After the success of my first five web games post, I thought I’d put a second one together with five more free web games that I’ve come across since then. All are pretty simple to top play and yet challenging at the same time. However, they are also addicting. It’s not my fault if you spend hours playing and getting nothing else done.

3d Logic II- Stronghold of Sage - There is quite a bit of a story here, and lots of nice graphics, but the game is very simple. Just connect the colors. Click on any one colored square and then fill in the transparent squares until you connect it with the matching colored square. Sounds easy right? Well it is for the first few levels. After that, it gets tricky!

My wife brought home Super Mario Galaxy we spend 90 minutes playing it last night. I have to say that even though Princess got taken again, it’s a phenomenal game.

Mario is back in all his glory. The worlds are amazing. You are on round levels that you can literally run all the way around. Fall in a hole and you’ll pop out the other side. Bridges are not always straight across, sometimes they curve around to the underside of the level. Mario walks up, down, left, right and all over the place. Some areas you just feel as if you make one wrong step, you’ll fall into space. However, you merely walk onto the side of the object and it’s very cool!

There are tons of ways to waste time on the internet and free web games are quickly becoming my favorite.

I’ve listed out 5 games below. All are free, simple and addicting. There are no complex rules, no user registration, no downloads or anything like that. Just fun!

In no particular order, here are 5 cool web games that are worth checking out.

Life is to short to work all day, so you might as well take a few breaks and relax. Maybe play with a Lite Brite?

You know what a Lite Brite is right? That toy from when we were kids (or maybe just me) and you stick the little plastic pieces though the dark paper, then they get backlit and it just looks so cool. I can be just as entertained today by it as back then which, is why I’m excited to see it online.

In our Wii downtime, I checked out Thrillville for Xbox (also available in Playstation and PSP). Where it may seem similar to Rollercaoaster Tycoon, it’s much different.

Listing off the objectives and game play of both games, one would think they are quite similar. However, Thrillville is more about mini-games and goals than it is about building the biggest and best amusement park. For example, when you hire a park employee, you have to train them via a mini game. The more training, the better they’ll do. You also have to talk to people and make friends. You can ask them what they’d like to see or talk about sports or animals. You even get the ability to flirt with the ladies.

We will get a Nintendo Wii on Thursday! After weeks of searching, I came up empty handed. However, one of my wife’s co-workers stumbled across one at Toys R Us today. Since she had one, she called Christi to see if we still wanted one. She said yes and now have to wait until tomorrow to see the coworker again and actually get it. But it’s guaranteed!

Finding a Nintendo Wii can be a bit troublesome. Here are a few tips that I’ve learned on my quest to find one.

1. Be Patient - The chances that you can run out to BestBuy and get one are slim. So be patient. I’ve been looking since November 19th with no luck yet.
2. Be Early - The lack of supply has raised the demand and stores may only get 20 at a time. Even that number is a bit high. If the store opens at 10, get there at 8:30 or 9. I still see lines today.

We struck out once again when trying to get a Nintendo Wii. We heard Target was getting a shipment today, Sunday, so we got up at 5am and got to Target by 6. Already there were over 30 people in line and some had been there since midnight. At 7 they handed out tickets, however Target only got 15 Wiis in.

My quest to find one continues. I’m not going to support those that buy them just to sell them for profit on eBay. I’m going to continue to look at Target, Walmart, GameStop and everywhere in between. If it takes till mid January, so be it.

I read a brain enhancing blog every day to make me smarter and I have a long ways to go as I failed miserably at a simple counting test today. Good news is my smarty pants wife did too.

Check out this quick and ‘easy’ puzzle: Quick Letter Count Test

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