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GCompris A simple education game. In French GCompris is pronounce "j'ai compris" and means I Have Understood. The basic goal is to teach to children starting at 3 how to use a mouse and keyboard. Read more hot A Toddler Game A simple game for toddlers (1-3 year olds). AKFQuiz The package AKFQuiz lets you easily make your own quiz games, learning exercises or psychotests. These can be used with grquiz in a graphical environment, with diaquiz in a GUI environment or with crtquiz on the text-console. banihstypos Banihstypos is a simple game to teach you typing quickly. It helps you improve your typing by letting you type in a randomly selected word which scrolls by on the screen at an increasing speed. If the word hits the laser, you'll lose points. Bouncy the Hungry Rabbit You play Bouncy the Hungry Rabbit. You're in a garden with yummy veggies and a farmer who's not keen on you eating them. You can hide (and move around) under the ground. Canta Canta's goal is to provide a platform for playing and creating songs and singing to them into a microphone. Canta can be used just for fun or to improve the user's musical knowledge. ChaiDraw ChaiDraw is a simple toy meant both as educational software for beginning programmers to play with programming while getting visual feedback and as a test and example platform for usage of the ChaiScript scripting language. Childsplay Childsplay is a 'suite' of educational games for young children, like gcompris, but without the overkill of c/c++ and the gnome environ. Games for French pre-school Games for French pre-schoolincludes memory, letters falling, puzzle, labyrinth, letters & numbers, double entry arrays, domino, counting, enumeration, draw, sort, and arrangement. Gamine Gamine is a game designed for 2 years old children who are not able to use a keyboard. The child uses his mouse to draw colored dot and line on the screen. Jammer The Gardener The aim of the game is to fight off slugs and wasps that are intent on attacking your garden using the colour coded weapons. Read more JIMaths JIMaths is a small application that helps teachers automate the process of creating simple arithmetic problems of adding, subtracting, and multiplication. Kalcul Kalcul is a game for children, aged 8 to 15 to help them improve their math skills interactively. Kard Kard is a game for small children, aged 2 to 7. Its aim is to help develop memory and concentration. Keyano Keyano turns a PC keyboard into a Musical Instrument! Keyano has the ability to turn your PC into a Musical Keyboard, or select Alphabet mode and it becomes fun and educational for the Kids. Type "A B C" and it says them out loud while it shows letters on screen. KTuberling KTuberling is a "potato editor" game intended for small children and adults who remain young at heart. The game has no winner; the only purpose is to make the funniest faces you can. Linux Letters and Numbers Linux Letters and Numbers is based on Larry's Learning Letters and Numbers. This is a Linux replacement, written from scratch, with many improvements. It was built using the GTK (Gimp ToolKit) for X. Mailsnail Guide Snailly around a pitifully small number of levels by placing food. Collect the letters before Esnail and deliver them. Watch out for carnivorous plants and other nasties. MathWar MathWar is a flashcard math game in which the child plays against the computer to solve simple addition, subtraction, and multiplication problems before the computer player answers. mooege mooege is an educational game server emulator written in C#. Multiplication Game Multiplication Puzzle is a simple GTK+ 2 game that emulates the multiplication game found in Emacs. Basically, a multiplication problem is shown with all digits replaced by letters. Your job is to guess which letter represents which number. Multiplication Station Multiplication Station is an application to help memorize multiplication tables through 12x12. The user logs in and faces a blank 12x12 grid. The program gives all the products in random order. When a correct answer is given, the problem is marked "complete" and the corresponding grid cell displays the product (i.e. row * col). Puzzle Maps Puzzle Maps is a software version of the Montessori Puzzle Maps activity. It presents users with a choice of maps in which they can remove and replace the various countries or states that make up the map. In this way, they familiarize themselves with the geography of the world. pybotwar pybotwar is a fun and educational game where players write computer programs to control simulated robots. pysycache PySyCache is an educational program for young children (4-7 years old). Its purpose is to teach them to manipulate the mouse by uncovering a picture with mouse movements. schoolsplay Schoolsplay is a collection of educational activities for children. Schoolsplay resembles the approach taken by the Childsplay and Gcompris projects but is designed to be less like a collection of games. The Linux Memory Game The Linux Memory Game is an X11 game for children ages 3 and up, based on the card game "Memory". It is written using GTK+ library. Although it is a children's game, it has five skill levels, the higher ones are challenging to adults as well. It can also be a very good teaching tool for teaching languages, concepts, or association Tux Typing Tux Typing is an educational typing tutor game starring Tux, the Linux penguin. Read more xletters xletters is an X Windows game under Linux (or other unices) that helps you improve your typing skills as you try to catch falling words by typing them before they reach the ground.