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These sites have been chosen for the educational quality of their games--however, some sites might also include
some "shoot-'em-up" arcade games. Do NOT choose to play "arcade" games in the LRC or you will forfeit your computer privileges.
(A mind is a terrible thing to waste.)
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Archimedes� Laboratory
Home of many puzzles, optical illusions, droodles, tangrams, etc., etc. Amazing site. Don�t visit if you are trying to get work done elsewhere!
- The Arty Factory
Free online workshops for artists of any age. Each workshop has an interactive quiz or game.
- Brain Boosters
Need a daily brain teaser? Check out this collection.
- Color in Motion
Nifty site where videos painlessly teach vocabulary associated with color and other entertaining things.
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Could YOU Pass the U.S. Citizenship Test?
See how well you might do on the test folks have to take to become citizens of America.
- Daily Crossword
Printable.
- Daily Jigsaw Puzzle

- Daily Spelling Quiz
Designed to prepare students for the National Spelling Bee.
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Daily Sudoku

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Dance Mat Typing
Wish you could finish up your typed assignments faster? Make it through 12 levels of these lessons, and you�ll be on your way.
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Edheads
Work on simple machines, predicting weather, and even perform virtual surgery.
- Elemental
NEW LINK--Spring 2009! An intriguing BBC game. Try to beat
the "elements" by answering English, math, and science questions. The questions are challenging!
- Explore a Pyramid
An interactive National Geographic site where a �player� operates a robot to remotely explore an ancient pyramid.
- Flag Game
Allows the player to guess the name of the country
based on clues including; capital, continent, neighbors, map outline,
currency & anthem. Fun, but tough!
- The Fin, Fur, and Feather Bureau of Investigation
Games and missions from National Geographic.
- Free Rice
There are hungry people all over the world. Here is a creative way YOU can help.
Play a vocabulary game and provide rice to people who need food via the United Nations World Food Program.
- G-Cubed
Play Professor Garfield
in an interactive trivia game.
- Game a Day
This award-winning site posts daily games which aim to encourage critical thinking skills.
- Games for the Brain
This is fun...and good for your brain too.
- Guess Your Number Game
Can you figure out how this works!?
- Gut Instincts
Form a league with your friends and compete on questions in three categories � English, Math and Science.
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Hocus Pocus Palace
Some interesting stuff to look at here.
- Holiday Memory Puzzle
Test your memory skills on this entertaining game.
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Interactive Punctuation Test
Need practice on whether to use their, there, or they�re? You can find an online quiz here.
- International Child Art Jigsaws
Try these puzzles.
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Jigsaw Puzzles
Choose your challenge level.
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Kaleidoscope Painter
- Keybr.com--Typing at the Speed of Thought
Learning to type? This site will give you practice and let you know how you are progressing.
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Kid Jokes
Huge collection here.
- Knock-knock Jokes
- Last Laugh
Riddles, jokes and moaners.
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Magic Eye
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Mastermind
An old classic online.
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Math Playground
Award-winning. See why.
- Merriam-Webster's Word Game-of-the-Day
Offers an interesting word each day along with definition,
usage in a sentence, and audio pronunciation.
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Mia Cadaver�s Tombstone Time-Out
NEW LINK--Spring 2009!
This BBC game is a hoot with questions from English, math, and science. Will make you laugh�also think.
- More Brain Teasers
This collection is rated according to
difficulty.
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Nimble Fingers
Wondering how fast you type? Take a free typing test here.
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Online Games from Sheppard Software
Trivia quizzes and the like. Award-winning.
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Optical Illusions
This is pretty amazing.
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Peg Puzzle
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Peggy Solitaire

- Phantasy Quest
You are trapped on a desert island.
- The Reading Ring
Wrestle Dr. Stripp while arranging
comic strip panels in the correct order.
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Sand Art
Try your hand at this.
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Science and Math Games
Tricky games from Jefferson Lab. Everything from Hangman to Magic Math.
- Science of Music
From the Exploratorium--
online exhibits, movies, and questions. Visitors can "compose, mix, dance, drum, experiment, and above all�listen."
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Sentence Clubhouse
Identify sentences and build a clubhouse.
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SIMON--The Game
Click on "Play Simon" in the left column. Do NOT play the arcade games on this site.
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Simeon Magic Site
Challenge yourself with these tricks.
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Skillwise Games
This site is from Great Britain. Try the games and get smarter.
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Stereograms from the Yury Gallery #1
"Magic Eye" 3-D pictures.
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Stereograms from the Yury Gallery #2
"Magic Eye" 3-D pictures.
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More Stereograms
More "Magic Eye" 3-D pictures.
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Sudoku
Play the popular numbers game.
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The Sudoku Duck
If you are stuck on a puzzle, enter it here and the duck helps.
- Tiger Games
Are you a fan of tigers? You might enjoy these games created by the Minnesota Zoo and funded by the Save the Tiger Fund.
- Viscosity
Generate and post your own modern art. Click here for Instructions.
- Vocab Games K-12!
Interactive flash games including Hangman, Word Search, Language Match
Game, and Vocabulary Quiz. Maintained by Jacob Richman.
- Willing to Try
The creators of this site believe there is �more than one answer in the path to knowledge.� Enjoy. (You will need to allow �pop-ups� to experience this site.)
- Wordmaster
Beat the clock in this word game and become a better reader in the bargain.
- Yahoo Kid Jokes
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