What could be more fun than mindlessly clicking around your screen for a red button?  Mindlessly clicking around your screen for a red button because you’re not smart enough to figure out the puzzle to reveal it?  That’s the concept behind ButtonHunt 3.

It may not be the flashiest Flash game, but it is one of the most compelling to play.  Feeling like a forgotten Nintendo project for the DS, ButtonHunt 3 is simple enough for anyone to start playing, but it will take some clever thinking to play well.  Post your tips and tricks for others below.

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Remember the good old days of learning to type?  You didn’t need an Internet connection!  All you needed was Mavis Beacon’s smiling face telling you to type something about a quick brown fox who jumped a lot over canines.

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Interested in helping children?  How altruistic of you!  Now, what if you could help children and have fun at the same time?  Fantastic!  What if on top of all that, you could also make yourself smarter by doing so?  Sound too good to be true?  Joining the quickly crowded field of helping web games, Aid to Children is another vocabulary builder where correct answers get money donated to charity, or in this case World Vision.  Now where else on the web are you going to kill three birds with one stone?

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What do you get when you cross Age of Empires with Halo and Lemmings?  Why, Age of War of course!  This little hybrid title is quite fun, if a wee bit on the difficult side.  The best winning strategy seems to be to mostly play defense until the last age, and then let loose on the opposing side.  Can you figure out a better strategy?  Be sure to post it in the comments section below.

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Shuffle is sort of like those cheap bowling games you might have gotten as a kid. There’s a ball you pull back on in an effort to hit pins, or in this case other balls. It’s a very simple premise, but also a very fun one to kill a few minutes during your day. What’s clever about it is that as you win and progress in rounds, it actually punishes you by moving your positions and the total number of rolls you get, essentially. It means that an incredibly simple looking title becomes incredibly addictive.

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Yes, this is basically FreeRice II: The Quickening. Regardless, Answer4Earth is still a fun game and it’s for a good cause. Answer random trivia questions and help plant a tree. What’s neat is that the difficulty of the questions auto-adjusts to how well you’re doing. It isn’t exactly how you’d like it to work maybe, but it’s fair enough for a web based game. And again, it is for a good cause. Now, are there possibly any more humanitarian games out there?

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No, today’s game isn’t about customizing your 1998 Toyota Corolla. Don’t worry, that game is surely in the works. Instead, FreeRice is a vocabulary quiz game that’s fun for a good cause. For every answer you get correct, the site donates 20 grains of rice to the UN World Food Program to help end hunger. Is a vocabulary quiz game actually fun? It’s strangely addictive mostly due to the fact that for once in a game, your high score actually means something. Be sure to comment below with your high score.

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What if Robotron and Galaga met at a party, had a few too many drinks and suffered the indignity of a love child together? That offspring would look a little something like Gamma Bros., and that is not an insult to this brilliantly fun little shooter. Choose your character and then battle through waves of suspiciously bug like aliens firing and moving in opposite directions. Sound like fun? It is.

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What is missing from gaming today? Ask any older PC gamer and they’ll definitely tell you point and click adventure games are almost a non-existent breed these days. This is true, but they have been reborn, as of sort, online. One of the more interesting is Guest House, which puts you in a locked room and challenges you to figure your way out. Smooth execution and soothing music highlight this game.

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The Tall Stump is the equivalent of a never released NES game finding its way to the Internet. Everything from the graphics to the “over before you know it” story introduction scream NES, but not the gameplay. The gameplay is a weird mix of the old and the new. The collecting of items feels old, but the physics based puzzles feel new. A great platformer with a spin for fans of the genre.

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