Starship Eleven by Miniclip.com

Pilot your lunar-lander type ship through caverns where stone floors are ok to land on, but not smooth metallic platforms. Where pylons, lasers, and cave-fangs are all out to impede your progress through caves conveniently littered with power-recharges and checkpoint lampposts. Be prepared for some frustrating finger gymnastics trying to stay aloft and firing your missiles. [J.Y.]

Catch 'O The Day

There's nothing like a nice spot of fishing. A nice, deathly quiet, timed spot of fishing while being stalked by a whale. You've got thirty seconds to catch 3 skittish fish, which will flee if you use your motor near them, and the whale will capsize you if he gets the chance. The less you move your boat, the easier it is, which nicely mirrors the total boredom of watching a fishing show. [C.L.]

Hand Jibe by Pizmo Games

Brighty colored blocks, a rapidly filling board, a time limit. Here we go again. Don't concern yourself too much with the arcane rules; while a working knowledge of the noble art of Roshambo helps, after level 3 you'll be clicking all over in a panic anyway. [V.B.]

Grow Ornament by Eyezmaze

You people must have been good boys and girls, because Santa has come early! Ho ho ho, here's a new festive Grow. [V.B.]

Flying Spaghetti Monster - The Game by Venganza.org

Finally, honor has been restored to the phrase "touched by his noodly appendage" combined with a religious context. No longer the realm of courtroom testimony, the Flying Spaghetti Monster has taken the land by storm, converting worshippers to Pastafarianism like wildfire. Now you can live the experience of touching with your noodly appendage free from fear of restraining order. Only the tedious repetitive music will stand in your way. Bonus: Touching the people turns them into pirates. [J.Y.]

Vexed

Originally a Palm OS game, Vexed eschews the normal Flash game approach of exploding animals, and goes with a minimalist puzzle approach. The concept is simple, slide blocks, match colors to make said blocks disappear, and clear the board in the fewest number of moves possible. One of those games where the KISS principle (rock and rolling all night and parting every day) is proven. [J.Y.]

Grow Cube by Eyemaze

This is the latest offering in the delightfully unique Grow series. The gameplay hasn't changed: play god to a surreal little world, adding features and watching them interact. It's the epitome of Flash - creative, intuitive, and much too short. [S.G.]

Drop Kick the Faint

We're not really familiar with The Faint's oeuvre, but you have to have a certain amount of grudging respect for a band that encourages you to take a Captain Kirk-style two-legged running kick at them. [L.S.]

Slither Link

As far as Japanese imports go, interesting visual logic puzzles beat out saucer-eyed pre-teen bloodsport enthusiasts by a country ri. A nice touch: the "Try" and "Fix" buttons at the top of the puzzle, which let you try out possible directions for your number-contrained fences without losing your way entirely. If, you know, you need that sort of thing. [L.S.]

HoverBot

There seems to be a rule among neophyte Flashwrights that 90 percent of the effort that goes into making a game must be put toward coming up with awesome title graphics and finding a kickass soundtrack. This game? More like 95 percent. [L.S.]

Star Chemistry by Pizmo Games

There's games for jocks, games for nerds, and games for people with above-average spacial-logical reasoning abilities. Here, at long last, is a game for people who subscribe to Entertainment Weekly. It's like Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, but circular. Now with 30% more Renee Zellweger! [V.B.]

Kax2003

Do video games influence children to hold down a key in order to make a green arrow move in the direction it's pointing, while making sure not to hold it down for too long? Studies indicate no link between the two, but this game may make it hard to deny that the youth of today are being trained to be remorseless key-holding machines. [L.S.]

WordSlider

Hey, someone finally made a variation on those sliding number puzzles that's actually mildly interesting! Will wonders never cease! Maybe now community college students taking Intro to Flash can find some other game to sumbit for the final. [L.S.]

Clover

You've had your reflexes challenged. You've had your brainpower challenged. Now play the game that challenges your attention span to the very limits of its capacity. Can you concentrate long enough to find the four-leaf clovers in a field of three-leaf clovers? Do you have what it takes to care about this for several minutes? [L.S.]

Cubeoban

Get ready for set of sliding block puzzles that put the "brain" in "brainteaser." And, uh, the "teaser," too. But not the "ease." If there was an "often desk-poundingly difficult" in "brainteaser," Cubeoban would have put it in there. [L.S.]

Tobby Pachi

It's in Japanese, but once you figure out that you're supposed to grab and pull the circle the little dog is standing around, it becomes a lot easier to deal with. Just like college! It's something like Pong, something like pinball, and something like animal abuse. [L.S.]

Globz Minigame

Registration is not strictly necessary in this fun little exercise vaguely reminiscent of one of those sitcom episodes where two people get handcuffed together and slapstick ensues, only the instead of a sitcom it's Laa-Laa and Po from "Teletubbies" and instead of comedy involving hacksaws and telephone poles you have abstract dots and deadly pokey things. It's like that. [L.S.]

Lemmings

Lemmings. Man, that was a great game. Remember that game? Man, that was great. It was great to play while eating a big bag of Cornquistos. Man. Remember Cornquistos? Those were great. So crunchy. Those used to be great to eat while watching ALF. Man. Remember ALF? That was great. [L.S.]

Juggler

Pong is, let's be honest here, incredibly boring. So it's all the more astonishing when someone can find something to do with the basic pong structure that isn't one hundred percent pure pan-fried tedium. Juggler manages to be diverting for a few precious seconds by delivering a very soul-satisfying sense of rhythym, of being "in the groove" as the hepcats would have it. But it's still basically Pong. [L.S.]

Arithmetiles

Take one of your basic color-matching games, and change it so you're doing simple math problems instead. Play it for a few minutes, until you realize you're playing the sort of game anal retentive parents give their kids instead of actual toys, and run to wash the stink of education from your hands. [L.S.]

Nurikabe

If you love brainteasers, or you love to hate brainteasers, or you love to hate to love brainteasers, then you're going to love, love to hate, or love to hate to love Nurikabe. Respectively. Don't worry about the ".jp" in the URL, everything's nicely explained in English even a dummy could love, love to hate, or love to hate to love. [L.S.]

Starship Seven

Lunar Lander lacks lasers. Starship Seven supplies several. Lunar Lander's levels? Lifeless, largely lackluster. Starship Seven's stock saucers, supplies, strongholds, sundry. Lunar lander loses, Starship Seven scores. [L.S.]

Matrix Bullet Time Fighting Game

Have a seat. Let me tell you a little story. Way back in the 20th century there was a movie called The Matrix, which had something called "Bullet Time," a visual effect that was exciting for about four days, by which time it had been adopted, imitated, and parodied until everyone was sick of it. Then, years later, someone made a stick fighting game that sort of had bullet time, but really it was just slow motion. Okay, go get me a beer and do your homework. [L.S.]

Swap Job

Another Tetrispawn, this one a minor variation on Zookeeper. However, it's the weekend and the bit where you have to change the color on the background is kind of interesting. Plus, it has the oddest reason for the "nudity" icon yet. [L.S.]

Constellations

Would you like to swing on a star? Well, tough, you'd be vaporized instantly. But you can connect stars in this star-connecting game in which stars must be connected -- by you! [L.S.]