# Online Games

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-games/255190>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 15, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-games/255190 "2004-07-15T01:47:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![Skully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skully)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-games/255190/1 "2004-07-15T01:47:24Z")

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What are your favorites?

I would really enjoy playing some of the downloadable games on yahoo, but I have to pay for them. Then I would have to explain to myself why I spent $25 on a game called “Lemonade Tycoon.”

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**Author:** ![BethCro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cdc98d/32.png) [@BethCro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BethCro)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-games/255190/2 "2004-07-15T01:58:50Z")

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City of Heroes - but sadly my laptop here in the US won’t play it with me, so I am 6 weeks and counting without my fix, and they’ve not even sent me the comic!

Bespelled at [zone.msn.com](http://zone.msn.com) - bought it, spent many a happy hour playing (tho I’d rather be bashing baddies in CoH instead)

Cribbage at [zone.msn.com](http://zone.msn.com) - especially the tournament rooms, room 2 in particular (why yes, I am going to be hosting there, why do you ask?)

Scrabble at [play.games.com](http://play.games.com) - Scrabble lobby is the best

Various other games at zone and play.games - passes the time and sometimes you happen upon a good one

Yahtzee at can’t remember where - good for when a friend is rambling online with a long involved story which only requires a "yeah’ or “he didn’t!” every couple minutes

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**Author:** ![Murcielago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Murcielago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murcielago)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-games/255190/3 "2004-07-15T02:09:15Z")

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I had never played snooker before finding [this game](http://www.playaholics.com/play_game.php?game_name=lightningbreak&sort=game_name_full), now I may start looking for tables in real life.

Also a few good ones at [Yeti Sports.](http://www.yetisports.org/englisch/playonline.html#)

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**Author:** ![Martiju](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@Martiju](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martiju)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-games/255190/4 "2004-07-15T14:40:22Z")

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> [@Murcielago](#):
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> I had never played snooker before finding [this game](http://www.playaholics.com/play_game.php?game_name=lightningbreak&sort=game_name_full), now I may start looking for tables in real life.

If you do, please don’t think that’s what the table or the rules are actually like…

🙂