If you are bored and you are looking for a fun activity to occupy your time, then you can choose to play a free online flash game on the internet. These games are absolutely free and you won’t even need to install anything because you can play them directly from the internet browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera or others).

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These  games are usually very funny and addictive, and there will be a game for everyone. If you like sports then you can play one of the many sport games, if you like adventures then you can play a fighting or an adventure game, if you like cars then you can play  a racing game and so on. But not all the games are funny or silly, there are also some games that are more serious and they require some concentration and intelligence. And there are even some educational games from where the kids can learn all sort of things (learn the alphabet, learn math, learn how to count and so on).

So today we are going to discuss about some puzzle and math online games. First let’s talk about a puzzle game. A game of this kind is usually one that requires just a few clicks on the screen, that will trigger all sort of actions that will lead from one to another, and this way you will be able to solve mysteries or make your way through the game. One game of this kind is the one called “Abuba the alien”. Here you must click on objects from the environment to trigger different actions, so that you can help the cute little alien called Abuba. If you are not sure what to do next you can use the “Need a hint” button. But we suggest to not look at all the hints, and try to discover the  actions yourself because it is much more fun this way.

And now let’s discuss about a fun math game, and we’ll take the Coolmath’s Crazy taxi M 12 game. This is a fun game that combines driving and math, and that will be very useful for the kids because they will learn some math while driving at the same time. Your goal will be to bump into some of the cars, while avoiding others. Each car will have a number written on it.

And before each level you will find out in which of the cars you have to bump in. For example you will have to hit only the cars that have numbers that are multiples of 2 or 7 or 10 and so on. If you will be asked to hit into the multiples of 7, then you will have to bump the cars with these numbers: 7, 14, 21, 28 and so on.



In case there are more cars that are matching the description in front of you, try to hit into all of them, to get even more points. If you bump into a wrong car, you won’t be able to go any further and you will have to move away from that car. And when you do this you will lose a lot of time, so try to hit only into the correct cars. There will also be other obstacles in your way, so jump over them using the space bar. And use the arrow keys to steer your vehicle. Good luck!

The intelligent quotient is used for assessing intelligence and the term "IQ" was proposed by William Stern in 1912. This term is in common use, but it is just a projection of the measured ran on the Gaussian bell curve. This Gaussian curve has 100 as average with a 15 units deviation. Different tests have various deviations, but this test is the most effective and most well known. IQ tests are associated with mortality, with parents' social status and very important, with parents' IQ. The inheritance of this quotient has been studied for almost a century, and this inheritance mechanism is still in discussion between researchers. IQ tests are used as predictors for achievements in education, in sociology for studying the distributions of people with certain IQs and in studying the relationship between this quotient and other personal variables. Since the early 20th century, the IQ scores, in average, have been rising and this happened in the lower half of the range.
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This is a matter of interest for many people, and it is quite interesting for them too see what is their IQ, and compare it with the average or with friends', family or colleagues' quotients. There are a lot of IQ tests versions, and they measure the intelligence in different aspects: logical reasoning, geometrical vision and other sectors of brain activity. It has been researched if the brain size has a direct link with IQ's value and the results were that only 6% of the gray matter tisue has an influence on this score. There has been proven that isolation and certain environmental elements influence the IQ, and it seems to be developed in the childhood.

A lot of people like to test their intelligence, and see which is their IQ, and there are plenty of online resources for this. Very interesting are the IQ games, which help you determine this value in a funny manner. The test has changed its face, and now there are many different versions from the initial one: latest versions are funnier and they don't have anymore that serious look, which made people feel like some experiments in a lab.

There is a link between the IQ score and the age, and also between the IQ and gender, and this thing is often interpreted as discrimination, but the facts are real, and it is proven that the IQ can grow with the age, and that there are slight differences between women and men scores.



A lot of websites offer you the possibility to check your IQ score in a funny way, and funny games are the most pleasant combination between science and entertainment. For example on puzz.com you can find the classic IQ tests, a 4 minute IQ test, which will take only 4 minutes to determine your score, there are also some teasers, in which you submit answers to some given questions and then you can compare your answers to other people's answers, and see where you situate compared to the average and a lot of Sudoku and crossword puzzles, which help you develop your logic and math skills. This site has some sections which modify weekly, so you can go and check every week the new things, and test your intelligence with new and entertaining games.



IQ is one of the scores which characterize a person, there is also the emotional intelligence, which is a newer concept than the IQ score, and it measures the type of reactions someone has in various situations, and how someone faces hard situations and how well can he/she control his/her feelings and emotions in a lot of situations. Emotional intelligence is an study subject for a lot of researchers, which are trying to define some patterns in human behavior according to this score.

The days of the abacus have passed and pencil and worksheets were on a good trend in the last decades, but now, with the availability of the Internet and computers, there are more pleasant ways to learn and exercise math: online games. There are plenty of free games for children or students who want to learn math in a pleasant manner. In this article I gathered few funny math games I found online, and I think you will like them too.
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"Arcade"mic Skill Builders is a site which offers a lot of educational math games. They offer plenty of flash games, with high quality, which can be played also on the Wii. If you have a good Internet connection, you can connect your Wii to the website and you can play the games on your big TV display. Many flash games can be played in multiplayer mode, and they are based on the four basic mathematical operations: addition, substraction, multiplication and division. There are games for "advanced" players also, which include fractions are ratio. The huge variety of math games on "Arcade"mic Skill Builders website is great, and you can try games like Jet Ski, Alien Addition or Grand Prix for fun, or let your children play them, because their educational value is unlimited.

Coolmath-games.com is also a huge resource of online math games, and it covers a wide range of mathematical games. You can find there java&flash games, and HTML based games also. They are all free, and they offer a lot of games, for all ages, and with various difficulty level. For example, there is a game which offers you the opportunity to be an entrepreneur and to run you own coffee shop and obtain profit and manage it. This game is named Coffee Shop and it is similar to Lemonade Stand game, and both can be found on Cool Math games website.

Another cool math games website is Sheppard Software, and this site brings out a lot of flash games, which are very funny, and I am sure that anyone can find a game to fit his/her preferences. Just to name few games on this site, I would like to mention: Early Math, Fractions, Dollars&Cents, Place Values or Basic&Mixed Operations.