It's Christmastime in the SCRIPT Block

January 8, 2002, 12:00 AM —  ITworld — 

After a long year of scripting, even we JavaScripters relaxed under the
tree (That's Christmas tree, not Document tree) and enjoyed a day of
being idle (and IDE-less). Although those who insisted on cranking up
the laptop during the holidays should have at least used their
computing cycles for something useful, like playing games. I've
compiled a list of JavaScript-based games here for your entertainment.
Of course, if you insist on looking at the code, then all of these
games will teach you a thing or two about how JavaScript works. A lot
of them, like the quizzes and trivia games, can be adapted to less
frivolous applications. Have a look.

Holiday-themed games

A "Spin the Dreidel" game:
http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/hanukkah/hanukkah.htm

Some Christmas games:
http://members.aol.com/kmgames/xmas/index.html

Send a letter to Santa:
http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/xmas/santa.html

Take a Christmas quiz:
http://wilstar.net/xmas/xmasquiz.htm

A couple of "Days Before Christmas" clocks:
http://html_help4u.tripod.com/tilxmas.html
http://javascript.internet.com/clocks/till-christmas.html

Games in general, without a holiday theme

Kazuhiro Moriyama's excellent games collection:
http://plaza.harmonix.ne.jp/~jimmeans/

A very nice graphical poker game:
http://www.5x5poker.com/5x5poker/pokerv3.cgi

Jared Zyskowski's maze generator...
http://www.humboldt1.com/~medusa/maze.htm?25

...his great interpretation of "Connect-4"...
http://humboldt.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jpz2/connect4/connect4.pl

...and his "Snobby Hangman" game:
http://www.humboldt.edu/~jpz2/hang.htm

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