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October 12, 2005
Games that spook and go bump
If you're having trouble getting into Halloween, some free online games might get the spirit moving.
Halloweeeen is a simple run, jump and collect the candy game. (You're a small ghost.)
You seem to be able to land on the mean jack-o-lantern and squash it, but if you walk into it, it eats you.
This is best for smaller kids. I got tired of just hopping and didn't take it too far, so I don't know if it gets more challenging on later levels.
Halloween Smash will be more interesting to older kids and grownups: Align three or more objects in a row horizontally or vertically by swapping its position with an adjacent object. When you do, they drop out, new ones come in and spontaneous matches rearrange the board.
(If you're familiar with the Elf Balls Christmas game, it's the same action.)
There are 16 other Flash games linked on this page, which is a mixture of French and English I found on a Japanese site. Some French pop-unders got through the Firefox block, but the games are worth having to close a window.
The House is not quite a game, it's an interactive horror story set in a dark spooky house with a few clickable items, some of which need to be clicked a few times or clicked again after you've clicked something else.
Mildly interesting, not really for kids.
Posted by Sheila Lennon at October 12, 2005 06:57 PM