Games and Puzzles
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You have to have Java installed to play them. You have to think to win them.

Please remember these are to be played on your Free time,
not your teacher's time.

Connect 4 Play the traditional game of trying to get four in a row.
English 16 A puzzle created in the 19th century
Fiver A simple and surprisingly addictive puzzle than can be won in 4 moves
Hare and Hounds A board game invented in France
Hex-7 An elegant game of strategy invented in the 1940's
Peg Solitaire You remove pegs from the board by jumping them
Reversi This game was invented in London, in the last half of the 19th century
TacTix TacTix is a variation of Nim, one of the oldest of mathematical games
Tower of Hanoi
The classic puzzle, a favorite of programmers and Buddhist monks
Triplets A simple three-in-a-row game
Slider A couple of famous sliding block puzzles, a not-so-famous one, and an infamous one
Lights Out A game of on or off