PuzzGrid

If you've ever seen the hit TV Quiz show Only Connect and wanted to play along at home then this is the puzzle site for you. This site contains many "connecting walls" to play, as well as the facility to submit your own puzzles. Incidentally, you can play the official grids here.

All PuzzGrid needs now is a few Victoria Coren monologues...

FreeRice

This is quite a simple game: you are given a word and have to pick the correct definition, if you get it right you score 10, otherwise you score 0, repeat ad infinitum. However for each point you score the FreeRice people donate a grain of rice to third world countries.
The game tracks how verbose you are too and assigns you a different difficulty of word depending on your past ability. Each time you get three answers in a row right you go up a level, each time you get an answer wrong you go down a level (nb. this only kicks in after you've answered a few questions). My average level was about 29/30, and my maximum level reached was 37. The difficulty of each word is determined by how many people got it right and wrong, and so may change over time too.
The rice is paid for by the advertising on the site, and is donated to third world countries via the United Nations World Food Program.

IQ Test

So this blog has been going much longer than I imagined it would. This is post number 100! (That's an excited 100 as opposed to 100 factorial which is a lot bigger). To tie in with the one hundred theme here is a game where 100 is the average score - an IQ test. Admittedly it's an inaccurate measure, and favours more numerate people rather than more intelligent people.

The picture is from my first try, for which I scored 160/160, without understanding several of the questions. Good luck!

PastMaster

Test your historical general knowledge and try to traverse from one side of the board to the other.

I managed to fail twice at level one before making it to level two. Perfect training if you're thinking of being on Eggheads!
 

50 Dark Movies Hidden In A Painting

If you liked the Ultimate Film Desktop then chances are you'll like this too. There are fifty spooky movies hidden in the painting and the aim is to work out what they all are. When you think you know one you can click on it and type your answer in. The box will go green if you're right, red if you're wrong (or it's mispelt).

You can also save your progress by putting an email address in (it doesn't have to be a real email address), but you need to find the @ button, which is 'Shift' and '2' for anyone with British keyboards.

The Impossible Quiz

Funny, loud, and almost a quiz. The impossible quiz requires you to think laterally and often to simply guess. Some of the levels are about speed while others are more about thinking. I've managed to get to level 60 or so, let me know if you do better!

I think this takes a looong time to load, so if you've got a slow connection maybe try a different game. Many thanks to Paul for telling me about this one.

50 States

Drag and drop the states of america into place. Try to keep your total error distance and the time you take down to a minimum! I want to see the same thing done for counties of Great Britain! I think the first time I did this I got 80% placed correctly, which I was quite chuffed with, although to be fair I did it mainly like a jigsaw puzzle.

 

The Ultimate Film Desktop

You may well remember the Virgin music quiz thing where you have to find as many band names in the picture as you can. Well this is very similar, but with film titles. I liked it a lot more, because on the whole the films aren't all that obscure (whereas I'd never heard of maybe half of the bands). Anyway, there's 100 to find, go knock yourselves out.