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Online Games - March 2008

Power Boat Racing

March 31st 2008 12:23

This fantastic Power Boat Racing game from miniclip has all the ingredients of a great racing game. There are various modes of play - race, slalom or dodge mode. In the main race mode, you take on two other boats to try and be the first to the finish. On the way there are power ups to collect such as speed boosts and cash. Just as important to winning is the art of taking corners!

The controls are nice and simple, just use the arrow keys.

Genre: Racing
Time to Play: 10 mins
Difficulty: Medium
Available From: Miniclip
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Battleship

March 28th 2008 12:23

The game Battleship is a guessing game played by two people. Although popularized in the United States as a commercial board game, first published in 1931 by the Starex Novelty Company of New York under the name of "Salvo", it is known throughout the world as a pencil and paper game and predates the First World War in this form. It was published by Milton Bradley Company in 1943 as the pad-and-pencil game "Broadsides, the Game of Naval Strategy".

You can play Battleship for free online from games.adoption.com here.
The rules for this particular version are:

Start by picking a box in the grid on the left. If it is blue it is a miss. If it is red, that means you hit a portion of a ship. Click the boxes around a hit until you have destroyed an entire ship. The first player to destroy all of the other player’s 11 ships wins.

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The Game of Life

March 26th 2008 12:15

The original Game of Life board game has been around in various forms since the 1860s. The modern version began in about 1960. If you liked or think you would like the board game then the new online version if definitely for you! You can download and play the Game of Life now from download-free-games.com here.

The online version of the Game of Life is proving to be extremely popular. Below are just a couple of reviews from people who have tried it.

The game of life is a game that you will so love! It is for everybody so you don't have a chance not liking it. You pick out certain things then drive around in a car around...."your life". On which squares you land on it means Depending on how well and how fast you complete the game that's how it's decided who wins. At the end you choose all these different things. And since "your life" changes every time you won't get bored. It's a game that you can keep playing over and over again!

This game has the coolest features, great pictures and animations. It is just like the real board game, only better because you can play with a computer player and you don't have to clean everything up when you are done playing. The first time I tried the game of LIFE I thought it was fantastic I ended up playing over and over. I also think this is one of the best interactive games on the internet, you should try it!!

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Checkers

March 24th 2008 12:05

Checkers or Draughts is played by two people, on opposite sides of a playing board, alternating moves. One player has dark pieces, and the other has light pieces. Most commonly, the board alternates between red and black squares. Pieces move diagonally and pieces of the opponent are captured by jumping over them.

Rules:

Board - The board is an 8×8 grid, with alternating dark and light squares, called a checkerboard (in the US, in reference to its checkered pattern, also the source of the name checkers). The playable surface consists of the 32 dark squares only. A consequence of this is that, from each player's perspective, the left and right corners encourage different strategies.
Pieces - The pieces are usually made of wood and are flat and cylindrical. They are invariably split into one darker and one lighter colour. Traditionally, these colours are red and white. There are two kinds of pieces: "men" and "kings". Kings are differentiated as consisting of two normal pieces of the same colour, stacked one on top of the other. Often indentations are added to the pieces to aid stacking.
Starting Position - Each player starts with 12 pieces on the three rows closest to their own side, as shown in the diagram. The row closest to each player is called the "crownhead" or "kings row". The black (darker colour) side moves first.
How to Move - There are two ways to move a piece: simply sliding a piece diagonally forwards (also diagonally backwards in the case of kings) to an adjacent and unoccupied dark square, or "jumping" one of the opponent's pieces. In this case, one piece "jumps over" the other, provided there is a vacant square on the opposite side for it to land on. Again, a man (uncrowned piece) can only jump diagonally forwards, and a king can also move diagonally backwards. A piece that is jumped is captured and removed from the board. Multiple-jump moves are possible if, when the jumping piece lands, there is another piece that can be jumped. Jumping is mandatory and cannot be passed up to make a non-jumping move, nor can fewer than the maximum jumps possible be taken in a multiple-jump move. When there is more than one way for a player to jump, one may choose which sequence to make, not necessarily the sequence that will result in the most amount of captures. However, one must make all the captures in that sequence. (Under traditional draughts rules jumping is not mandatory. If it is not done, the opponent may either force the move to be reversed, huff the piece or carry on regardless.)
Kings - If a player's piece moves into the kings row on the opposing player's side of the board, that piece is said to be "crowned" (or often "kinged" in the US), becoming a "king" and gaining the ability to move both forwards and backwards. If a player's piece jumps into the kings row, the current move terminates; having just been crowned, the piece cannot continue on by jumping back out (as in a multiple jump), until the next move.
How the Game Ends - A player wins by capturing all of the opposing player's pieces, or by leaving the opposing player with no legal moves.

