This morning my daughter showed me a great online game for kids (K-4 range) and I thought I’d share a very quick review.

Actually, my daughter finds this and other games through a site called PrimaryGames so that site will get first mention here.

Primarygames is a great site for playing free games for kids of all ages (it has some classic 80s arcade games for nostalgic adults). There are lots of games with hidden educational value as well as some that are just for fun. If you have a Wii console it also works well on the Internet Channel.  I found that with a little positioning of the screen the gameplay using the Wii was just as smooth as playing any other Wii game.  In this sense it may be the preferred method to visit the site as sometimes a PC will hang up momentarily (I suspect the ads off to the side may be the culprit).

There are a lot of unique puzzle games as well as a few twists on Tetris (that game was as addictive for me as Farmville is for most people today). Never thought I would be staying up late playing kids games but I had to beat “Blox Forever”. The games on this site are better than anything I’ve seen on Facebook and given the amount of time people waste on Facebook games this site is well worth checking out.  Plus, unless you manually do it you won’t be flooding your friends with status updates on achieving level 99.

Now on to the extremely short review of Monkey Go Happy 2. This game is actually a collection of mini games such as duck shoot, wac-a-mole, and other carnival type games. Most of the mini-games require only the directional arrows, space bar, and mouse (or touchpad) so even little ones can play. This game definitely falls under the “just for fun” category since there is little educational value.

As an added bonus there is also a little monkey watching you play. While you are playing the monkey is crying. Once you complete each game the monkey “goes happy” with a wide grin and dance. While the monkey’s happy dance was a reward in itself the even bigger prize for me was my daughter’s laughter. It made my smile rival the monkey’s (no happy dance for me though…I have no rhythym).

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