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If you fancy yourself as little bit of a green fingered person, you will love this game even though it can be a bit difficult and frustrating.

Basically you are a gardener who has a garden made out of a grid. Plants and flowers are growing like wild and you have to try and match up a minimum of five of the same flowers or plants in a row before more come. The idea is to try and keep the garden as clear as possible. It sounds very easy and to begin with it is but as the game progresses the flowers and plants come more quickly. In addition if there is not a clear path available to where you want to replant the flower or plant then you cannot move it.

Blooming Gardens can be found in the Puzzles section of www.games2go.co.uk and it is definitely worth having a go at this game. Not only is it fun and challenging but there is a lovely background sound of birds and bees in a garden atmosphere. The game is played by only using your mouse so you need to have good control. At first it is a little frustrating as the plants don't seem to move so easily but as the game progresses and you practice more you will find that it is easier to play. This game is most definitely a challenge game and not one that you can play without thinking and trying hard. Blooming Gardens is a game that I will go back to and play some more to try and better my score each time.

Agrovacations which can be found in the www.games2go.co.uk website lives up to its name of being quite aggravating!

In this game you have to help Bob who is the traveler get through the forest or jungle, it is not clear what it is meant to be and pick up diamonds on the way. Bob is armed with a gun that shoots bullets that look like balls at strange looking animals, all by pressing on the space bar. The idea of the game does have potential but the actual playing of it, is rather tedious and boring.

By using the left and right arrows you can move Bob backwards and forwards. The vertical arrow will make him jump and if you press the right arrow and the vertical arrow then he moves forward and jumps at the same time, the same applies for the left arrow. By pressing the down arrow you make Bob duck in case there are some nasty animals in the way. As the game progresses it becomes more and more evident that it is all the same. Basically you have little patches of grass that you have to jump on to and move along without being hit by the moving animals or falling off.

Every time you are hit by a moving animal you lose a life, a player gets a total of three lives per game. You can shoot and kill the animals or just jump over them. The game is very much about coordination and being able to move, jump and kill while also looking at the screen. Normally I enjoy games like this but for some reason I did not here, it could be to do with the boring graphics and lack of sound. The game had potential but just did not do it for me!

Adventure Elf is one of the cutest games I have played in a long time. Naughty penguins have stolen what they thought was tuna but it was really shiny packages ready to be delivered for Christmas. The elf called Oliver has to work very hard to get these presents back. Adventure Elf can be found in the free Games2Go website under the adventure heading.

Although Adventure Elf sounds easy there are a lot of tricks in it that make it fun and challenging. In the first round it is very simple to get to the penguins and kill them off thereby getting the presents back. The elf moves by way of the right and left arrows and can jump by pressing on the space bar. Along the way there are many obstacles that Oliver the Elf needs to overcome such as jumping over wooden crates that hold Christmas goodies and climbing up buildings without falling off. It sounds simple but when you come to play it is quite difficult.

As each level progresses the elf has more penguins to catch and harder tasks to overcome. Each level offers extra points that can be won by eating the doughnuts, biscuits, peppermints and other goodies. Oliver the elf needs to be careful as he goes that the does not fall too high or get knocked down in which case he loses a life. The elf has three lives throughout the course of the game.

In the version I played, there is a time limit of one and a half minutes to try and reach the target number of penguins and get as many points as possible. The timer can be clearly seen at the bottom of the screen. As the time runs out, you are made aware by the timer going down until it beeps out of time. The aim of the game is to try and get the penguins together with as many points as possible. Adventure Elf is a great game that can be played time and time again and each time you better your score.

Do you like word games? Well if you do, you must try this Balloon Pop game. It is basically just like the traditional hangman but instead of a man being hung, you pop balloons.

Having said that, with this game you only get 7 chances to guess the word. In other words there are only seven balloons and if you pop all of them i.e. get 7 letters wrong you are out of the game. The board is very simple with a man sitting at the side of it holding a megaphone and 7 balloons. In the centre of the screen you will see dashes according to the number of letters that there are in the word that you are trying to guess. Underneath the dashes or spaces is the alphabet.

The game starts as soon as you are ready and click on the first letter that you are guessing. I tend to go through all of the vowels first as that is the most obvious. Once you have been through the vowels then you really have to start thinking. If you get a letter wrong, the megaphone man not only pops a balloon but also sends out a smart comment like" Ouch that hurts" or " I thought you had this one" and so on. They aren't exactly encouraging comments but they do make you want to get the word and beat the system. If you take too much time between letter choices, you also get comments. This is definitely a fun game for those thinking people out there and you feel like you are using your head and not just playing a game aimlessly!