When my daughter was younger, we used to play games together all the time. Back then, we enjoyed countless board games and card games. As fellow parents know, board games are a great way to spend time at home with the family. These days, it seems that video games have replaced most board games and card games. Unfortunately, many video games (and mobile apps) are less family-friendly than the board games of yesteryear. Thankfully, Poki.com hosts plenty of educational video games that provide family-friendly fun.
Poki is a gaming portal with countless wholesome titles. Available on desktops, laptops, and mobile phones, the Poki website hosts the best games. They’re all free to play, and new games are added every day. After you enjoy a few titles on Poki, they’ll start to recommend the perfect games for you! I think of Poki as a free Netflix for gaming. There are more games than you can imagine, new titles keep appearing, and their recommendation system gets smarter and smarter. All you have to do is click the thumbs-up button for games that you like, and Poki will feature similar titles. It’s rather clever and perfect.
Lately, I’ve spent a lot of free time enjoying the Educational Games section on Poki that you can also enjoy here. It’s an inspiring category filled with games that help players learn. If you’ve ever played Elevate or Peak on your smartphone, then you’ll be familiar with this category. Much like those iOS and Android apps, Poki’s educational games can actually improve your cognitive abilities. And yes, the educational games on Poki are just as fun as the mini-games in Elevate and Peak!
The concept of “brain-training” has become quite popular lately, with new mobile apps that offer paid and free challenges. Poki doesn’t charge a penny for its games, which is a big advantage over its mobile competitors. On Poki, you don’t have to download any of the games, either. Each title loads in your browser, making the entire selection process much easier. When I’m on Poki, I know that I don’t have to worry about going to the App Store, sorting through a list of titles, and installing an app on my phone. Instead, I can simply click on a great game from Poki’s curated collection, and I’m playing within seconds.
There are many different types of brain-teasing mini-games in the Educational Games category. Certain subgenres are straightforward and simple, such as typing games. In these titles, you’ll race against the clock, typing as many words as possible. Different difficulty levels ensure that younger players and advanced typists are challenged fairly. These games actually make typing unbelievably fun and addictive. In Space Words Defense, you’ll use an array of missile blasters to protect alien planets. When you type words, you launch explosives at enemy spaceships! In Type for Gold, you’ll compete in fun track & field races. The faster you type, the faster you run.
Other educational titles will test your map-reading and geography skills. I thought USA Map Test would be easy for me, but it was pretty tough! These types of games are also great for students, as they can actually help prepare children for quizzes and tests. By turning the quiz into a game, children have fun while learning.
There are simply too many educational games to list here. The available learning experiences cover so much ground, from memory challenges to focus tests. I can safely recommend any of the educational games on Poki for your children and you. There’s no shortage of games for adults, with mini-games that include tough logic puzzles and reaction-speed challenges. One of my favorite games, Tingly Brain Trainer, includes all of the above. In addition to regular levels, there’s also a daily challenge that keeps me playing (and exercising my brain) every day.
This giveaway is fully sponsored by Poki
And now, it’s prize time! I’m happy to announce an exciting giveaway: Poki and I will award one of our lucky readers with an Amazon Fire Tablet! That’s right, we’re giving the award-winning 7” mobile media center to one of you. The 8GB Fire Tablet has Wi-Fi for easy access to millions of movies, games, TV shows, and e-books. Enter the giveaway for your chance to win!
I love these types of educational games, especially ones that teach you how to properly type on a Qwerty keyboard. It took a LONG time for me to learn how to do it properly. Great Idea for the kids.
Id love to play 1010 deluxe, it looks like my type of game.
Blockor.io looks right up my alley!
I want to play Wormax!!
I like basketball multiplication for my 3rd grader.
My boys love playing games, I know they’d love the Pokemon game! I also homeschool so these educational games would be great! Thanks for the chance.
Minecraft pocket edition I think tablet is very cool for me and my family! 🙂
I want to play dunkers. It looks like a fun game.
My kids would probably like Super Police Pursuit
I would play Ghost Wiper.
Tap the black line! Love the puzzle game where u have to be quick!!!
Fireboy and Watergirl looks like a cute game to play.
