There are all sorts of methods of having fun and relaxing at the computer, and one of them is to play some free online flash games. As the name says these are games made with the flash technology and they are found on the internet for free. They can have all sorts of topics and characters, and some games are even inspired by the real life. So you will find many games with famous people as characters such as: politicians (George W. Bush, Barrack Obama, Tony Blair etc), with actors (Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Will Smith etc) and also with singers such as: Britney Spears, Madonna, Hannah Montana and so on.


Some games are really fun and some can even be really silly or stupid, but this doesn’t mean that they all are the same.  Actually there are many games that can be very useful to young kids…and not only.

There are also many sites with free online flash games and one of the most famous of all is miniclip.com. Here on this site you will find hundreds of cool games, with all sorts of topics, and the great thing about them is that they have a really good graphic, especially for simple flash games. For today we’ll discuss about some education games from this site, and we’ll begin with the one called “Fowl words”. Here in this game you will have to make words out of the letters that are given to you be the hens. Before each round you will be given the maximum number of words that can be formed with those letters, and you can place your bets. You can bet on the number of words you think you will make, and you will have three choices.

So if you choose a number of words, and after that round you will make at least that number of words, you will receive a bonus that can consist of 1000, 3000 or 10.000 points. As you begin the game you will have in front of you 7 chickens. And each one will have a letter written on it. There are 2 ways of playing this game: from the keyboard or using the mouse. If you decide to use the keyboard, then you will have to click on the letters you see on the screen, and arrange them in such a way to make words. The words will need to have at least three letters. So type down the letter you spotted, and the press the space bar or the enter key. Whenever you click on one of the letters, the chicken that has that letter will make an egg, and the egg will go below and form the word.

If you change your mind about a word, then you can use the backspace key to delete a letter. When deleting a letter, the egg will get back to the chicken where it came from, and it will make that chicken to bounce and to make a funny noise. As we said, you can also play with the mouse. You can click on each chicken to make it drop the letter you want, and then click on the “Enter” button from the screen to send that word. To delete a letter simply click on the egg, and it will get back to its origin. You can also use the “Clear” button, and this will delete all the letters you wrote so far. Whenever you find a word, it will be written above the chickens, so you can see how many words you have found so far. All the eggs that you see above the chickens are the total possibilities of words that can be formed with the letters you have in that round. The number of eggs you see represents the number of letters that word has. For example if you see 10 packs of 3 eggs each one, it means that there are 10 possible words with 3 letters. There are also words of 4 letters, 5 letters and so on…but there isn’t any word with less then 3 letters.

The game is quite really fun to play, and it is also educative for children, and this way they can learn new words. If they use the keyboard, they can also learn how to type. There are many possibilities of making words in each round, but it is not necessary to find all of them. It will be enough to find out just a few words in order to move on to the next round. For example in the first round 8 words will be just enough. You will also need to hurry up a little, because there is a limited amount of time. You can also use the “Scrambler” button to rearrange the letters from the chickens. There will be the same letters, only that they are arranged in a different way. This can be really useful, and it can help you to find out new words.

So here was just an example of a really fun educational game from miniclip.com, but of course there are many more others at the “Education games” category. So in case you know some other similar games that are really fun to play and useful to children (or to any person) tell us more about them. Have a great day!