If you like playing checkers, you’ll probably enjoy 3 in 1 Checkers at Browser Arcade. There are three variants of Checkers: Standard, Giveaway, and Extreme. In Standard checkers the rules are as you would imagine. Move your pieces diagonally one spot forward per turn, jumping the opponent’s pieces to capture them and trying to avoid

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Here’s an interesting Flash game from Gamedesign. It’s called Crossword, though it isn’t what you’d normally think of as a crossword puzzle. The board layout is similar but there are no definition clues. Click a spot on the board and every spot with the same letter is highlighted. Then, on the right, click the letter

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Simon Tatham has written a collection of puzzle games for Windows, Linux, and Max OSX. Someone has also ported them to the Palm. Lots of Puzzles There are 24 puzzles that range from a sliding tile game called Fifteen and a Color-the-Map game, to Dominoes, Solo (basically Sudoku), Mine Sweeper, Untangle, and others. You can

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New Snake Mark Fennell has a gorgeous Snake game called Python which is like the traditional variants, but with actual snake and mouse graphics (not to mention blood and carcass graphics), more angles, and an energy meter, but more or less the same gameplay we all love. Old Snake There are many incarnations of the

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Don’t know who wrote this DHTML and Javascript game, but it’s kind of fun. Called either Red Square or Escape or Escapa. Click and drag the red square around, avoiding the other moving shapes as best you can. The game ends when there’s a collision. Nearly everywhere I see this game says “if you make

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Apparently created for an old 5K webpage contest, Lee Semel’s tiny Javascript Wolfenstein 5K is nearly unplayable but nevertheless an interesting examination of what can be done with Javascript. Very tightly packed Javascript, mind you, but still interesting to see so much done with so little. Follow the links for a commented and un-obfuscated version.

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There are a lot of great online games that you can play for free. It’s good for your wallet, lots of fun, and goes a long way towards self-improvement. No kidding.

This article covers dozens of free online games, spanning various genres, form word games to shooters, from puzzles to eating games and more.

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