Grow your own lovely balls, Fill your space. Don't touch little balls while you're growing! You can move while growing to avoid them. But with every level, there's more of the little brats...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Filler: math/geometry/visual puzzles
Grow your own lovely balls, Fill your space. Don't touch little balls while you're growing! You can move while growing to avoid them. But with every level, there's more of the little brats...
Count Cubes: math/critical thinking
Count the Cubes, via Coolmath Games
Game Instructions:
Count the number of cubes you think there are and input the number by clicking the number buttons.
Be careful... There could be cubes that you can't see!
Game Instructions:
Count the number of cubes you think there are and input the number by clicking the number buttons.
Be careful... There could be cubes that you can't see!
Super Stacker 2: physics/strategy/problem solving
Super Stacker 2, via Kongregate: fun stacking game
Click to place the shapes. Don’t let them fall off the screen! Your stack must survive 10 seconds or until the shapes feel happy that they won’t fall.
Right click for sound options.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Chocolatier: simulation w/arcade action
Oh, the gloriously rich and delectable life of a Chocolatier!
Constantly surrounded by mounds of chocolate bars and boxes of mouth-watering truffles! Build your empire one ingredient at a time as you travel the world to find the best prices and buy factories to maximize production! Manage your output and please your customers, but dont forget about those conniving competitors who wish you poorly!
Do you have what it takes to conquer the world through chocolate?
Over 130 quests.
14 cities to visit.
60 recipes to acquire.
Find more sweet treats in
Chocolatier 2: Secret Ingredients
World of Goo: physics simulation
World of Goo is a physics based puzzle / construction game. The millions of Goo Balls who live in the beautiful World of Goo don't know that they are in a game, or that they are extremely delicious.
Profitania: Economics simulation
I have hade some success with my high school Econ students using this game for extension activities/supplemental exploration/enrichment.
Profitania is the final part of LavaMind's business strategy series. It features gorgeous 3D imagery, rich sound and an extensive underground world to explore. You take on the role of an industrialist in the subterranean kingdom of Profitania, where your goal is to become a manufacturing powerhouse. The unique thing about Profitania is the real-time trading engine. In a fast-paced exciting rush of adrenaline, you must buy up the best goods on the commodity exchange before they disappear. Using these raw materials, you manufacture products to sell on the open market. Expanding your factories and researching new products, you compete against five other players in a race to become the leading underground industrialist.
Zapitalism: Economics Simulation
Not free, but worth the money
Zapitalism
Zapitalism combines beautifully rendered 3D graphic images with multi-player functionality in a game of business strategy. You will be able to make deals with the eccentric inhabitants of Zapinalia, invest in stocks & bonds, corner the market and construct mega stores. You can also venture out to explore the islands of Mermadan in search of treasure and mysterious relics. The first player to build a retail empire and outwit the competition wins. You can even play-by-email over the Internet with up to six players!
Zapitalism
Zapitalism combines beautifully rendered 3D graphic images with multi-player functionality in a game of business strategy. You will be able to make deals with the eccentric inhabitants of Zapinalia, invest in stocks & bonds, corner the market and construct mega stores. You can also venture out to explore the islands of Mermadan in search of treasure and mysterious relics. The first player to build a retail empire and outwit the competition wins. You can even play-by-email over the Internet with up to six players!
Gazillionaire: business simulation
Not free, but worth the money for an economics class: Gazillionaire III
"Gazillionaire is the award-winning simulation game. Explore new worlds, build your business, and make a fortune. Gazillionaire is full of memorable characters and exotic places to visit. You'll run your own company, manage a feisty crew, and, if you're clever enough, make billions of kubars!"
Download Gazillionaire (Try Free!)
Windows Vista, XP, 98, 2000, Me, NT
"Best Strategy Shareware Game of the Year" PC Computing
"Winner of the Golden Triad Award" Computer Game Review
"Shareware of the Year Awards Finalist" Computer Gaming World
"Gazillionaire is the award-winning simulation game. Explore new worlds, build your business, and make a fortune. Gazillionaire is full of memorable characters and exotic places to visit. You'll run your own company, manage a feisty crew, and, if you're clever enough, make billions of kubars!"
Download Gazillionaire (Try Free!)
Windows Vista, XP, 98, 2000, Me, NT
"Best Strategy Shareware Game of the Year" PC Computing
"Winner of the Golden Triad Award" Computer Game Review
"Shareware of the Year Awards Finalist" Computer Gaming World
Mix n Match: Exploratorium Online Exhibit, matching colors using RGB
The Exploratorium's online optics activity, Mix N Match is a blast.
Use sliders to match a color circle to a background color.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
ColorBOX: color mixing (physics of light)
COLOR box is a online puzzle game using the additive color system (color theory).
Instructions
•Press the left and right arrow keys to move the color
•Press the down arrow key to drop the color
•When a color is dropped, its color is added to the colors in adjacent squares
•Create white squares to score points. The more white squares you make at once, the higher your score
not easy, but fun
Friday, February 26, 2010
Jellyblocks: visual process strategy puzzles
Jellyblocks
http://www.addictinggames.com/jellyblocks.html
Description: Sticky blocks in sticky situations. Make just the right moves to get these blocks to stick together.
Untangle: unravel angles
Untangle, via Addicting Games
http://www.addictinggames.com/untangle.html
Click on a vertex to grab and drag it--when all the lines are no longer crossing, you've completed the puzzle.
Free, online, multiple levels, no language
Red Remover: strategy/physics
http://www.addictinggames.com/redremover.html
remove only the red blocks
Factory Balls: task processing/logic
http://www.smart-kit.com/games/factory-balls/
create patterned balls by designing a sequence of tasks
Blox: visual strategy puzzles
http://www.smart-kit.com/games/blox/
click on the blue boxes to change the direction arrows
Flood Fill: strategy/problem solving
http://www.smart-kit.com/games/flood_fill/
Flood Fill
online puzzle game, free with lots of ads
fill in regions so that no two adjacent regions are the same color
Azada 2: Ancient Magic
literature based puzzles game
Robinson Crusoe
Journey to Center of the Earth
Time Machine
Jekyll and Hyde
and more
walkthrough available
(photo shows puzzle from the Robinson Crusoe puzzle set)
Electric Box: strategy puzzles/problem solving
It’s time to think outside the box.
Electric Box is a unique styled puzzle game where you have to connect power from the power supply to the set target.
Enjoy the game.
(annoying ads but free to use)
Azada
"Trapped in a magical puzzle book, the adventurous Titus needs your help to release him from his spell. To do this, you must solve the tricky puzzles of Azada. Crack the series of puzzles and fill in the missing pages of the enchanted book to free Titus from his prison. Loads of unique puzzles to solve, boss puzzles and surprises along the way, hidden clues unlock levels. Have fun!"
Azada puzzles:
Tower of Hanoi (multiple levels)
tangrams
visual matching
matchstick moving
Strategy Guide available here:http://www.bigfishgames.com/download-games/1723/azada-strategy-guide/index.html
Walkthrough available here: http://gamewalkthrough.blogspot.com/2007/07/azada-walkthrough.html
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