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Anika's Odyssey

Anika's mother makes her go and get some water from the well. While Anika is busy getting the water from the well a huge bird swoops down from the sky and snatches up her poor defenseless stuffed bunny! Use your cunning imagination in this brief adventure to rescue poor Anika's bunny. The game is beautifully illustrated in hand drawn landscapes and animations and features several funny characters. It uses a simple point-and-click interface that even children will be able to figure out.

Card Games

This site has several well-known card games that can be played online against other human players. Computer players take over when there aren't enough humans to play, or a human drops out. If you sign up they'll also keep track of your scores and rank you.

Bridge - Cribbage - Euchre - Spades - Hearts

Desktop Tower Defense

Unless you've been behind a stingy proxy your whole life, you've played a tower defense game or two. Desktop Tower Defense is one of the best of the genre. Plan a devious strategy of building up a maze of towers to slow the progress of the advancing hordes of creeps. Prevent them from getting to the other side of the screen by upgrading the firepower of your towers. The creeps will continually advance, so you must continue to update your maze. There are many different creeps to will thwart your and many different towers to stop them. You'll have to figure out the perfect combination in order to withstand them all. There are several versions of the game available, each with various scenarios, and methods of play.

Dice Wars

This strategy game is similar to the board game Risk, except that you don't get to place your initial armies and the map is built totally at random. The entire game is focused on combat. Because the map and initial placement of the armies is setup randomly, you'll never play the same game twice. Invade your neighboring countries, run a blitzkrieg through the board, and dominate the entire world! There are several points of strategy to learn before you can master the game, and after a victory, you can watch the entire history of the game in an instant replay.

Escape Game

There are numerous "escape" games floating around the interwebs. This one is of a medium difficulty while still being interesting and a little bizarre. You are in your office, but you've forgotten how to get out. You can move around the room with a simple point-and-click, and each section has a puzzle for you to solve. Search through every corner of your room and leave no stone unturned and you'll eventually manage to get out of your office.

Hero's Arms

This game is basically a short version of an early Zelda game. It's a bird's-eye perspective of an adventure game with real-time combat. You control Rix, a young boy who must save the world from a big armored guy named Gordzak. The story in incredibly ridiculous, but the game is a lot of fun. You start the game with a tiny shield and a stick for a weapon, but as you progress through the game you'll find new weapons, buy better armor, and all sorts of helpful items. There are several different monsters to slay, secrets to uncover, and bad bosses to defeat. The game saves your progress, so you can always take a break and come back for more.

Hoshi Saga

Hoshi Saga is a trilogy of games, and in each game there are 36 micro games. The objective of each micro game is to uncover a star hidden somewhere in the scene. Certain objects can be moved, pushed, pulled, spun, broken, etc. Your job is to figure out precisely what needs to be done. Some of the micro games are extremely simple, while others will have you scratching your head for hours.

Game 1 - Game 2 - Game 3 - Game 4 - Game 5

I Wish I Were the Moon

This is a storybook style game by Daniel Benmergui where you must discover all of the different endings of the story. You use a sort of cut-and-paste control with the mouse where you can grab objects and move them to other parts of the screen. When you move the objects, other objects will be affected as well which alter how the story unfolds. Some of the endings are sad, some are happy, but it's up to you to discover all 8 different endings.

Jumble Crosswords

Fans of both crossword puzzles and word jumbles will enjoy Jumble Crosswords. Clues are given along with the jumbled answer. For each crossword clue you complete you reveal a couple of the jumbled letters for the big final clue. The game scores you on how quickly you can figure out the clues, and by how many hints you needed. If you don't care for the computer interface, you can print out a traditional style format of the puzzle.

Learn to Fly

What happens when a penguin realizes that he can't fly? Well, he decides to learn to fly himself! You control the penguin who slides down an icy ramp on his belly and proceeds to launch himself into the air! After each jump you receive money relative to how far you "flew". This money will allow you to buy more equipment to help you fly further like hang gliders and rocket packs. Figure out the prefect trajectory to sail the penguin as high and as far as you possibly can to unlock every achievement in the game! Don't forget to enjoy the disgustingly cute intro.

