Multiperson Jigsaw

What could be more fun than an online jigsaw?
Answer: A multiperson jigsaw of course!
Just when you thought you'd got some of those pieces in the right place some fool moves them all! Actually it's good fun, and most of the time feels like you're bonding with someone over an respectible old-fashioned pastime (without actually talking to them).

Rock Paper Scissors 25

Click on "Play This Game" to experience the wonderful world of RPS25. If you want to know more about the history of the game (it's actually very entertaining!) then there's the official (I think) page here.
Possibly even more exciting still is the new addition to the site - RPS101! Now over a hundred different hand gestures, and under one percent chance of a draw! So the next time you need to make a decision in a hurry, you should consider RPS101.

Slime Cricket

This is quite an old game now, but it's still good fun. Find a friend, and then while away the hours with some good old fashioned cricket (nb. it's actually not much like cricket at all).

 

Counties of Great Britain

Which counties have you been to? I think you have to have stayed overnight at the place to have 'been there', so places along the M6 you've driven through don't count.
Here's my map though I've forgotten a couple of places from when I was younger.

 

Diet coke + mints = ...

Before watching the video linked to on the left (experiment 214) you should probably watch the ones building up to it!
Experiment 6
Experiment 10
Experiment 13A
Experiment 137

Grow 2.0

So following on from Grow Cube, here is Grow version 2, which is a predecessor of it. It's very short, and fairly weird, but the idea is exacly the same - click on things in the right order to make stuff happen. I'm pretty sure that if you get to the stage depicted to the right, then you've already gone wrong!

 

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.

 

Grow Cube

There's quite a lot of puzzles like this one on this site. Drag and drop items onto the cube, and watch it "grow". The challenge is to get all the items to maximum level. Weird, but very fun! Look out for more games from this site popping up here soon (when I've had chance to test them all!)

 

Visited Countries

Make a map of countries you've visited (like on Paula's blog). Here is mine, and here is an old one of mine from 2005. It should blatantly allow you to distinguish between the bits of Great Britain, because I've never been to Scotland or Northern Ireland.

 

UglyOverload

You may have seen the much acclaimed CuteOverload (eg. here on Sarah's blog), but here is UglyOverload! A brilliant site with pictures of some of the world's weirdest looking animals. It should be noted (and applauded) that all the animals on the site are naturally 'ugly'.

 

Stickman Odo

If you get worried when you don't understand what a game is about then this game might concern you a bit. Basically the aim is to do stuff without dieing. It doesn't take very long to complete, and I don't get what level 3 (the one in plan view) is about.

 

The White Chamber

The White Chamber is an escape from the room game, and is made by the same people as The Crimson Room and The Viridian Room. However it is less weird than both of those, and for a change it's possible to solve just using logic and a bit of guesswork. Also there aren't that many tiny things you have to click on (I can only think of one key that's difficult to spot).
 

Tetris 1D

A whole new take on the classic game of Tetris. Be sure to check out the high score table. This game is definitely in competition with clock patience and Don't Shoot The Puppy, for most fun game ever.


 

Chinese Pictionary

Here's a game which our cell last year played lots, and which we called Chinese Pictionary. They've called it The Sentence Game, but it's still the same thing. Draw a picture to match a caption, or write a caption for an existing picture, this repeats until the start and end captions are completely different, and then the results are published in the archives folder.
Brilliant!

Surname Map

Plot maps of surname frequency. See how your surname has dispersed between 1881 and 1998. Probably most people will think this is really sad, but I thought it was neat. Bonus points for anyone who can work out who's surname is in the picture here!

 

Clock Patience

The world's most pointless game brought to you here as online entertainment. Be enthrawled as you match the card to it's corresponding hour marker, gasp as yet another king comes crashing down and cheer as you finally manage to get round to closing your browser and throwing your computer out of the window.

 

Hike24 - It's happening again

It's back again. For those of you that missed the first or second hikes, here's your chance to support Team Hike 24 as they raise much needed money for a trip to work on an orphanage in Recife, Brazil this Summer. They set off on the hike on the 3rd of June at 5am, so keep yourself glued to the site for all the latest thrills and spills.

 

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.
 

Ask a ninja

This site is possibly the worst laid out site I've ever seen, but the videos are really funny. If you have anything you've ever wanted to know about ninjas then this site is the place to ask. I think the easiest way to get to the videos is to go to http://www.askaninja.com/tags/question-1 then change the number in the address to whatever question number you wish to view.
 

Time For Bed?

How much sleep does the average child need in comparison to a variety of animals? Complete with realistic sound effects and exciting facts.

Grat.