Instructions for the Free Critical Thinking Games
3D Logic - A great free online 3d game that tests your critical thinking skills. To link the colored markers you left click the mouse and hold, draw across the marker, and then release left button. Link every pair of like colored markers to finish the Cube activities. You cannot link cells diagonally. If you break an existing link, reselect the broken link color by clicking on one of the two markers, then plug the gaps. It can be tricky and requires a lot of thinking. Black cells are blocked. Sometimes this game can make you think winning is impossible but you should be able to get through it if you play for a while. The game saves your progress so you can come back to it later. The goal is to connect the same colored squares to each other using continuous lines.
Daily Chess - This free online game is not your ordinary everyday chess game. The object of this game is to figure out what the correct move would be. The quiz begins in the middle of a game. You have to answer the question of what the best move would be. Think it over for a while and then move your chess piece. If you get the quiz wrong on your first try, don't worry. You can keep trying until you get it right. If your thinking skills get maxed out, there is a hint button. Use it if you think the quiz is impossible to solve and it will show you a few choices of where the smart move would be. There are three levels of difficulty; easy, medium, and hard. The puzzles are updated daily. The program is by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen who have won twelve titles as World Computer Chess Champion. He is the leader in the all important computer chess rating lists and are accepted as the best chess program for PCs. Since 1996, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen's Shredder chess program has won twelve titles as World Computer Chess Champion.
Number Cruncher - If you have math skills or want to develop your math skills, this is the free game for you. When you click start, you will be presented with a math question. The bar that gets shorter at the bottom is your time limit so don't take too much time. Calculate the result and enter it in the answer bar, then click continue. If you are correct, there will be points added to your score. If not, don't fret as you will be asked another question when you click the continue button. This is a really good exercise for the mind.
Guess the Flag game - If you were not good at social studies, this free online quiz will seem impossible. The idea is to pick the country of the flag shown. When you click start, you will be presented with a flag and four possible countries that the flag could represent. Think it over, but don't take too long as there is a time limit. Select a country and click continue. If you are correct, your score will improve. If not, try again.
Pipe Mania - Pipe Mania is like Tetris for the thinking man. The same skill set is needed. The object of the game is to build a pipe between the start and end point. The pipe in the the black circle is the current pipe that you will place on the board when you click your mouse button. To get to the next pipe in the line without using the pipe in the circle, just click on the pipe you just put down again. Do not be thinking all day as there is a time limit. Once you have made the pipe that you think goes from start to finish, click the three forward arrows in blue on the bottom right hand side of the screen. Your pipes will be filled to see if you correctly laid the pipes down. If you did, then you will advance to the next level.
Lights Off - In this free game the object is to try and turn the lights off. Click on a light to toggle both the light you clicked and the surrounding lights. Get all of the lights turned off and you win. Think before you click because you're trying to turn the lights off in as few moves as possible.
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