The great world wide network called the Internet appeared many years ago. First it was used for political and military purposes, but then it began to expand more and more in the United States of America, and then all over the world. It was used in different domains, and with time every country in the world gain access to the internet. Now there are billions of users every day, and they use it for almost any purpose, including to read news, communicate with friends all over the world, to buy and sell, to make money but also to have fun and relax.
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In time, the number of sites with free games to play for fun and prizes has grown exponentially. Most of them give you the opportunity to play directly on their site, but you can also download the games you like, and play them whenever you want, directly from your computer.

The topics of the games are now very diversified, and they can satisfy everyone's needs and wishes. First of all there are the games for children, but with time appeared a new category of games: the games that adults play when they are at work, just to have some fun and relax after a long day of working, or just to annoy their boss :) If you are a fan of sports, you can choose from many types of sport games such as: football, tennis, volley, basketball, soccer, table tennis, baseball, pool, karts, mountain bikes, race cars, ski, surf, cricket, bowling, golf and so many more. If you like adventures you can choose from many kinds of action games, where you can solve mysteries and crimes, or you can shoot bad guys or save princesses from the negative characters. If you like cars you can make races with the computer, or with one of your friends, and you can choose from a big variety of vehicles such as rally cars, formula 1 cars, karts, motor bikes, dirt bikes, trucks, boats and even ski jets. There are also dancing games, where you have to make the characters dance as good as possible or make them sing. To make the fun even bigger, the creators of the games included some very popular characters in the games. For example you can play soccer with David Beckham, or you can make Tony Blair dance or get George Bush in shape, by putting him to jog, to jump, to stretch and to do other crazy things. If you are a fan of music you can choose a music game, where u must sing the correct notes of a song just by pressing your keyboard.

If you are a parent and you worry that your children are spending too many hours playing at the computer, you don't have to worry any more, because now you can find educational games. These kinds of games can increase the vocabulary of the children by learning them new words, or can stimulate their imagination and creativity. In this category you can also find the very popular game called Sudoku.

There are also games made just for children, with funny characters such as monkeys, penguins or Santa Claus. And there are also games dedicated for the girls where they can dress or do make-ups to the characters, such as Barbie, and other teen idols for example Britney Spears of Paris Hilton.

As we mentioned before, many of the games have animal characters, for example penguins, monkeys, chickens, cats, dogs and many more. Of course you can find games with known animal characters from cartoons, such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny, Songoku, Tom and Jerry and others.



There are also games dedicated to some events or holidays. For example Christmas and winter games, where you can play with Santa Claus, reindeers, elves or snow men. You can also find Halloween games, and here you can play with monsters, ghosts , skeletons and other spooky characters.

Of course, if you are not interested in these kind of games, you can still find the classical games such as Tetris, puzzles or the very interesting perspicacity games. These kind of games are usually for adults, and in this category there are also the 18+ games, which are banned for children. But unfortunately these days most of the kids have internet access, and many of them play adult games even if they don't have the appropriate age.

The biggest site in free online games for fun is www.miniclip.com. It has the biggest variety of games for children and adults, and it is available in many international languages such as English, French, Spanish, German, Italian and even Romanian. It has a lot of users every day, probably millions of them. You can play the games directly on the site, but you can also download some of them.



So far we talked about the sites that offer free games that you play just for fun and relaxation. But there are also sites which are paying you to play their games.  An example is www.prizee.com . It is a French site which has developed a lot in the last years. After you sign in, you begin to play. You have many games to choose from, and you can play them only one time every day. There are some interesting characters which appear all over the site and into the games. These are: the rabbit, the frog, the fish and the devil, and they can be really funny and enjoyable to both children and adults. When you play the games, and you win, you gain coins.



After you have enough of these, you can trade them for prizes. You can begin with smaller and cheaper ones such as pens, pencil boxes, alarm clocks and others, which have the site characters drown on them, and the name of the site written. They don't seem like much, but let's not forget that this is a free site, where you don't pay anything. You just play the games, you relax and have fun, and after all of this you still get a small prize. And of course, if you are really lucky, and you win a lot of coins, the site offers some cool and expensive prizes too. Some of them are: movie and games DVD-s, laptops,  notebooks, Play Station games and many more.

Among online tractor selling, I found tractor games on the Internet. I could say I was searching for something else, but I can not find a word resembling to vehicle's name at the time.
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I could not play the Tractor Pulling Game Rev 5.0 by www.pullzone.com and Muller Motorsports, no matter how much I have tried. And they say it is a game in progress... Apparently, this one is a newer version of an older game with the same idea - a tractor pulling a sled. And you, the driver, have to drive it the furthest, while the sled tries to slow you down. As the creator says, the game is a crude representation of  the sport of tractor pulling. Well, hopefully we shall find another game of this type! One that works...

Among other games made by Muller Motorsports, I found the Semi Truck Pulling Game. It is similar to the previous one, except this one has Instructions. I also found out that the game is divided into 12 normal levels and a bonus one, but it is very hard to reach that one, because if you want to continue the bonus round, you have to have a full pull in every level.

Another Tractor Flash online game is Tractor Tippin. It is made by Disney/ Pixar and has 1.82 MB so, it takes more time to load. The vehicles are taken from the "Cars" animation and you have to help Lightning McQueen give tips to as many tractors as it can and jump over hay bales, in order to avoid Frank the "Bull" Combine Harvester. At the end of the game, there is a sequel from the movie. Quiet fun.

