If you're searching for free puzzle games online, you are invited to enter Yahoo.com, because this is a site where you can find free games, downloadable games and Web games. Some of the web games that can be played on Yahoo.com require you to register on the site of their developer; but others such as Around The World In 80 Days do not require you to register.
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Nevertheless you should have an Yahoo account. This does not cost a thing; plus, it is more appropriate to have an account, because this site will know what games to recommend you.

I have mentioned a game, Around The World In 80 Days, this is a game included in the Puzzle category of games on Yahoo.com. This game requires you to travel back in time into 19th century; you will have to match some items that will help you to move forward. If you play the game today and you enter the game two weeks after this day, the game will recognize you, if you use the same computer, in other words the same IP. I entered this game a long time ago and now when I'm writing this review for it, I can see that I have passed already five levels of the game. Which is good for me, considering that I'm not such a games passionate. When you play this game, you will see from time to time that there is a Download button available. This means that it can download this game from Yahoo at any time. The advantage would be that you will not have to be connected to the Internet in order to play the game. If you get the offline version of the game, you will not be able to show off with your scores in front of your friends; so you can consider this as a shortcoming.

You can compare this game to Bejeweled. Like in this game as well, you can benefit of tips and a certain advantages, such as a hammer with which you will be able to smash some of the gems or items present in the grid. I like very much the interface or the graphics of the game; I don't know if this is because I do have a very good graphics processor, but I cannot help of mentioning the great images and colors provided by this game. If you really want to relax and earn some points in an easy way, I recommend you Around The World In 80 Days. You will be the main character, Phileas Fogg.

I believe that the most representative game that requires you to match three items that are the same is Bejeweled. This game is available on many sites that offer this kind of services; you can play this game for free and you can download it.
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I for example, I remember that I have downloaded this game, or at least its free version trial, from Yahoo.com. This game is now so popular, that it has become a 10 million users game on Facebook as well.

Basically what do you have to do? You have a grid with a certain number of squares. In the squares, you will see gems. They have different shapes and different colors; all the user has to do is to match three identical gems. If the user manages to match four or even five gems, which look the same, meaning that they have the same color and shape, the user will receive more points and at the same time in the location where you will connect those four or five items, you will obtain a little bomb. That bomb will explode if you will find another to matching gems. If you will find some other three items, which are the same and which obviously are not connected one to another because if they were they would have exploded by now, you will obtain another little bomb which will explode along with this first one. The bomb that is obtained when he managed to form a line of four identical gems will generate a lower power than the one created out of five identical gems. In fact this one, generated by five gems, will allow you to explode all the items on the grid that have the same color as the gem, which was created by you, the user, when obtaining it.

It is enough to write Bejeweled on Google and you will find plenty of sites that allow you to play this game. I recommend you to play the game on Facebook, because in this way your friends will be able to see your scores. And you will compete with them. It is hard to move from one level to another; you must obtain thousands of points, but it is not impossible. I usually play the game 5 min. a day and now I am at the fourth level. If you're persistent and good at what you do, this software will provide many benefits. One of the advantages offered by this game is the fact that you can use some of the points that you earn in order to get some auxiliary help.

The downloadable games are usually paid games, and because I know that you are interested more in free games (who isn’t?), I will recommend you something else. Enter the Yahoo Games site and see what are the available puzzle games there. You will see that some of the games that are available there, can be played only online. The rest of the games can be downloaded.
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There is a small category of games, which can be played online, but which can be at the same time downloaded. These games are most likely paid games, and you can show your friends the scores that you have made when you played the game offline. When you play online, you can make mistakes, this is why if you play the game offline, you can become better and in this way, show your friends that you are indeed very good at the game.

But let’s get back to what I have started to say about the free downloadable games. You can get downloadable games for free in this manner: if you download a game from Yahoo for 60 minutes. Some of the games that are there do not even last 60 minutes, but 5 minutes, and others do not have a free trial available. You will discover that some of these free games offer you the possibility of downloading the full version of the game, as long as you agree to see the commercials or the ads that appear from time to time during the game. This can be frustrating for a person who hates the ads, but not that frustrating if you think that you got a very good game, for free. Another wat to download games on your mobile devices would be to own an iPhone or an iPad or an Android device. These ones offer more possibilities for their users to see what a free app actually means. In most of the cases, this involves also to see some ads, but at the same time, the free app may contain only 3 levels, out of 30, the maximum level number had by the application. Or you can upgrade certain tools, only if you buy those tools with real money. They are the so-called in-app purchases, which are available for all those who have a credit or a debit card.

I will not start to mention the available Yahoo Games or the apps that can be included in the Puzzle category, because they are thousands of them. Only if you think at App Store or Android Market, you will realise that this is an impossible mission. My advice is to write on Google or enter the sites I just named (the App Store site and the Android Market) to get the latest releases in terms of puzzle games.