My mother in law wants to play free browser games, and I need to find a reputable website that I can put a short cut to on the desktop and say “have at it”. Searching around, it appears that the vast majority of free game websites are tar pits that fool naive peopleinto clicking on bad stuff and installing god knows what. Then their younger relatives have to spend their holiday vacation time fixing it, usually by reinstalling Windows.
Not complicated games, just mindless casual stuff, and plenty of it. The less ads to confuse them, the better. No 'you must download our totally not malware executable in order to play" bullshit. No free 10 minute trials. All of that sort of stuff confuses and enrages them. Imagine I’m asking for game recommendations for the Hulk, only he’s not a nuclear physicist.
I spend a lot of time playing traditional card games, against the computer. Like cribbage, gin rummy, hearts.
A lot of computers have Hearts pre-installed, along with Soitaire…
A good cribbage game can be found at http://www.netintellgames.com/cribbage.htm but if you don’t pay for a subscription, you get an infinite number of repatable trials, which are long enough to play one game, and you have keep closing it after each game and restarting a new trial.
There are a lot of Chess games you can downooad.
Scrabble has been blocked (the miracle of intellectual property laws) but there are a few similar games that are just different enough to evade copyright infringement.
Facebook has tons of games. Takes a bit of effort to keep them from spamming the hell out of your friends newsfeeds, but you can make a dummy account just for gaming…
They already play the traditional games that come with Windows, but they want more variety. Facebook games are out, they won’t touch FB and there’s no convincing them to try.
Lots of games on the long-venerated Pogo.com too: cribbage, euchre, hearts, spades, bridge, canasta, words games, casino games, puzzles, hidden objects, etc.
All free to play or a $40 yearly membership shuts down ads.