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Online Tic-Tac-Toe Game
Play tic-tac-toe against the computer. Betcha can't win one!

The Kids' Corner
Try these easy crossword puzzles and have fun while increasing your vocabulary.

All Mixed Up
A hangman game suitable for school kids and ESL students. The graphics are very simple but it works well and there's no waiting for it to respond to your guesses.

Bumper Cows
Test your working memory. See how well you can remember and repeat a sequence of sounds and colors. Challenging for adults as well as kids.

Fun Grids 4 Kids
Young puzzlers can play a game of checkers against the computer It's a great way to develop strategy skills. Tetris, word search, and tic-tac-toe are also featured.

Gumshoe Online
Gumshoe Online is a private detective game that transports the player to the crime-ridden streets of 1930's America, a time when everyone has something to hide. With its setting, storylines and puzzles, it's for adventure gamers.

Karen's Puzzles and Numbers
From Coolmath.com, a great site for kids, teachers and parents. All kinds of math and mind bender puzzles of varying difficulty.

Kids' Place
Free games, activities, and resources for students studying math, reading, social studies, and science.

Learning from Puzzles
Puzzles are not only fun, but they promote your child's development in a variety of ways. You're never too young, says About's Guide to Baby Parenting.

Middle School Puzzle Page
From an Australian school. Picture puzzles as well as rebus puzzles and other activities for young students.

Pfunn
A site for kids with games, puzzles, trivia, word play, party ideas, and other fun stuff.

Rebus Rhymes
Designed for children who are learning to read. Preschoolers can pick out the words they recognise in their favorite Mother Goose nursery rhymes.

Square Dancing Bears
If you want a challenge, try to get the bears to complete a dance by moving the lady bears to the pink squares and the gentlemen bears to the blue squares. Many other intriguing puzzles are featured here. Bring the kids along. Great site for young and old.

The Why Files Quizzes
A variety of interactive quizzes to test younger puzzlers' knowledge of various subjects.

Win A Goldfish
Shoot the ping-pong balls into the fish bowls and win a virtual goldfish that you can download onto your computer. Feed the fish and watch it grow. Recommended.