I think I’d enjoy blockor.io, but several of these look awesome!
My kids would have fun with endless truck!
Tap the Black Tile looks fun.
Angry Birds!
I’d say Barn Yarn. Looks like they have a lot of fun games!
I love educational apps!! My family travels a lot and having things like an amazon fire tablet is amazing!! Happy kids equals happy mommy!!
I would like to play pet pop party
pele: soccer legend looks fun
My grandson would probably love the Ninjago and even the Transformers game. He seems to be into these all of a sudden.
I think my kids would love to play Happy Wheels!
Tap the black tiles looks so fun for me and the kiddos!
My son would LOVE MineBlock!
i would like to play Madalin Stunt Cars 2 game.
I like the tingly brain trainer, my son would love the wheely series 🙂
We love tap the black tile
I’d like to play Bob the Robber3
I would most like to play Dunkers or Mineblock. They have a nice selection of games.
I’d play color switch, my son would play the Pokemon game and my daughter the Blockor.io
I am a big candy crush fan. I am recently out of work and candy crush for my sanity
My son is completely into all things Pokemon right now, so he would be crazy about the Pokemon games like Kogama: Pokemon, Pokemon Run, and Catch Those Pokemon.
I would play Mineblock
Minecraft Pocket Edition really encourages creativity and pushes your imagination. It is a great learning tool.
I would like to play ghost wiper
I’d love to play slither.io – I’ve seen my daughter play it and it looks cute!
I would like Franky Valet Parking
Looking forward to checking out the hidden object games – my favorites!
I’d like to play Pokemon!
I would like to play bubble charms
I want to play MindBlock. It looks like a fun game.
I’d like to try Mineblock!
wormax looks like it would be fun.
I’d love to play Hunters World, and I know my 3 kids would love to play most of them! My two girls would definitely have fun playing Guinea Pig Care and also My Pony Park 🙂 Thanks for introducing me to this site!!
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Tomb Runner looks like fun. I wonder if it is like Tomb Raider that I used to play.
I would like to play Back to Candyland 2. I like matching games.
I want to play Ghost WIper
my kids would loove to play the game Tomb Runner!
A game I would like to play on Poki is Soccer Legend.
Dunkers game looks like fun.
Slither.io sounds very interesting and fun!
My 15 year old got everyone hooked on color switch 🙂
Thanks for the chance.
My daughter would love to play Slither.io!
I’d love to play Tomb Runner! It looks fun and I think my 13 year old son would love to play that one too 🙂 So many fun games to choose from!
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I would play Color Switch
I’d love to play tomb runner!
We would choose card games they are fun and challeging!
Tomb Runner is so much fun! But with all of these games I’d have to try them all 🙂
Pele Soccer Legend, she loves soccer
The truck looks cute. My son would sloshing enjoy it
Tomb Runner looks like fun.
I’d play mindblock
Color Switch!
Super Police Pursuit looks fun.
I would like to play the Tomb Runner game, it looks like fun.
Flip Diving
I’d like to play Super Police Pursuit
I would like to play Elsa and Barbie Blind Date. I love Elsa and Barbie and this looks like a really fun game.
I’d play a word game.
Color Switch sounds cool
I want to play Wormax
Berry Rush
Minecraft Pocket Edition looks really fun
The movie games seem like they would be very fun and exciting.
Would love to play Mortal Kombat!
i like the brain trainer, color switch and pursuit game
Thank you so much for the chance! So many games to pick from, I know my son would love to play kogama-pokemon!
My daughter would also like Color Switch!
Flip Diving looks interesting!
I’d also love to play Moto X3M! I know my kids would love this one too 🙂 Yesterday I played Color Switch for the first time and it was so fun! Thanks for introducing me to this site.
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Endless truck is cute 🙂
I’d play Kogama: Pokemon!
I would play Ghost Wiper
They all look so fun. ugly invasion sounds interesting!
My grandson would love anything to do with MineCraft.
I’d like the black tile game
I’d like to try 3D Car Simulator.
My kids would love the block party!
The Heads Arena: Soccer All Stars game looks like fun to play.
