadable Shockwave games (21 pages with 36 games per page).
You can view them by game types (e.g., Puzzle, Racing, RPG, Shooter, Sports, etc.) or
you can use a search tool if you know the particular game you are looking for.
Eleven activities based on Hasbro's Transformers plus eleven additional activities in the Monkeybar.
Over 130 Shockwave Flash games, perhaps the most famous of which is "Defend Your Castle." At the home page, clicking on the "Play Games" tab reveals a list of all the games. By default, they are sorted by number of plays, a crude indicator of popularity. Users can also sort by name, category (Action, Adventure, Puzzle, Role-Playing, Simulation), rating (E[veryone], T[een], and M[ature]), and release date. I could not find any criteria for the site's rating system, but most of the Teen and Mature ratings seem to be based on violence.
A variety of fun games. No recognizable characters, but lots of fun even so.
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