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A Fun Zone
• www.afunzone.com
Hundreds of puzzles to play online for free. Includes crosswords, sudoku, word search, brainteasers, word crunch and many more.
43 Plc Quizzes 
• www.whowantstowina.com
Quizzes played against the clock to win prizes. They are all free-to-enter quiz web sites with multiple prizes. It's a fun, fast and interactive experience in an exciting testing environment, where you can pit your wits against the clock. Score 1,000 points and gain entry into many different exciting prize draws. The best entrants will also win cash prizes for topping the leaderboard. You can play as many times as you wish to try and improve your position on the leaderboard. You can interact with the site by adding your own general knowledge, footballing, music, film, sport or formula one questions. If accepted you are then credited with being the 'questionmaster' each time their question appears on the site.
FunTrivia
• www.funtrivia.com
Loads of quizzes on all topics imaginable for all ages plus an active community if you like to chat. You can even create you own fun trivia tournament. There are also game shows, crosswords and an online crossword maker. Great fun. Free to join.
Offerx Quiz
• www.offerx.co.uk
Headers: Online Quizzes
Free to join and free to play - but everyday the winning score gets a prize! Can't be bad. Quizzes include football, general knowledge, music, business and finance, television, food and drink, pubs, and cricket. Prizes are awarded everyday at 7pm.
Wizard Trivia
• www.wizardtrivia.com 
You can join free to try out the daily quiz and the multiplayer games. The multiplayer game lets you play online against other members or a computer robot. Subcribe and you get access to other features including the Trivia University.
Useless Knowledge 
• www.uselessknowledge.com
It's got Trivia, Quotes, Quizzes, History, Useless Facts and More! If you have ever wondered ... What animal has the largest eyes? Why do the stars twinkle? And why are Blue Jeans sewn with Orange thread? Then this is the site for you. It has also got a stack of those infuriating matchstick puzzles. You know the type - move one match to create a square or something.
Cryptogram
• http://teppo.tv/cryptogram/index.php
Great fun. These cryptograms are simple substitution ones. There is a help screen if you haven't done any of these before.
Tiki the Penguin
• http://tiki.oneworld.net
Website especially for younger children. Great interactive quizzes, stories and articles, guides and fun stuff. And hosted by a penguin!! There is also a queston and answer page where children can write in and ask questions.
Word Games
Wordsplay
www.wordsplay.net
This used to be called weboggle. Oy's timed boggle online against other players. Compulsive for anyone who likes word games.
Daily Sudoku
www.dailysudoku.co.uk
Daily puzzle. Playable online or print off a copy to complete with your morning coffee.
Puzzle Choice
www.puzzlechoice.com
Free to play interactive and printable. There are crosswords, word search, number puzzles, logic puzzles, quizzes and word play. There is also a section for children's games.
WebSudoku
www.websudoku.com
Play sudoku online for free. Easy to pretty fiendish!
Sudoku Solver
www.sudokusolver.co.uk
Really stuck? Enter what you have in the grid and get the solution with detailed steps to see how it was done.
Puzzlers Cave
www.puzzlerscave.com
Lots of crossword puzzles to play online or to print. You don't have to register but if you do your (free) membership allows you to save crosswords whilst you are playing. You can also upload crosswords for other puzzlers to play. Plus there is the Puzzlers Cave Crossword Compiler - basic edition is free or you might choose to purchase the pro version.
Daily Crossword Puzzles
www.bestcrosswords.com
Free online crossword puzzles to play in your browser and there are also printable crosswords to do offline. If you register you can submit your scores.
Vivi Online Crosswords
www.vivi.addr.com
Online crosswords from easy to tough. Also has themed crossword puzzles.
AMO's Online Crossword Puzzle Dicitonary
www.amo.qc.ca/cgi-bin/pub/ODico/dico.out
Having trouble with crossword clues? Enter you search string and AMO will give you a list of words that fit the bill. OK, so it's cheating! (You can even find any word that matches a specific pattern of letters.)
One Across
www.oneacross.com
Crossword clue search - enter a crossword puzzle clue and either the length of the answer or an answer pattern. Plus there are cryptograms (you can make or solve them), an anagram sover and a dictionary. Nice site.
Instant Online Crossword Puzzle Maker
www.varietygames.com/CW
You can create crossword puzzles for free and you can view your puzzle and the solution in your browser. Note, they will urge you to buy the pro version of the software, which you may well want to do.
Crossword Clue Solver
www.crosswordsolver.org
If you are really stuck on a crossword, enter the letters you know, specify the word length and the Crossword Solver will give you a list all the possible words.
Online Boggle/Wordracer Solver
www.circlemud.org/~jelson/software/netboggle.pl
Basic but fast and it does the job. This one uses the UNIX dictionary.
Jumbalaya
http://jumbalaya.netfrolic.com
This game is really online boggle by another name. You can play either with other people or with the computer. To play in multiplayer games there is a $5 per year subscription fee to pay. However, you can try out a demo game before deciding if its for you plus there is a chat facility and a mailing list.
Online Boggle
www.visionpcservices.com/impax/boggle/login.asp
To play you have to register.
Babble
www.playbabble.com/700
Boggle game with an active online chat facility. There is one game each day. You have to pay to get the full features of this community.
