New Grounds that is famous among flash artists as “Home” is considered as the king of flash games. Here, you cannot only enjoy its renowned flash contents like Fancy Pants Adventure, Pico’s School, and Alien Hominid, but can also give rating to your favorite game from 0-5. Another beautiful addition in New Grounds is “Castle Crashers” that is developed by Tom Fulp, the owner of this site. Here, you can also avail another flawless opportunity in the form of “Medal System” that permits you to gather the points from many other web-based flash games.

2: Armor Games

Another leading name in online flash games is “Armor Games”. Being having high standard format, flash artists feel honor to work for this site and another beautiful attraction for them in the form of www.armorgames.com is that, it is highly paying site for the developers. Some world-famous flash games that you can play at this site are Fancy Pants Sonny, Adventure and The Last Stand. One of the most famous products of “Armor Games” that has received the views more than 12 million is Warfare 1944.

3: Miniclip

Miniclip is one more very popular website in terms of providing facility of playing free online flash games. The reason behind fame of this site is that, most of its flash content is made internally. Some famous flash products of this site are Runescape and Club Penguin. Moreover, all the Mini Clip games have licensed feature.

4: Addicting Games

Addicting Games is a flash-based gaming website that is different from other sites in an exclusive manner. It not only searches for best games around the web, but also showcases them at its forum. In other words, this website provides an opportunity to common gamers about finding something new and hot in the world of flash games.

So what are you waiting for? If you are passionate about playing free flash games and want to visit the best websites for free flash games then do check the aforementioned sites and enjoy playing flash games now!

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As Gamification says, it is actually a Wiki that was born so that everyone from game designers to technologists could contribute ideas about how to Gamify Education. Gamification had a wiki page on Wikipedia that was removed later because it seemed like an advertisement. Gamification wants things to be open sourced and wants to push the concept of gamifying to a further level up.

You can login to Gamification wiki with your Facebook account or you can also create a new account on Gamification. You can then start contributing to Gamification.

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To begin with playing Chess using Zoho Docs, you first need to assemble the chessboard and the chess pieces for the game. Login to your Zoho account and create a new document. You don’t need to sign up as you can directly login with your Gmail, Yahoo, Facebook or Google Apps.

Now go to Insert>Table. Create an eight row by eight column (8×8) table. You’ll then need to make the table square, for the squared checkered board as in the Chess Game. To do this, right click on the table and from “Table Operations”, select “Table Properties”. From the “Size and Position” tab, specify the width and height of the table; 500 pixels x 500 pixels would be good. From the dropdown for “Text Align”, choose “Center” and next choose “Middle” for “Vertical Align”. This will give you a 64 cell square shaped table.

The next task in creating the chessboard is to fill the table with alternate black and white cells. As you cannot apply color to multiple cells at one go in Zoho, you’ll need to change the color to black for every alternate cell. You can change the color from “Table Operations”>”Cell Properties”. At the same time, adjust set the width and height of the cell in percent under the “Size and Position” tab. 12% would be fine. Also set “Text Align” to Center and “Vertical Align” to Middle. Finally click OK.

You’ll now need the chess pieces for playing. You can do a search for it on the internet or use this set of icons. Now insert these icons manually into the respective cells by using the Insert Image option. It would be better if you added the images directly from your computer rather than from some URL. Once you’re done adding the chess piece images, save your file. You can see the chessboard that I’ve created here. As Zoho doesn’t let you add it directly to your account, you’ll have to go through the process of creating the Chessboard on your own. You cannot use it by downloading and then uploading it as on doing so, the document collaborative editing features wouldn’t be available. But you can use it in your document by copy pasting and it will appear just as in this document. Just open this document in Zoho and copy all using Ctrl+A and paste it in your new Zoho Document.

Now, from the share menu at the top click on Share. Type the email address of your friend whom you want to play chess with using Zoho Docs. Your friend must login to Zoho to be able to play with you. As said earlier, signing up isn’t necessary and one can use Zoho docs directly with his Gmail ID. Or if your friend has already signed up with Zoho, you can enter his Zoho username directly. Now set the File Permissions to Read/Write. You can also edit the Invitation Mail and edit it to make it look like an invitation for playing chess. Finally click “Share”. Your friend should get an email with the invitation and a link to the document. Now, your friend can also sign in to Zoho and edit the document.

Both of you can edit the document simultaneously; thanks to the collaborative editing feature in Zoho. Once your friend opens the document both of you can start making changes to it which are visible in real time. To kick off with the game, make your first move by dragging the pawn to a desired box and “Save” or use the shortcut Ctrl+S. This move will also appear on your friend’s side. He can now make his move and press Ctrl+S again and you’ll be able to see his move. If you need to say something to your friend regarding the game or give him a checkmate, you can chat with him via the Collaborator’s chat box right inside the document editor.

So, using Zoho Docs, you can create and play chess online with your friend.

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On the top left hand side of Scrabb.ly crossword board, you’ll see a map of the whole board and your position in it. It is helpful for knowing your position on the board. Scrabb.ly can be fun if you love crossword games.

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BrainNook helps children develop their skills through virtual world exploration, games, puzzles and interaction with other children of similar age group. Children can learn the basic things while playing and exploring. BrainNook boasts of being the first virtual world that helps elementary school kids learn Math and English Grammar in a multiplayer environment. BrainNook can spare you answering your kid’s questions on Math or other subjects as BrainNook has about 100 games regarding basic Math and English grammar of varying difficulty levels. The gaming environment is safe for your kids as it complies with the California State Board of Education content standards for Grades 1-5. The games can be played in single or multiplayer modes.

Before using BrainNook, you (or your kid) need to sign up and choose a character. You can customize your character to some extent and give it a name which should be unique. Your BrainNook character then travels to places to play games on the move. There are over 15 places or say virtual worlds in BrainNook for kids to explore that are based on various parts of the Earth like the Sahara, The Arctic, The Amazon Jungle and more. For puzzle games, kids are required to collect different items from these places.

The activities of the kids can also be monitored by the parents. The Parental Control Panel helps parents track the progress of their kids on BrainNook. They can see the snapshots of games their children have played, topics and places explored by their children etc. The Parental Control panel on BrainNook can help the parents analyse the interests and capabliities of their children. Very soon, BrainNook will be adding email-reporting to parents feature.

BrainNook also has a Help section for the kids where they learn about the basics of playing on BrainNook like choosing their character, skill meteres, moving characters, Leveling up, Chat, Earning Stars etc. Many places are locked at the beginning. They get unlocked as a user progresses through the levels. The interface is colorful and cartoonish that the children will love for sure. The hints are given in a very simple language and any kid can easily understand the game play.

For a limited time, BrainNook is giving a premium account for six months for all users. The parental control feature and the meticulously crafted games make it a good choice for E-Learning. BrainNook can be a great interactive platform for your kids to learn in a fun and educational gaming environment.

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