MINI-Golf isn't the only game I am having fun with. I have found some old favorites in the Arcade.
One is called "Lunch Letters" and is my old friend "Letter Invaders" from the software "Typing Tutor." Letters fall from the sky, faster and faster as the levels progress, and you have to type them to destroy them. "Lunch Letters" in Webkinz has the letters falling within foods or hoagie sandwiches. Below, a goat janitor sweeps up any food you miss.
"Goober's Lab" is a Bejeweled-type game taking place in absent-minded scientist Goober's (he's a dog—looks like a St. Bernard) lab. You exchange "atoms" (they look like giant gumballs) set in rows to get arrangements of at least three in a row; they then vanish and are replaced by other atoms. Apparently this is the most popular game on Webkinz World and is one of the reasons so many adults have become hooked. (Wonder if I'm the only one who's been hooked by Mini-Golf? LOL.)
"Zacky's Quest" is Frogger. Zacky is one of the Zingoz critters—they look like ambulatory teardrops with eyes; this one is purple. You have to negotiate him through a course that includes Frogger-like logs and a street to get to caves containing bits of a treasure map. There are misshapen potato-like monsters to whack Zacky if he gets too near and a bird that swoops down to take him away. I haven't gotten past Level 2 yet, but that's part of the fun.
"Dex Dangerous and the Lunar Lugbotz" is Asteroid. Dex is the courageous lion captain protecting an asteroid from meteorites and strange alien ships. When the asteroid gets too many hits, plunk down it goes. Oh, well.
"Hungry Hog" is like Pac-Man. A pig must eat all the fattening foods to increase to the next level. Vegetables make him faster but also pop up new fattening foods. Don't get stung by the bees, which send you back to the beginning, and, if you get stung too many times, sent out of the game.
I don't know another video game equivalent, but I love something called Quizzy's Word Challenge. You must make words from letters posted in a grid on the screen. You get more points using the letters in the center square and the most money by finishing your word with the letter in the center, which often turns out to be a B or an H. Since this is a kids' website, many words are forbidden even if they are not scatological or considered curse words, so an additional challenge is added. Thankfully, it does consider some Britishisms.
I'll do a complete list of the games at some point.
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