Addictive little online games

It’s the Friday before Christmas weekend. Stop pretending you’re trying to get any work done today. Your boss is either off on vacation already or has her feet up on the desk, waiting for the appropriate hour to sneak off for a “late lunch” and never come back. To help you in your final hours of pre-holiday work, I compiled a list of some addictive online games, easy to play but hard to master. Have hours of fun. Go on, you deserve it.

Line Rider - You know it, you love it. This is the new version, just released.

Winterbells - Jump a bunny from bell to bell.

Finger Frenzy - How fast can you type the alphabet? (My high is 8.54 seconds. (Slow typer.))

Sober Santa - Steer drunk Santa away from the rails.

Falling sand game - Part game, part physics experiment.

Throw Paper! - This would be more fun on the Wii.

Bejeweled - Billions of collective hours of productivity lost.

50 states map challenge - Place the US states on a map. (I got 92% accuracy.)

Cursor Thief - The short little dude wants to steal your cursor.

Mini golf - 18 holes. (Another version.)

Collapse - Kinda like Columns, if you’ve ever played that.

Fly the Copter - A simple one-button game.

Pingu Throw - Wherein a Yeti hits a penguin with a club to see how far it will fly.

Mission in Snowdriftland. Like Super Mario Bros, but with a snowman.

DoubleJeu - Balance a ball while playing Pong.

Chaos Theory - A bit like a chain reaction Missle Command.

Troyis - A chess-like puzzle game.

MotherLoad - I’m telling you, don’t get started on this one. Like crack, it is.

Domino Pressure - Knock down the dominoes to squish the tomato.

Dodge - Dodge the blocks with your mouse.

High scores to share? Other neat online games that people should know about? Taunt my slow typing skills? Leave ‘em in the comments.

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