Online Game Play Reviews

Live Search Club - Free Games With Prizes

Although it is a branding ploy for Windows Live Search, the Live Search Club has some nice offerings game-wise. As a bonus, you earn “tickets” which are redeemable for prizes like ring tones, music downloads, XBOX games and accessories and lots more.

Chicktionary is a free online word game where you use a set of scrambled letters to make list of words. Make enough words to fill the list and you win! I have one complaint about this game, which is that it seems to use some pretty archaic words sometimes. This can make it pretty frustrating trying to complete the puzzle. They do offer a “hint” button, but it’s only usable for a limited amount of time. I guess they have to make it difficult though, since it is a game that gives you tickets for completing the word puzzle.

Clink is another free online word game. In this game, you match words with phrases. You start with a list of clues for each phrase. Using the clues you “drag and drop” words from a word list to complete the phrases. Each phrase has a word in common with the phrase above and below it. This is a fun a game, and you can easily get help using the Live Search which is right underneath all of the games as you play them.

Crosswire is a fact matching trivia game played in three rounds. After choosing a category, from two initial categories, you are then presented with two side-by-side lists. One list is of people, places or things; the other list is a list of facts. The object of the game is that you must match each fact to the appropriate people/place/thing. This is another game made easy by using the search feature.

Dingbats is another free online word game that plays a lot like the final round of “Wheel of Fortune.” In Dingbats you must solve three “guess the letters that make up the answer” type of puzzles. Each puzzle has a fact underneath it that pertains to the answer. You are allowed to guess consanants which, if they are part of the words in the puzzles, fill in the blanks. For each puzzle you solve, you get to pick a symbol which will reveal vowels in the words of the puzzle.

With the Live Search feature integrated into these games, it actually turns them into (somewhat) educational games. If you get guilty about playing hours and hours of online games maybe this will put your mind at ease; as at least you’re learning something while playing, making it somewhat productive…. or something like that :)

If you like to play free online word games and trivia games then you’ll want to check these games out. After all, playing these will get you free stuff as well… bonus!

Link: Windows Live Club Games

3D Logic - Free Online Puzzle Game

A colleague of mine sent me a link to this game and I spent the next hour playing through the 30 levels. This is a great example of a game that has a simple concept and simple mechanics, yet is still challenging enough to hold the player captive.

Don’t assume it’s a ‘Rubic’s Cube’ type of game, even though it looks like one! The object of the game is simple. You must link together the like-colored tiles located on the surface of a 3-dimensional cube. You link the tiles by selecting an initial colored tile and then dragging the mouse across a three dimensional path of the cube until you meet the other similar colored tile.

Sounds easy enough, right? Well, it is in the early rounds. The first couple of puzzles seem to exist just to get the player used to the movement of the puzzle and the concept of the game. The solutions to these early puzzles are obvious, as there is only one path to link each of the pairs.

The difficulty seems to jump at level 10 and level 20 and there are two sticky puzzles in the middle of those difficulties: level 16 and level 23. Have fun with those!

There are no level or diffficulty selections for this game, so it’s basically a straight through type of game. You can continue from where you left off if you leave early and come back to the game later.

As far as replay value goes, I suppose it depends on your memory. The lower levels are easily whipped through after you’ve played them once. Those sticky levels (16 & 23) will get you every time though (unless you memorize the pattern).

All in all, I think it was worth the hour of play. YMMV.

Here’s the link: 3D Logic Free Online Puzzle Game

Welcome To My Tumblelog!

If you’re anything like me, you spend way too much time online playing games. I’ve set up this tumblelog as my home base, so to speak, for keeping track of all the great (and not so great) games I run into online. I’ll be reviewing all types of web games: online word games, online puzzle games, online action games, online simulation games… really, any and all types of online games.

If you enjoy playing Flash or Java type web games, then you’ll want to stick around to get the low down on all of the games I’ve come across.

I’m always in search of new games to review as well, so if there is a web game you absolutely love playing, send a note my way, I’d love to check it out.

Hope to hear from you all soon.

-Robert