by Tonya Kirkpatrick

Created on: May 23, 2008   Last Updated: February 19, 2011

What is it that you look for when you are trying to find a place to play online games. Are you looking for a place that offers you a free membership or are you looking at sites that offer you little to no cost memberships. I truly believe that you get what you pay for.

What I look for when I am looking to play games is that the gaming site is offering me plenty of games that I will want to play. A site that will offer me something to learn also comes in handy. I want someplace that will offer me a bit of a challenge. Of all the free sites that I have tried my most favorite site is http://www.pogo.com/ At this site I can chat while playing games and I can collect items to use to purchase ways to win money. While playing some of the games you will actually get chances to win money by winning a spin on the token wheel. I haven't honestly won any money but I do love all the games. My favorite game lately has to be Mahjong Safari. In this game it is like the classic Mahjong where you match tiles but instead you are matching safari animals. After you collect certain tiles you will win a additional spin to try to win money.

Another site that I have found to have a lot of free games is on MySpace. You will have to be a member but signing up and having the advantage of being able to chat with other people on there and play games I found to be nice. I use that site for messages and also music. But I do spend alot of time on playing those games. I personally like the games Goldminer Vegas. I liked the old version of goldminer and so when I tried this game I was hooked. They have a lot of games that you will also find on yahoo or some of the other sites. Some of the other sites do offer you to become a member but for a small fee.

One site that I found to be nice was King.com. There you can also use chances to win money. I liked playing Zuma on this site and the classic Bejeweled game. Having a little one in the house makes it hard to really find games that you can loose your concentration on and come back to at a later time. With having that said I tend to look for gaming sites that I can pause the game and come back to it later. I want to be able to get to a certain point in a game and then be able to either save or be able to pause it for how ever long It is that I need to step away from the computer.

Other things that people look for are do these sites offer you ads. With Pogo If you use your plain regular membership with out paying for the club pogo, Then in between games you will see ads and be offered a chance to click on those ads. If you do decide that you want to click on a ad it will open a new window for you rather than stopping your game.

At King.com they offer ads but only at the start of a game or the end of it. Not in the middle of a game or when you achieve different levels. I have found that you can get disconnected quite frequently but it will save your stats and your user ratings.

With MySpace they don't use ads in their gaming because they feel like they achieve their amount of ads with all the webpages and user pages that they advertise on.

These are all the best free sites on the net that I have found for someone in their 20s and later. If you are searching for some child games then you wouldn't want to use these sites. They are more complicated and are for adults. I hope you enjoy this information and will try out these sites and will enjoy them as much as I do.

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