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" During your downtime, do you itch for something a little more engaging than watching television? If so, you&amp;#039;re not alone. Tapping into people&amp;#039;s love for Sudoku, crossword puzzles, card games and trivia, dozens of online gaming sites offer everything from quick brain busters to elaborate adventure games. Aside from being a fun and easily-accessible trend, studies have shown that regular puzzle-solving sessions (for as little as a few minutes a day) can significantly stave off Alzheimer&amp;#039;s disease. WD.com has its own free brain-boosting games, but if you are looking for a variety of game types, we rounded up three websites that have entertaining ways to spend the day.    Games.Yahoo.com For many online gamers, Yahoo! Games is considered the Mecca of all game websites. With hundreds of thousands of hits a day and dozens of games to choose from, the portal&amp;#039;s gaming destination boasts a variety of card, trivia, puzzle, board and word games. Unlike most of the games, which require players to have a Yahoo! account, the &amp;quot;5-Minute Daily Games,&amp;quot; located at the bottom of the homepage, let&amp;#039;s you play\u2014and even save your game\u2014without an account. If you&amp;#039;re ready to expand your gaming territory, go ahead and create a Yahoo! account (it&amp;#039;s free) then click on the category of games you like to play. Within a category, each game has the option to be played on the Web, downloaded or both. Web-based games are free, while downloadable games have free trial offers as well as the option to purchase it for $6.95.    Pogo.com We love this website&amp;#039;s sleek, streamlined homepage, where you can choose from over 75 games and play alongside 200,000 people. Notable diversions can be found on the &amp;quot;Card Games&amp;quot; page, which sports cute, animated reinventions of Solitaire, Free Cell and Hearts. Every category page organizes the games by popularity\u2014instantly clueing you into what others are playing. Like Yahoo! Games, Pogo.com also lists its six most popular games on the homepage, letting you click instantly on favorites, without having to sort through additional pages. A fun feature of Pogo.com is that it works like an online arcade: You set up a free account, earn tokens after playing each game and then trade in tokens for prize drawings. For a small fee, you can opt to play games without any pesky advertisements.    1001OnlineGames.com The burst of this website&amp;#039;s magenta background is as surprising as its quirky collection of games. While having the same game categories as Yahoo! Games and Pogo.com, 1001OnlineGames.com prides itself on its 70 enticing puzzle-related games. Each game is rated by users using a 5-star system, making puzzle-picking a breeze. The site hosts most of its games, (which vary from Crazy Cow, where you guide a distressed bovine into a barn, to Sewer Escape, where Wacko the Hamster must flee to the street), but also links to outside websites like PopCap.com. All games are free, though deluxe versions are available for the purchasing price of $19.95.   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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