Miniclips is a games site that claims to be the largest free online games site. With at least 279 games in the Miniclips kids games category alone, I believe it. DD and I dove in for a try. First we tried Narnian Prince Caspian. Six-year old DD said it was challenging… a bit of an understatement, but she liked it. We went on to a Jet Ski game, which I have to say, made me seasick. Then we tried Sushi Go Round, and we found it a bit fast and overwhelming. I just about despaired of finding anything age-appropriate for DD when we stumbled upon Bloxorz. The object of this puzzle game is to move a block around a board to get it into its goal hole. I like the way the block made a satisfying chink sound as we moved it around the board. I was surprised at DD’s continuing interest in the game,
because it seemed a little difficult for her and she requested my constant help, but I got rather addicted, too, playing it after she went to bed.
I found an interesting article about the Miniclips website and its founder Robert Small in this newspaper article at the Business Times Online.
It said that Miniclips games are for the most part “simple, addictive and, in most cases, free to play.” I thought the part about how Miniclips shares its games with 300,000 other websites fascinating, too.
The Miniclips website contains advertising to other sites. From what I could tell, the games were in a flash format that could be played online with no downloads required.
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