Word Sandwich is a free online Flash game, the goal of which is to guess a five letter word. It tells you if your guess is alphabetically above or below the word (hence, the sandwich). You get more points for guessing in fewer tries, with a multiplier thrown in for how quick you come up …

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On has released Grow Ver 1 in his popular series. Very simple but lovely and almost hypnotic. Be sure to watch for a while after solving it. As always, On’s work is amazing.
Also check out Grow Ver 2 and Ver 3 and the Grow RPG and Grow Cube.

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Geosense is an online game by Mark Rossen where you try to locate ten cities. You play alone or against others.
There are three maps, including the World, an Advanced World map, and the United States. You can also play in Scramble mode, where letters are slowly revealed and you click once you know what and …

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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 having your …

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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 you …

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FreeGamesNews has an interesting interview with Tonypa, a superb Flash game designer.
In it, he talks about the challenges he has faced with people stealing his games for use on other sites and his basic approach to protecting his content.
If you’re not aware, Tonypa is a newspaper and magazine designer who picked up Flash programming back …

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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 traditional Snake game, …

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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 it to …

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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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