While the seek and kill mentality is still prevalent, there seems to be a resurgent of games that actually require some skill and brain power. The WSJ noted quite a few Websites that provide free mind-bending games to keep our attention. And image that, it’s not the intense graphics that keep gamers coming back.

Not a big gamer myself, I decided to give one of the above mentioned sites a try. Not knowing what is good, or bad, I just sorted on the games by ranking, picked a non-intrusive sounding title, and found myself engulfed for 20 minutes. I was hooked, not by the graphics, not by the sound, and not by the blood and gore. I was hooked by the simplistic pleasure of trying to find out what it is the game wanted me to do. Eureka! A simplistic puzzle. And there are dozens out there, with more and more game programmers developing these simplistic puzzle games every day. Simplistic is somewhat of the wrong term as simplistic relates only to the graphics.

So, since it’s Friday, try out a puzzle game and get back to a more simplistic, yet intelligent, way of entertainment.