You can play Checkers or Draughts for free online from Flyordie.com here. Sign up for free and join one of the open rooms.

*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article English draughts.

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Dogfight

March 21st 2008 11:10

Your mission in this World War I aerial shooter is to pilot your Sopwith Camel against Germany's finest . Shoot down enemy aircraft and destroy ground forces to progress. Avoid enemy fire and flying into the ground.

Control your airplane with the UP and DOWN ARROW KEYS and use SPACEBAR to fire your machine gun. Dogfight has a one or two player version. In the two play version, player 2 users W and S to control the plane while left shift fires. Player 1 also uses ENTER to fire instead of SPACE.

The controls in Dogfight are very smooth, just don't go too close to the ground or you might crash. As you progress through the game the number of enemies to kill becomes more and more, but with a bit of practice you'll take them down!

Genre: Flying / Aerial
Time to Play: 15 mins
Difficulty: Easy
Available From: funny-games.biz
Play Dogfight here.

Free dogfight flying aerobatic online game

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Motocross Fever

March 19th 2008 10:42

Race to the chequered flag as fast as you can and perform tricks on the way to earn the most points. If you perform tricks one after the other you'll earn bonus combo points!

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Trivial Pursuit

March 17th 2008 10:22

Trivial Pursuit is a board game where progress is determined by a player's ability to answer general knowledge, and popular culture questions. The game was created in 1979 by Scott Abbott, a sports editor for the Canadian Press, and Chris Haney, of Welland, Ontario, a photo editor for the Montreal Gazette. After finding pieces of their Scrabble game missing, they decided to create their own game. With the help of John Haney and Ed Werner, they completed development of the game, which was released in 1982.

As of 2004, nearly 88 million games had been sold in 26 countries and 17 languages. Northern Plastics of Elroy, Wisconsin produced 30 million games between 1983 and 1985

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Online Cluedo

March 14th 2008 12:04

At the beginning of play, three cards — one Suspect, one Weapon, and one Room card — are chosen at random and put into a special envelope, so that no one can see them. These cards represent the true facts of the case. The remainder of the cards are distributed among the players.

The aim is to deduce the details of the murder; that is, the cards in the envelope. There are six different characters, six possible murder weapons and nine different rooms (typically Hall, Lounge, Dining Room, Kitchen, Ballroom, Conservatory, Billiard Room, Library, and Study), giving 324 possible solutions. In the course of determining the details of the murder, players announce suggestions to the other players, for example, "I suggest it was Mrs. White, in the Library, with the Rope." All elements contained in the suggestion are moved into the room in the suggestion

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Posted By: Ian - Category: Puzzle

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Interactive Boggle

March 12th 2008 11:51

Boggle is played with a tray of 16 letter dice, which is shaken to get 16 random letters. In Interactive Boggle, the computer randomly generates this grid for you.
Players have three minutes (shown by the countdown timer) to find as many words as they can in the grid, according to the following rules:
* The letters must be adjoining in a 'chain'. (Letter cubes in the chain may be adjacent horizontally, vertically, or diagonally

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Transformers: The Game

March 10th 2008 14:58

Transformers: The Game is a video game based on the 2007 film Transformers.

The game allows the player to choose to play as the Heroic Autobots or as the Evil Decepticons. Each faction has its own storyline. The Autobots story follows the original movie's plotline while the Decepticons storyline follows an alternate story

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Dungeons & Dragons Online

March 7th 2008 11:11

Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach (abbreviated as "DDO") is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Turbine, Inc. Turbine has developed DDO as an online adaptation of Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&'D). DDO is based loosely on the D&'D 3.5 Ruleset and set in the Eberron campaign setting.

DDO is set on the fictional continent of Xen'drik, in the world of Eberron. Eberron is a campaign world, developed by Keith Baker for Wizards of the Coast. Players can create their characters following the revised edition of D&'D 3.5 rule-set fashion, and play them in both indoor and outdoor environments, including a large variety of dungeons

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EverQuest II

March 5th 2008 10:58

EverQuest II (EQ2), based upon the popular EverQuest, is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). It features graphics and gameplay vastly updated from its predecessor as well as NPCs that use audio for speech.

EverQuest II is set on the fictional world of Norrath five hundred years after the storyline of the original EverQuest game. The gods withdrew from the world in retaliation for mortal incursions into their planes. On Norrath itself, Dark Elves and the Orcs destroyed much of Faydwer; while the Ogres, Goblins, Orcs, and Giants ravaged Antonica. Transport and communication to the moon Luclin were cut off

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EverQuest

March 3rd 2008 10:30

EverQuest, often called EQ, is a 3D fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG).
From 2000 until 2004, EverQuest was the most popular MMORPG. EverQuest has earned many awards, including GameSpot's Game of the Year Award for 1999.
A sequel, EverQuest II, was released in late 2004

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