Fireboy & Watergirl 2. I love puzzle games!
My son would love to play slither and I would love to play Blocker.io
Color Switch is a cool game!
We homeschool and I’m really excited to introduce Basketball Multiplication to my kids
I want to play Run 3
Ghost Wiper looks fun and my son would love it
Super Police Pursuit love this game thanks fun one
Would love to play the Lego Star Wars: The New Yoda Chronicles game!
I’d keep it for myself to host a number of books to read on it.
I would also play Dunkers
I would like to try Mine Block…it would probably block my mind!! LOL
I would also like to play the game Happy wheels.
Pele: Soccer Legend would be a hit at my house.
Oh he would really enjoy the Mickey’s Soccer Fever game!
I would love to play the pokemon game! I grew up in the 90s so that is my favorite game!
I’d like to play Spelling Scramble on Poki.
Papa’s Cupcakeria 🙂
The 3D Car Simulator game looks like a lot of fun.
London Rex looks fun.
love to play the pursuit game
I would like to play Tomb Runner on Poki!
Dunkers looks sort of like a classic game.
I would like to play Flip Diving
Dunkers looks fun!
I would play Wild Race.
I would love to play Papa’s Cupcakeria please. kristiedonelson(at)gmail(dot)com Thank you.
Kogama Pokemon!! I might have to share with my kids lol Thanks!
Pretty Puzzle Princess
I’d like to play Color Switch!
I’d play The pocket edt. Of MineCraft!
Slither looks like a fun game!
i would like to play Descendants: Hidden Objects game
My son would love endless truck ♡
I would like to play bubble charms and some of the other puzzle games.
That USA Map Test game looks neat! I’d love to use it to learn my geography a little better!
I love the Papa’s Cupcakeria game
Thank You for the great giveaway
I would play Madalin stunt cars 2. it looks fun!
Oh I think he would also love the Heads Arena: Soccer All Stars game!
I would like to play bubble charms
I’d like to try Dunkers.
Elsa and Barbie Blind Date looks really cute.
My daughter is all into Pokemon. The Kogama: Pokemon game might be right up her alley
There are sooo many games to choose from! I like switching up now and then so it’s hard to pin point one game in particular!
I know my boys would like Tomb Raider.
My kids would love minecraft
I love introducing new educational toys to my youngest grandson. It is something we can do together. Thanks for the introduction to Poki.
I’d really like to play Kogama: Pokemon game too!
Minecraft , I still yet to be proficient in it.
I think Wormax looks awesome ! I can see myself and boys battling at keeping the high score!!
Papa’s Cupcakeria game looks fun!
Wormax
Kogama: Pokemon looks fun my kids would love these games
I would like the Matt vs Math game.
Papa’s Cupcakeria looks like a fun game, thanks for the chance to win.
I think I would like tap the back tiles
I think my kids would love to play Happy Wheels!
I would love to play Color Switch please. kristiedonelson(at)gmail(dot)com Thank you.
Happy Wheels looks fun!
I liek the Color Switch.
I love puzzle and thinking games so I would choose to play the Apothecarium game!!!
I would like to try City Rider.
Id like to play Pele: Soccer Legend.
Oh they have so many good ones! I think Mickey’s Robot Laboratory game would be fun!
Dunkers would be for me.
I want to play happy wheels
I would play color switch!
My daughter loved playing Slither.io. she felt like it taught her how to be careful.
Thank you for the chance to win, Happy Thanksgiving!
The Portal: The Flash Version game could be cool.
2048
Wormax
The Tomb Runner game looks so colorful. I think the whole family would enjoy that one.
Wormmax.io looks nice and mindless and soothing.
We would try out a variety of all these games! Thanks for the giveaway and Happy Thanksgiving! 🙂
I would love angry birds!
I would like to try Flip DIving
Color switch looks fun
I would play Color Switch
I think pet pop party looks like fun
I would love to play Slither.io, which looks like so much fun!!!
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I would have to say this one Minecraft pocket edition thanks
I’d like to play tomb runner!
I want to play slither.io
I would like to play the London Rex game!
Like to try Run 3
Oh Pack The House also looks so fun!