Top 5 Online Games for Teens

Teens are often found glued to their computers, whiling away their time on Facebook or Instagram. How about engaging them with fun online games instead? While some of the older, classic online games are still popular, many new ones have mushroomed, giving kids of all ages plenty of variety to choose from.

Here are a few that your teens are sure to love!

Photo by: Tomasland

 Just Words

Just Words is a take on the classic game of Scrabble. Players will have to form the best words with the tiles denoting a single letter with a point value. Score the double letters and triple words by placing your word on the high-score slots. The game can be played against the computer, with a friend, or even by oneself. 

Letter Garden

Set against the backdrop display of a garden, Letter Garden is an online game that’s any teenage word wizard’s dream come true! The goal of the game is to clear the objective that’s shared at the beginning of each level, per board, within the time limit. Words can be made in any direction by dragging the arrow across the tiles. If you're a fan of timed word puzzles, this one's for you!

Backgammon

Does this online game need any introduction? The traditional board game is available online both with the classic board as well as a themed board like winter, Halloween, Christmas, etc.The game can be played against a computer or another person as public or private games. Play and find out how many gammons you gather before the game is over!

Spades

Since the time Windows games were the only way to beat time, Spades has been the go-to game! Teens will need a partner to play Spades on their computers. The goal of this online card game is for each team to win the minimum number of tricks they bid on before play begins. The trump is the titular spade for the players to clinch a win!

Bejeweled 2

If you’ve been a fan of Bejeweled, now there’s Bejeweled 2 for you. In the ‘classic mode’, the rules you've always played by apply.  In the other ‘action mode’, you must fill the slots continuously as they are always running down. A good score unlocks the other game-play modes which are just as brilliant!

How many of these online games have you played? Try your luck with all and unlock a new experience of gaming!

Top 5 educational games and apps for kids

Photo by – babbagecabbage

Educational games have captured the Windows, Android, and Apple platforms with their versatility and educational content. We have compiled our favorite educational games and apps for teens that we think are currently the best!

 

myHomework

Available on iOS, Windows, and Android platforms, myHomework helps kids to organize their homework and other related work by giving them space to record homework assignments and projects, keep track of responsibilities and schedule extracurricular activities. The educational app can be accessed from any remote location making sure that the teen’s assignments and projects are always available, even during group studies. The date reminder tool in the educational app helps kids to keep track of their assignment deadlines.

Spore Origins

This great educational game is unfortunately not available on Android, Windows and iOS being its chosen platforms. The biology game requires players to survive as a multi-cellular organism in a tide pool in an hour long play. The educational game is divided into 18 separate functions with the player eating smaller organisms and avoiding being eaten by bigger organisms. After every three levels, the player is given a choice to upgrade to an organism in any four of these categories - perception, attack, defense, and movement. 

Psychobabble

Popcap.com originally developed the online education game as a video game – Psychobabble. The original game required players to choose words from a word bank and create sentences, phrases, in teams, and enter the answers in a chat room that was a part of the game. Due to the cost and time of monitoring these chat rooms for racy content, the game was eventually discontinued. Today the educational game is back in a new avatar! Available on the iOS platform, the game offers a variety of options to build one’s vocabulary and quicken the brain’s association with words. 

Fit Brains Trainer

Developed by Vivity Labs, the educational app is only available on Apple iOS. It’s just the right app for teens who find it mind boggling to deal with and balance busy schedules and developing hormones! Brains Trainer ensures their minds stay sharp amidst the chaos! Just a few minutes every day on the app can boost teens’ brain power, memory and problem solving skills!

Space Chem

Space Chem, developed by Zachtronics Industries, is available on all the three platforms of Google, Apple, and Windows. The educational game is loosely based on the chemistry and the principles of chemical bonding. The player is required to produce one or more specific chemical molecules by programming two remote manipulators called “waldos”.

With these 5 educational games apps, teens will soon learn that learning is as fun as sending IMs on smart phones and tablets!