Dr. Ice's Sports and Games Hotlist

Sports, Outdoor Games, and Recreation

• The Weather Channel Home Page
  
  
• Geocaching.com (Outdoor technology-enabled "treasure hunting", with company headquarters in Seattle)
  
  
• Seattle Area Parks and Gardens
  • List of Seattle Parks
  • Kubota Garden
  • Seattle Japanese Garden
  • University of Washington Botanical Gardens
  • Marymoor Park (Redmond, WA)
  • King County Parks
  • Snohomish County Parks
  • Pierce County Parks
  • Find a Washington State Park
  • List of U.S. National Parks
  • City of Tukwila Parks
  • City of Burien Parks
  • City of Edmonds (WA) Parks
  • City of Seatac (WA) Parks
  • City of Shoreline (WA) Parks
  • Nature & Parks in Seattle on Tripadvisor
  
  
  
• Skiing and Winter Recreation in Washington State
  • Snoqualmie Pass
  • Stevens Pass
  • Mt. Baker Ski Area
    
    
• Seattle Parks - Sports Teams and Athletic Facilities
• Washington State Women's Soccer Association
  
  
• Canoe and Kayak Rentals at the University of Washington
• Kayaking In Washington
• Seattle Parks - Boating
  
  
• Seattle Parks - Off-Leash Dog Areas
  
  
• Best Mountain Biking Trails in Washington - per Alltrails.com
• Mountain Biking Areas
  
  
• Hikes with Dogs in Washington State
• Seattle-area Pro Sports Teams

Online Games, Computer Games and Fun Interactive Web Sites

• One Guess Per Day Games (Wordle and its cousins)
  • Wordle (at The New York Times)
  • Nerdle (like Wordle, with numbers)
  • Globle (like Wordle, with countries on our planet)
  
  
  
• Online Meeting and Party Games and Icebreakers
  • Mural Template: Team Warm-ups and Energizers (requires a free Mural account)
  • Jackbox Games (requires an account)
  • 21 Free Fun Icebreakers for Online Classes and Meetings (from Symonds Research)
  • 35 Best Icebreakers for Your Virtual and Hybrid Meetings (from Katy Mrvova)
  • 8 Virtual Icebreakers to Use in Remote Meetings (from Susan M. Heathfield on TheBalanceCareers.com)
  
  
  
• Language Learning Apps & Games
  • Duolingo.com (nice, gameified learning, most aspects are available in the free version, including education podcasts)
  • Rosetta Stone (Subscription required, look for discounted versions at Amazon and Costco)
  • Language Learning at Coursera (Coursera account required, some free and some paid classes)
  • Babbel.com (Babbel account required, free trial - as far as I can tell, I haven't tried this one)
  • Language Courses at edx.com (Coursera account required, some free and some paid classes)
  • Language Courses at Memrise (Paid account required, free trial and then whole app drops dead)
  • Global Languages at MIT OpenCourseware (Free MIT courses, includes literature, history, culture and linguistics)
  • ASLConnect (American Sign Language for free from Galludet University, also see the ASL Connect YouTube Channel)
  • The Best Language-Learning Software for 2022 (from PC Magazine)
  
  
  
• Online Etch-A-Sketch
  • Magic Etch-A-Sketch Screen by Sierra Constanza on Github, this one uses a mouse and has color and grid options
  • Online Etch-A-Sketch by Jennifer DeWalt, this one employs arrow keys to sketch
  • A variety of drawing program projects - by MIT students
  • Many more online Etch-A-Sketch projects The available options change frequently, so this is a link to search results at DuckDuckGo.
  
  
  
• Band Name Generator
• Fantasy Game Character Name Generator - Many options!
• Surrealism.com - home of the surrealist compliment generator
• Internet Anagram Server
• Automatic Complaint Letter Generator
• Geek Code Generator
• The Nerdity Test (100 questions)
• The Nerdity Test (500 questions)
  
  
• Online Currency Trackers
  Enter your currency and see where in the world it's been and where it goes after you spend it.
  • Where's George? track United States currency
  • Where's Willy? track Canadian currency
  • Euro Bill Tracker
  
  
  
• Conway's Game of Life (Not Really A Game)
  
  
• Interactive Web Games
• SimCorp

A goofy game! :-} There's this web site where you can generate fake Windows error messages with whatever text you like. Just don't give this site to your sysadmin! ! Image created 2005 at http://atom.smasher.org/error/