1. Crush The Castle. This game, and “Crush The Castle - The Players Pack” sequel simply has to be on any list of the best or most popular Flash games of the past few years. Published by Armor Games, Crush The Castle like many great games is extremely simple, but amazingly addictive. The aim of the game is to use a trebuchet to knock down a castle, with each level getting progressively more difficult.

The gameplay is very simple, just click the mouse to start the trebuchet’s swing, and once again to release the ammunition. The game starts with only small rocks for ammo, but beating certain levels unlocks bigger rocks, multiple rocks and even bombs. Completing the game takes a good aim, and a certain amount of strategy. You’ll need to carefully choose the right ammo and tactics to crush some of the castles, and beat the entire game. If you love the first game and want more be sure to check out the sequel, and let’s hope for another game in the series soon!

2. Bloons. Once again, one of the most fun and addictive games is incredibly simple. In fact, even though I’ve completed every level more than once, I still go back to play it again! In the game you control a dart throwing monkey, and your goal is to pop all the balloons by throwing your darts. There are 50 levels in the first Bloons game, and loads more in the sequels!

You have a limited supply of darts, and the levels are designed in such a way that you’ll need to work out the right strategy for each level. You can pick up powerups along the way, and you’ll encounter special baloons types to burst. It’s a great game, and some of the sequels (such as Bloons tower defense) are almost as good too!

3. Grow Cube. OK so this is the odd one out, while the first 2 games on this list are incredibly simple and easy to explain, Grow Cube doesn’t really fit in a specific genre. The game makes the list though simply because it’s amazingly well designed and very clever, and a lot of fun. You control the game with 10 buttons, each of which add something to the cube. Your goal is to press the buttons in the right order to “grow” the cube.

Now if that doesn’t sound like much of a game, that’s only because you really need to play this game to understand it. It’s the intricate and funny animations caused by the player’s inputs whcih make the game so fascinating to play and watch. Get the order wrong and there will be terrible consequences, but get it right and you’ll be rewarded by watching all sorts of things happen in a cliver sequence. It’s impossible to get across the beauty of this game in words, so go and play the game and I’m sure you’ll agree with me that its place on this list is well deserved!

It’s a free to play poker game where you can pit your wits against other players all over the wrld for play money. The game features nice animated avatars and all the features you’d expect in a poker game like this, an easy to use lobby, chat features and more.

Play Texas Hold’em Poker

This is the first totally free and fully featured Flash poker games we’ve come across. It doesn’t quite have the polished graphics and “wow factor” of Governor of Poker, but since it’s multiplayer it cartainly beats it in the playability stakes!

Have a go, see what you think, and if you think that they can’t live up to the real thing then play Governor of poker instead - it’s by far the best free poker Flash game anywhere!

Flying Poker A bit of a strange combination of card game and arcade game in this poker-shooter!

Poker Jong A fun combination of poker and mah jong. Try to remove all the tiles, while making the highest scoring poker hands.

Poker Drop Make 5 card poker hands by clicking on adjacent cards and removing them from the grid.

Watch out for some new strategy games and sports games coming soon, along with a cool arcade game and a free tutorial for anyone interested in creating games themselves! (watch this space…)

It’s not often you’ll hear me calling a game beautiful, but that seems a fitting description for this… The simple graphics are ink drawings on paper, but they are so well done and really bring the images to life… Plus the 50 well designed levels are fun (if a little on the easy side) and well worth the Kwikgames game of the week!

Play Paper Canon now!

Please Heroik, hurry up and make Paper Canon 2 - I want to play the sequel already!

The game uses a very stylish silhouette graphical design which is quite striking and works really well for the genre.  It’s a 2D game, sidescrolling so there’s not a lot of depth to the gameplay and you’ll learn the tactics needed to beat each level quite quickly, but that doesn’t stop it from being a lot of fun.  If you’re a strategy game fan you’ll love it, if you’re not then this might be a good introduction to the genre for you!

Play Shadez 2 : Battle for Earth

Garden Take Away Herd the ants to the food and avoid the poison and hazards in this strange twist on the cooking game genre.

Kebab Krazy Make kebabs to your customer’s requests and build up a successful kebab business.

Hawaii Burgers Cooking burgers and selling them on a stall can be more challenging, and more fun then you might think!

Cooking games have become one of our most popular game categories with our younger visitors, but if you’re looking for more traditional game genres don’t worry, we have a fantastic real time strategy game and a great retro racing game coming in the next update tomorrow!

We’ll be adding more and more articles and tutorials to Flash Games Classroom over the coming weeks and months, so if you’re interested in learning how to develop your own games head over and check it out!

In today’s update, a new online driving games a couple of awesome new arcade games, and a free cooking game for our younger visitors…

Rave Rider One of the best examples of the side-on “offroad” style arcade driving game I’ve come across …

Bloons Tower Defense 4 Tower defense is nothing new, but as we’ve come to expect from the creatoers of the Bloons games, this is an awesome example of the genre!

Spectro Destroyer Nice retro-styled platformer.  Defeat the enemies to progress by bouncing shots of mirrors of the same color… lots of fun, give it a go!

Delicious Cake Shop One of the younger visitors…

Something for everyone again - sort of! Watch out for some sports games, shooters and arcade games coming very soon!

In today’s update, three online driving games and a puzzler!

Fast Track With a nod back to the 80s arcade classics like Outrun, this retro styled but modern driving game is a great litle blast…

Crash The Cars Rather than drive your car, why not crash it!  This bumper cars game is loads of fun… for a few minutes!

Space Race Who needs Wipeout, with Flash racing games like this!

Squanda And if you don’t like driving games do not fret, here’s a great little puzzle game for the non-drivers amongst you!

Something for everyone - sort of!  Watch out for some sports games, shooters and arcade games coming later in the week!