Other Fun Games & Things

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Variations of Chess:

Advanced Chess (a.k.a. Strong Pawn)--not to be confused with the man/computer form of chess
Bughouse--chess for four
Chess Variants--lots of recognized variations on the royal game
Detective Chess--chess meets Minesweeper
Fischer Random (a.k.a. Chess960)--back rank pieces are shuffled
Kriegspiel--'Battleship'-style chess using a referee
Monster Chess (a.k.a. Super King)--Black has fewer pieces, but gets two moves per turn
Progressive Chess--number of moves per turn increases with each turn
Variants on ICC--play these online

Games of Asia:

Shogi (Japanese chess)
Chinese chess (a.k.a. xiangqi)
Ludo (a.k.a. Parcheesi)--national game of India
MoreJongg--a solitaire version of MahJongg
Go-Moku--similar to Pente  
Go (a.k.a. Wei Qi or Baduk)--as challenging as chess
British Go Association
American Go Association
Chinese checkers (a.k.a. Halma)

Classic Games:

Backgammon
Bridge (click here for free learn-to-play software)
Card Games
Checkers online
Cribbage
Diplomacy--a description
Dominoes online
Gin rummy
Networdz (Scrabble) free download
The Online Guide to Traditional Games
Othello (a.k.a. Reversi)
Yahtzee

Miscellaneous Games:

Armchair Cricket
BBC History Games
Bethump'd--word games
Beyond Balderdash
BoardGameGeek.com--slow-loading directory of over 5,000 games...well worth it!
Capture the Flag--the great outdoor team game
Carmen Sandiego
Charades--rules
Clue--a taste online
Cranium online
The Farming Game--more fun than Monopoly!
Fictionary (a.k.a. Dictionary)--play online (description)
Games.com--arcade games & more
Games Kids Play--rules to playground games
Mad Checkers
Mancala--ancient African game with many names
Mensa Select--award-winning games
Nine Men's Morris
100 games/year reviewed by Games Magazine--since 1980
Oxford word game ideas for parties
PacMan
PartyGameCentral.com--tons of ideas
Pictionary--Charades on paper...a blast
Scotland Yard
Set--visual perception card game
Settlers of Catan--review
Squint (similar to Pictionary)--review
Stratego--boardgame version of Capture the Flag
Tetris
Trivial Pursuit
World Village Games--several cool ones
Yahoo Games, of course
Yahooligans Games--geared for kids
Zillions of Games--expandable PC gaming system

Puzzles/Brain Teasers:

A Game A Day
Archimedes' Laboratory
Concentration
Crossword Puzzle Compiler--make your own
5-Star Word Engine
FunBrain.com--painless quizzes
Golf Puzzle
Jigzone
Logic Mazes.com
Logic Problems
Logical Journey of the Zoombinis--review
Mastermind 
Puzzle Choice
Puzzle House--online jigsaws
Puzzle Parlor
Puzzles.com (the puzzle site of Binary Arts)
Rubik's Cube--the solution
Rush Hour
Tangram puzzles
Word games online

Destination Imagination/Odyssey of the Mind links:

Creative Problem Solvers--instant challenges
Destination Imagination--tournament challenges/online instant challenges
How Everyday Things Are Made--Stanford
How Stuff Works
Invention at Play
Mind Games lessons
Odyssey of the Mind--practice problems
Reggie's Instant Challenge Playhouse
Spirit of Chicago--collection of instant challenges

Magazines/Publishers/Designers/Competitions:

Conceptis Puzzles
Cyan--creators of Myst, Riven and Exile
DiscoverGames.com--a site for game inventors
Everett Kaser Software--'Honeycomb Hotel' & others
Family Pastimes--cooperative games
Games magazine--the classic, a must
The Great Games of Sid Sackson
The Journal of Recreational Mathematics
Labyrinth Games--puzzle books publisher
Looney Labs--creators of Fluxx
Mind Sports Olympiad
Rio Grande Games
University of Alberta--game designers
World Boardgamers Championships

Places to Shop for Games:

Brain-Builders
Funagain Games
Are You Game
Ebay (of course)--search by title

Miscellaneous/Educational:

AccuWeather
All Music's jazz reference material
Animal Planet
Ben's Guide to U.S. Government
BirdSource
BrainPop
Carole King--listen to her new album
"Chess and the Laws of Physics"--Gott quotes Feynmann
Columbia Encyclopedia online
CoolMath4Kids
eMedicine.com
eNature.com
Exploratorium online exhibits
Eyewitness to History
FigureThis--math problems
4-H in the USA
Funschool--games for 5th/6th graders
GeoExplorer 
Geography games
Girls on the Run
GLOBE--kids partnering with scientists
HealthyTeeth.org
How to Love Your Dog--a kid's guide to dog care
HubbleSite.org--gorgeous pics from space
Hyperhistory--online timeline
KBPS--All Classical 89.9
Kids' Castle
Lonely Planet's cool world travel info
Magic Schoolbus
McGruff.org--helping kids stay safe
Metropolitan Museum of Art--awesome explore & learn site
Michael Palin's amazing travels
The Mint--money management for kids
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Music History 102--Western Classical
MythWeb.com--kids' version of the ancient story of
The Odyssey!
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA Observatorium
National Geographic Kids
Nature (PBS) activities for kids
New York Times daily news quiz
NOAA government weather info
OPB TV program schedule
OregonHiking.com
Oregon Symphony
Oxford Dictionary
1900 House
PBS 'The Greeks'
PBS NewsHour for kids
PetEducation.com
Play a Game of Chess Day (Nov. 1)--send an e-card
POV-Ray--free software for creating cool math-based art
Python--a great, free programming language
Rocks for Kids
Smithsonian Encyclopedia
Snow Finder
Solar System Simulator
Stanford Jazz
Translator tools
The Why Files--the science behind the news
Young Composers

Just Plain Fun:

Bocce Ball
Bugs Prochaska
Go Tennis
The Horrible Zone--Scholastic UK funny history
Junior Iditarod
Just4Girls--Girl Scouts' site
Kevin Burke--the great Irish fiddler
Kids Fun Canada--classic fairy tales in Flash & more
Looney Tunes--home of Bugs, Daffy & friends
Mark O'Connor Trio--flaming hot jazz/fiddle
MP3.com--download or listen to many styles of music and 50 radio channels
Muppet Central
MysteryNet--kids' mysteries
Mystery Photos--make your guess
Narnia on the web!
Oregon Shakespeare Festival--Ashland
Peanuts.com
Portland Highland Games--don't miss the fiddle competition
Shrewsbury Renaissance Faire--Philomath, Oregon
Sony Essentials of Music--classical music basics
Spaghetti Book Club
TouchPaint.com
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