On Site Family Puzzles and Arcade Games

• Bubble Wrap Pop - relax and pop some bubbles!
• Concentration / Memory Match - match up pairs of letters
• Jigsaw Puzzles - choose your number of pieces, shapes, designs
  Butterfly, candy hearts, Santa Claws, Snowman, diamond heart
  
  
  
  
• Arcade Games - on site! Aqua Energizer, Office Paintball, more
  

Play Puzzles Online!

by Robin Nobles

In the cold winter months when you're looking for something to do, try your hand at playing online puzzles. You'll find a large assortment of sites that offer free puzzles at varying difficulty levels, so let's visit a few.

At the JigZone, you can play online jigsaw puzzles and choose your level of difficulty, from a simple puzzle of 6 pieces to a complex puzzle of 247 pieces. Join their list and receive a free puzzle through e-mail every day. You can even upload your own photos and have them made into jigsaw puzzles.

http://www.jigzone.com/

Web Puzzler is a neat site where you solve the puzzles by rearranging the pieces, two at a time. It's easy to play, fast, and fun.

http://imagiware.com/puzzle/

If you enjoy crossword puzzles, visit Online Crosswords, where you click on a square to see clues for the word. You can even download crossword applets and create your own online crossword puzzles . . . free.

http://www.clearlight.com/~vivi/xw/

The site also offers word search puzzles, some with animated Flash previews.

http://www.clearlight.com/~vivi/xw/wordsearch.html

Visit DiscoverySchool's Puzzlemaker and let your kids make their own crossword puzzles, or make them for a class. Choose between mazes, word search, math square, letter tiles, and more.

http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/

At CRPuzzles, you can play Picture Scrabble, or solve Logic Problems developed by a popular logic puzzle creator. Or, you can play Memory Match, MorphWords, and Word Mine Puzzles, all online and all free.

http://crpuzzles.com/

For new puzzles every single day, visit Thinks.com, which offers an amazing assortment of online games and puzzles. You'll find categories like Crossword Central, Words & Word Play, Quizzical Quotes, and Karaoke Online. The site also offers puzzles and games for kids, such as an online paper doll or Mr. Potato (or even Mr. Lemon!).

http://thinks.com/

Visit the Puzzle House for 110 free online jigsaw puzzles. Choose from categories such as Fine Art, Scenery, or People, and pick your level of difficulty.

http://www.puzzlehouse.com/_onlinepuzzles/onlinepuzzlesmain.htm

ABCTeach offers interactive crossword puzzles for kids in areas like Rain Forest, Charlotte's Web, and Coral Reef. Difficult puzzles are marked with a green asterisk, and super easy puzzles
are available for very young children.

http://abcteach.com/wordpuzzles/OnlineCrossMenu.htm

Finally, math buffs will love Archimedes' Lab Puzzles, where they can find directions for making puzzles like a Paper Pyramid or a Slidikon Puzzle. Or, solve online math puzzles and win prizes. Believe me, this site is challenging!

http://www.archimedes-lab.org/

She also teaches onsite search engine marketing workshops with John Alexander http://www.beyond-seo.com/workshop.htm), and she has written three books that can be ordered through Amazon. Or, visit Robin's personal Web site at http://www.robinsnest.com.

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