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Games

Action Games
Breakout, Nibbles, and all your other favorites.

Latest Action Game: HickQuest
HickQuest is a Text Based Adventure programmed in Java using BlueJ. Fight your relatives for money to buy that velvet painting of Elvis you always wanted.

Arcade Games
Asteroids, Missile Command, and other shooters.

Latest Arcade Game: Shark Attack
You're trapped in deep water and surrounded by sharks in this Java game. Click on as many sharks as you can before the time runs out!

Card and Board Games
Blackjack, Poker, etc.

Latest Game: British Pool
Anyone want to shoot some pool? This applet allows you to play "British Billiards" against the computer or an opponent.

Dynamic Puzzles
Logic puzzles (ie. brain, not fingers) but with the computer as an opponent.

MaxMerge
This Java applet implements a fully configurable game which is a variational version of "Collapse" or "JawBreaker". You can merge all same connected objects and remove them from the board. You should try to maximize the length of the connected objects in order to receive a better score.

Games for Kids
You don't have  to be a kid to play these...

Latest Kids' Game Gotcha
Are you quick enough to capture the blue ball.... ~without~ also capturing a red ball? I think not.

Games of Chance
Slot machine applets and other games of chance.

Latest Game of Chance AScratchNWin
This free applet allows you to easily add Scratch and Win capabilities to your website! The 'percent' parameter allows you to specify the probability of a 'winning' item being displayed.

Logic Puzzles
No luck here, just logic. Bring your brain...

Latest Logic Puzzle Pegs
This is a game applet called Pegs. The object is to rid the game screen of pegs without losing your peg mover. Good luck!

Sports Games
Golf, Baseball, Pool...

Latest Sports Game Click Ball
How fast are you? Fast enough to keep the ball in the air? It's not as easy as it sounds.

Toys
A toy  is defined as a game with no objective. You can't win or lose, just play.

Latest Toy Java Juggling
Juggling your work, your home, and your family? Let's add some balls. This applet allows user to juggle up to three balls. It's not as easy as it looks.

Word Puzzles and Games
Crosswords, Wordfinds, and Hangman.

Latest Word Puzzle Scrabble 3D
A game much like the original board game, but instead of laying pieces on the board, you insert them in 3D space without gravity. Points are scored on your words letter length. Soon to be updated with AI CPU opponent.

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Time Management Made Easy with the Quartz Enterprise Job Scheduler
Why not just use the Java timer API? This open source scheduling API boasts simplicity, ease-of-integration, a well-rounded feature set, and it's free!

New Applet:

Reverse Complement
Reverse Complement is a simple applet that converts DNA or RNA sequences into three useful formats.

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