Most of the free tractor online games are designed to be played with only the keyboard. "Lovely Tractor" is not an exception. Using the up, down, left, right and sometimes space, you must control the digger around the track and to try to avoid objects and/ or cones. The objective of an online tractor game - and this one is not different - is to finish the mission in a short time. The graphics are better than Muller Motosports' games and it runs faster than Tractor Tippin. Third time is really a charm!

Kamaz Delivery is similar to these free games. You are on a competition called Russian Bear Driver in the Annual Tundras Racing. You must deliver as many crates as you can to the finish line with the cargo. There are bonuses, as well, like "Stay in Air" or "Maximum Speed". Do not forget to configure your truck adjusting different parameters of the vehicle. The game is set in a cold area, most certainly Russia. You must drive the truck on ice and the cargo is full of boxes. You can roll the truck over, if the speed is too high and you just started going down a valley. So beware!

Farmer McJoy has a rather funny story designed by MoFunZone.com. You must help him avenge his slain cows. In the plot, in "a mighty fine day", the farmer goes to milk the cows, whom he reckons they are alive, although he would enjoy "layin' back and stompin' some varmints". But "Holy Daytona", the cows' heads have been popped off! It seems like the farmer was not a good boy, this being a punishment from the Capfields for the chicken choking. He goes after the Capfields with one thought:  either it ads up to a right  or he runs out of scatter gun shells... Or he sobers up... He swears on dear old Bessie's head.

The game opens in a different window, unlike the previous ones. It has multiple levels with an illustrated funny story, cool bosses, original game-play, great weapons, real in- house banjo tracks. There is also smart enemy with artificial intelligence, tuned engines, etc.

The instructions are controls are explained in the game. To drive the tractor, you just have to go near it and press jump. With the arrow keys, the farmer can scramble, "A" key is used for "rastle", the "S" key is for leaping and he can shoot with the aid of the "D" key. If you want to reload the gun, just use "R" from the keyboard. Also, you can "switch wepin's" with spacebar. There are nine weapons, a new one for each level. Finally, you can pick enemy's weapons as well. In the possibility that the game is too slow, you can always press  Q to increase performance and to toggle the quality.

It is five o'clock in the morning. Only the darkness lies awake with me. The lights are turned down low all over the house and my cat is sleeping. I am kept awake by important business. What now?... What will it happen?... Will I fall asleep on the chair? Will I, maybe, hear something in the cracking of the dawn? Will I hear the howl of a wolf?... Of course not, I live in a flat far away from the Zoo. Then? The night placed a hunger for mystery in me. So I shall find some enigma or murder games.
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Accompanied by a track that seems taken from "Pulp Fiction", "A Case of the Crabs" is a mystery game with a cabalist good design: it is made to look like a comic book rather than a short funny game.

The "Nick Bounty Mini Mystery" has everything placed in order and more: it has screenshots from the game, hints on how to use the hint page and how to get through some parts of the game, a forum, extra bonuses: Interview with Jason Ellis: The voice of Nick Bounty, Interview with Mark Darin: Director, Producer and head of Pinhead Games and A brief history of Nick Bounty. It seems that Nick appeared in 1986 in a sketch created for a high school drama. The character became popular when Otter Productions transposed it into video. The company created a trilogy of movies. Ten years after the original movie, Nick Bounty made his way to a new medium: the video games. "Nick Bounty: The Tale of the Vengeful Curtain Rod" is also a point & click adventure game, made for the Amiga computer system.

The game is pretty fantastic, I would say. For a flash game, it has everything a mystery game should have. You can move, look at the objects, get them, use them combined, talk to people and even shoot. Plus you have great lines. It has a classic point & click interface, with black and white graphics. The mystery murder game is fully compatible with Mac, PC or Linux and you do not need to download it to play. One more thing: it is vocalized by talented actors.

After a, introduction, the game begins when a local seafood salesman who brings a package to Nick Bounty. He has the ability to solve the most intricate cases, but he has to work for a paying client. Nick always searches to solve crime cases, even if they do not exist. Like, when Arthur Griffen, comes to bring him the package, Nick thinks that the package has something to do with a murder. He than figures out it is just a crab package. But still... Arthur comes in, talks to Bounty and for no reason, he drops dead, releasing the crab the box contained. Checking things out, the detective sees Arthur was stabbed and he takes the knife, plus the crab and other things that are not nailed down.

After finding a clue mentioned on the box - its provenience, Nick goes to the docks, where Bill is polishing the barnacles. The latter tells Bounty to go away. In Hints, there is the question "Why will not Bill talk to me?". The answers are: Hint 1: "It could be your breath", Hint 2: "But that is not it. He is just busy. You will have to get his attention somehow". Hint 3: "Maybe putting something in his bucket would get his attention". Hint 4: "Something like a crab". Hint 5: "Use crab with the bucket". So you put the crab in Bill's bucket. He starts talking to you and if you ask him about the crabs, he complains they are very itchy, but you can get a special shampoo to get rid of them. He also says he used to see Arthur Griffen often at the docks, with his boat, but since he started hanging with "the guys in the fancy suits", he stopped coming. A clue! With a threatening bored tone, Nick says he has heard enough and takes his crab back.

When the city map is revealed, you can save the game and  later pick it up where you left off by clicking the "Load" button.

Murder mystery games are games wherein there is a crime recently done and you are the one who must investigate it, in order to find the killer and to solve the mystery. At the West Virginia Flash festival, the "A Case of the Crabs" took the "Director's Choice" award recently, for being an outstanding entrant. It also got nominated "Best Independent Adventure" by The Crow's Nest, "Best Indi Adventure" in The Inventory Magazine's Reader's Choice 2004 and The Corw's Nest awarded them with Best Indi Adventure Music.