Msn.com offers educational games like Chicktionary and cash games like Bejeweled 2. Yahoo.com lets you get Lost preview. You may even try to win one million dollars on I Cannot Believe It's Not Butter.

Do you prefer your game to be fast and simple or graphically rich with commercial breaks? Which one wins your gaming palate Chuzzle or Two Three?

The Game Two Three is located on Yahoo quick play games and it was developed by Armor Games. Two Three is ready fast because there is nothing to download nor any commercials. The game Two Three's strength comes from its minimalist approach toward graphics and speed of action paired with adrenaline pumping music. All you use are the numbers 2 and 3 for shooting numbers and the mouse for aiming. It is a bare bones of a game but it works.

The Deadline for Earning a Chuzzle badge is April 30 on MSN.com games. The Chuzzle game has rich graphics, satisfying sounds of train whistle and critters that sneeze and the very impressive lock down that occasionally imprisons a critters behind bars. Your goal is to collect critters of the same color in clusters of three or more. The game is fun and almost hypnotic.

My advice would be to play both games since they are free.

Msn.com has numerous games some are free and some are cash games.

Chicktionary

You can play Chicktionary for free. This is a delightful and comical word game but it is also educational. Chicktionary supplies you with a couple of letters. Your goal is to spell as many different words as you can. When you choose a letter, the chicken drops an egg and one letter while it makes a PAH sound.

While you are trying to spell a word the chickens are fidgeting in their nests. One chicken flaps a wing while another blinks and a third chicken kicks the air with its feet. The urge to giggle starts to increase. It is interesting that the game developers added the psycholgical aspect for the dislike of waiting. Don't keep the chickens waiting.

The unique aspect of Chicktionary is the active display of the search engine. After you spell a word and press enter the search engine finds a page on related links. If you press hint a word is chosen which activates the search engine. Type the word caine and you will see links to the bible, LeRoy E. Cain from the space shuttle program, Cain's Ballroom and Deckard Caine from the Urban Dictionary. The links are active so that you can further investigate NASA or the Urban Dictionary.

Cash Games

You can win real cash just playing one of their many games. There are the arcade games, word games, card games and strategy games. If you play Bejeweled 2 you can win $10,000. That sounds exciting.

I tried to play Bejeweled 2 and I was instructed to install Active X Control. I clicked to install the program. Then I downloaded the game which took a couple of minutes to complete. I have internet by sattelite and ot took about four minutes which means it would be an agonizing wait by dial up internet access. Colorful graphics made the gems look like candy. I tried to match the gems on horizontal and vertical rows by switching adjacent gems. Music added to the excitement of the game. The first time I played it I earned 600 points and the second time I played Bejeweld I earned 900 points. The problem with a 900 point score is that I could only beat 4 % of the online players.

The AHA Moment Arrived

I tried to play Word Mojo, another cash game, this was a word game that was stress inducing game. I had to install Active X Control again before the game and wai a few minutes to install the game. The graphics were nice Pagoda theme but the music was frantic.

I tried to play Tile City, a Mah Jongg game but the website politely asked that I upgrade my membership. Sounds simple. If I upgraded my membership I would have access to unlimited warm up competition, withdraw winnings, know about other players, easy access to new games, special events and tournaments and reward points.

What stopped me? They expect payment through Paypal, Mastercard or Visa. A ten dollar deposit means you get 250 points and a $20 means that you get 3,000 points. This brings a few questions. Will I need to add more money later? How much is the real cost of online cash games and do I have the time?

The free games are truly free. You don't win money but there isn't the need to make a monetary commitment. Msn.com should be proud of Chicktionary with its emphasis on learning.

I Cannot Believe It's Not Butter

I found the I Cannot Believe It's Not Butter game on the msn.com game section. The Butter game teases that you have a chance to win one million dollars. The game endorses the famous margarine spread that contains Omega 3. While you are waiting for the game to load you can read about the product. The game askes you to choose an avatar which is just the head shot of a girl or a guy in any skin tone. Next you choose a screen name. There are a series of rapid fire trivia questions from the 1950's, 60's, 80's and the present time. The game show host makes funny comments. You have about six seconds per question. This is a sweepstakes game that is free and you can play more than once.

Before you choose to preview anything on Yahoo.com you are prompted to run Active Control X. That is quick and painless. You can preview Lost- Via Domus game for XBox, PS3, and PC. I chose to download the HD version that was 66.5 MB. Windows media player window pops up and the buffering takes a whopping 20 minutes! Well it was a cloudy morning ant that could affect transmission of information by satelite.The Lost- Via Domus trailer was fast paced and delightful but it lasted only one minute. A new character is discovered among Jack, Hurley and Kate. The charcters moves as if they have real weight but they do not look exactly like the actors. While I watched the trailer I was shaken and stirred.

Yahoo.com offers numerous games that you can play like Madame Fate. You can even buy the full version of Madame Fate for $19.99. Yahoo.com give you a preview of Grand Theft Auto. Got five minutes? You can play the five minute daily games like sudoku, crosswords and wordsense.

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