Mullinix, Tammy

LS521 SP02

Games Elective

Games Online

I visited all three of the gaming sites listed and experienced a little of each in an attempt to find something to my tastes.

I was not impressed with the last two sites listed as they really didn't have much that appealed to me. I am not a big fan of board games. However, I was impressed with the variety of board games that were available at MPOGD.Com or

http://www.mpogd.com/games/board/index.asp.  I had not realized that there were that many board games available on the web. The vogclub site was a little aggravating that it took so long to download the necessary software in order to even get started playing games. I had to make four attempts to download the software since it took so long and I was having login problems.

The site that I loved was the yahoo game site. There was a wonderful variety of types of games as well as different games within each category. I tried a couple of types of games from puzzles to chance. Elvis=Lives was a fun puzzle game where I had to unscramble words that were connected. The last three words in a series were related in some way to the beginning word. However, I chose to become an expert at bingo. I have played bingo on other websites that specialize in bingo and found it interesting as well as fun to play bingo in a different 'virtual hall'. Although, other bingo sites have different topics or themes you could play under, yahoo bingo was kind of boring, yet less distracting without pictures moving around in the background or paintball or flower numbers.

There were several different types of games from fast to slow. Usually the caller goes at the same speed for every type of game on a site. I found it nice to also be able to select how many cards I wanted to play. Other bingo sites give you three cards with no option for more or less.  I did find that the lightening bingo and the 6 and 8 card bingo went at a good speed for those amounts of cards, but the 3 card game crawled on endlessly so I gave up on it.  

There was also wide variety of game patterns.  The site didn't just use traditional straight line/four corners bingo. There were also some more obscure patterns above and beyond the 'T' , 'X' and '7'.  On the down side of this, I also noticed that the caller called numbers that were not necessary to certain patterns, which was annoying.  For example, in the 'H' pattern, there are no valid numbers in the 'N' column which count towards forming the letter 'H'.  In that case, I had to wait for the next number to come up that actually counted for the game which made that game crawl.

All this gaming inspired me to look for other game sites for other games I would enjoy.  In this search, I came across the Boxerjam.com site.  The games on this site are not only fun, but can be educational ;)  .  For instance, in the game 'Strike-A-Match, I found that you really have to know you stuff in order make the correct matches with word associations.

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