The Majesty of Colors

This is another storybook style game, though more interactive. The game features a small amount of poetic dialog which adds flavor to the minimalist graphics. You play a massive sea monster with three eyes and one long sinewy tentacle. Where ever you click, your tentacle will follow and grab what ever you click on. The game has five different endings that are discovered based on your actions as a hulking sea-beast.

Peasant's Quest

This is a game for all of you fans of old Sierra classics like King's Quest and Space Quest. You'll now doubt find the graphics and game play awfully familiar, though the game is still enjoyable to new comers as well. It seems your pathetic hovel has been destroyed by Trogdor the Burninator! However, when you go to destroy him you realize that your way is blocked by an annoying knight. You must search the land high and low in order to fulfill his requirements to climb the mountain to destroy the evil dragon once and for all! The game is full of witticisms and clever--uh--cisms.

The Quest For the Rest

This is a short, but very whimsical puzzle exploration game made by Amanita Design. Each scene features a beautifully rendered interactive background set to the wonderful music of The Polyphonic Spree. To figure out what to do, move your mouse around the map. When the arrow turns to a hand, you'll know the object is interactive. Click the object and watch how the characters react to your interference. The objective is to get three band members of The Polyphonic Spree to meet their group at the end.

Samorost

This is another puzzle exploration game made by Amanita Design. The graphics of Samorost are an amalgam from photographs of trees, moss, driftwood, machines, and various unusual objects. This gives the game a wonderfully surreal look. The solid animation is very visible on the photographic background and really makes it stand out. The story starts with a little guy realizing that his spaceship is on a collision course with another ship that appears to be adrift. You must affect the background so that the little guy can get through each scene to find a way to prevent the collision. The game is short, but very sweet.

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Super Text Twist

If you're a fan of word scrambles you're going to love Super Text Twist. You are given a six-letter scrambled word and you must not only try to descramble the word, but also make every possible word that exists from the letters of the word. You can pass to the next level either by finding the big word, or by finding nearly all of the other words, but you must think fast because you only have a limited amount of time to work on it.

Today I Die

Daniel Benmergui again impresses me with his ability to make games that are more art than entertainment. Today I Die is an interactive poem where you must use the mouse cursor to alter the background to get new words to alter the poem. Each alteration affects the background creating a new obstacle for you to overcome. The art is pixelated, and the suicidal theme is quite macabre, yet playing the game makes me feel serene.

Totem Destroyer

This is a simple strategy game created by Gabriel Ochsenhofer where you must destroy a totem of blocks in an attempt to get golden idol safely to the lowest point without shattering it. It's a basic premise, but the levels continually increase in difficulty with blocks that cause bouncing, and very unstable structures. After you beat the game you can strive for the other nine achievements which take a lot of patience and skill to unlock.

Universal Crossword

Universal Crossword is just your typical run of the mill crossword puzzle on the computer. It features a new puzzle every day and has several options, like hints, and clues to make it as hard or as easy as you prefer. The interface is relatively simple to use, but if you don't like it, you can print the crossword out and play it as a traditional one. When you finish the game tells you how long it took you to complete the puzzle, and how many hints you needed.

White Jigsaw

Tried of putting together jigsaw puzzles with pretty pictures on them? Wouldn't you just prefer the excitement of a plain white puzzle? Well, okay, maybe the picture leaves a lot to be desired, but the game itself has a gimmick. It starts with only 12 pieces, and each time you solve the puzzle, it increases in pieces. The second level has 15 pieces, then 24, then 35, then 48, and so on. The ever-increasing difficulty gives the drab art a much more entertaining appeal.

Zwok

Remember playing Tank Wars? Scorched Earth? QB Gorillas? You know, all those games where you have to enter a angle and velocity to try and lob some artillery at your foe? Well, Zwok is an online Flash game that pits you up against players from around the world in a snowball fight. Launch various types of snowballs at the opposing team while dodging enemy fire in between rounds. The mouse will let you set your snowball's trajectory and use the arrow keys to move between throws.