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Tutpup: A Social Learning Site for Kids

Tutpup is a social learning site where students and teachers can compete with each other by playing different educational games. The service focuses on helping children gain confidence and mastery of basic educational skills. A user may register as a teacher or as a student. Teachers can let students join the class through a class code that the teacher provided. The service is free for any child to use and children can only participate with their parent or guardian’s approval.

A user can choose to play a game of Math, Maths Mix, Spelling and TimeTables. Upon choosing which game to play, the user can wait for another player to accept the challenge or he/she can instantly play a game with a random player in the network. Each game category comes in different levels of difficulty (from level 1 [Easy Peasy] to level 8[Area 51]).

The Graduation page shows your progress through the games and levels. You need to answer 10 correct questions in 3 games to graduate to the next level. The win wall page displays the triumphs of a user over another player. This will provide motivation for young children to master different educational skills through competition. Tutpup can be a valuable tool for teachers who are looking for additional learning tool for students. It’s a fun way of teaching and a fun way of learning.

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Social Networking – Big Brother Style

Tengaged is a multiplayer social networking game which has similar rules to the popular reality TV show Big Brother. Like they said, “If you know how the BigBrother TV show works, then you’ll understand the game a lot faster.”

For starters, all you have to do is to sign up for a game and once ten people (including you) have signed up, then the game will begin. You get to interact with other nine “housemates” within the game by sending comments or private messages which all of them may be rated positively or negatively by the other contestants. The game runs for seven days and at the end of each day, an algorithm will choose three worst participants and one of them will be voted out by the remaining participants. The final winner will be chosen by the same algorithm.

Tengaged offers an interesting social networking format. Instead of just looking on a profile, adding that profile to your list of friends and hoping that it adds you back, Tengaged makes it mandatory for participants to interact with each other in a socially competitive manner. It’s actually a brilliant marketing idea to get users to visit their site everyday.

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Help Find Cure for Diseases by Playing Foldit

Foldit is an online game that enables you to contribute data for medical scientific research by playing it. Foldit attempts to predict the structure of a protein by taking advantage of people’s puzzle-solving skills and having people play competitively to fold the best proteins.

Since proteins are part of many diseases, they can also be part of the cure. Foldit will basically collect game data and use it to predict protein structures. The more knowledge they have about protein folding, the better they can design new proteins to combat the disease-related proteins and eventually find cure for diseases.

We’re collecting data to find out if humans’ pattern-recognition and puzzle-solving abilities make them more efficient than existing computer programs at pattern-folding tasks. If this turns out to be true, we can then teach human strategies to computers and fold proteins faster than ever!

The game play is quite simple but can be very addictive and challenging. You will be given a 3D model of a protein and your job is to find the most stable structure to prevent Amino Acids from clashing. In order to complete a puzzle you must achieve or go beyond the target score. Check out the demo video below to see the game in action.

Foldit will give everyone a chance to contribute in discovering cure of HIV, Cancer and other diseases. If you want to try out the game, head over to their site, register and download the game client which supports both Windows and Mac OS-X operating systems. Who knows, you might be the key to finding cure for diseases which continually kills millions of people.

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Play a Strategy Game in your Browser with WeeWar

WeeWar is a free to play round based online multiplayer strategy browser game. As a player, you get to command an army. With that army, your goal is to capture all the bases in the map and obliterate your opponents. Capturing bases will generate income for a player to build new units. WeeWar is playable in the latest browsers and will not require a plugin in order to play.

To start playing, you can choose a map like the one in the image and set a desired speed for the game or you can join a previously created game if it is open. The player who created the game can invite up to five players depending on the map. A game can be on an invite only mode or open game where anyone is free to join. Once the game starts, the players take turns until the game ends. An end game is decided when all other remaining players are totally eradicated from the map or when players agree to a draw.

A single game can sometimes takes hours to finish depending on when you or your opponent takes a turn. An email notification can be sent to the player if his turn arrives. This is not a fast paced game and if you are expecting heavy graphics then this game is not for you. The graphics are very simplistic but the game is fun to play. So if you like taking long turns in a game or don’t mind waiting for a turn and like strategy games, maybe WeeWar is just the game that you are looking for.

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Guess the Google: Google Images Guessing Game

Guess The Google is an image guessing game which you might find entertaining and fun to play. The game is simple actually, you will be given a set of images which are taken from Google images and all you have to do is guess the keyword used in Google Image Search in order to display the following images. The answer is always a single word (keyword) only. You will be given ten (10) puzzles to solve per game and you have twenty seconds to come up with a keyword per puzzle. If you make a wrong guess, it will be subtracted from your total score and if you fail to guess the answer to the puzzle, the first letter of the answer will be given to you as a clue. Enjoy playing.

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Mytopia: Inter Social Network Gaming

We all have our favorite social networking site. With so many out there, it’s hard to choose which one works for a particular person with particular social networking need. Third party applications for these social sites are widely available. Some are exclusive and some supports different social networking platforms. An example of apps that supports different social platforms is My Mini Life.

Mytopia is an online gaming application that supports different social networking sites. It currently supports FaceBook, Bebo and MySpace. What makes the game unique is that instead of playing with your friends in your network, it lets you play with people from other networking sites mentioned above. While logged into MySpace, you can challenge Facebook and Bebo users with a game of poker or with other games available in Mytopia.

There a handful of games that you can play in Mytopia. You can play Video Poker, Backgammon, Bingo, Chess, Dominoes, Sodoku and a few more which are currently unavailable or under construction. The service is still in public beta stage so you can expect a few bugs on the games and unavailable features. Other than that, it is very functional and its ability to let you play with people from different (3 as of now) social networking sites makes it worth checking out.

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