Shooting the Breeze: Gaming online
If you are stuck for online entertainment this half term, you might want to check out the multiplayer games available on Yahoo Games.
Available to anyone with a Yahoo account - you can sign up for free if you don't have one - Yahoo Gaming offers several multiplayer games based on classic games from categories such as card games, board games, arcade games, and word games.
Choose from simple games such as draughts to more complicated games like Literati (a Scrabble clone), bridge, canasta, cribbage, poker, and even pool for that 'authentic' chat-room/pub atmosphere.
The majority of games allow for private 'rooms' where approved members can invite friends, chat online, and some can participate in the game of choice in the room - it's similar to chatting around a pool table while two players actually play the game.
You may need to configure your firewall to allow your multi-player game to access the Yahoo Games server. You will require the Java plug-in and a reasonably fast computer to run the games.
