I sent this 3D Tetris-like game to my mathematician friend. He replied with this joke: What’s non-orientable and lives in the sea? Mobius Dick.

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This neat little side-scrolling game is remarkable primarily for its awesome, hand-drawn look. Using the mouse, you maneuver the little fuzzy creature to collect coins — simple enough, but you can’t move backwards, wherein lies the challenge.

Cubed is a fun little game where you strategically manipulate various cubes to capture a flag posted on each level. It gets hard, don’t let the first couple levels fool you.

Do people still play miniature golf? We’ve got so many gizmos and gadgets to distract us in our own homes these days, it’s a wonder anyone still pays money to hit a ball into a fiberglass clown’s mouth. While Mini-Putt doesn’t have the colorful and often surreal obstacles that make put-put so absurd, it does satisfy the urge to hit balls into holes and it preserves at least some vestige of a cultural phenomenon soon to go the way of drive-in cinemas.

Woah, we’ve gotten to the postmodern phase of flash game history where social commentary, appropriation of ironic DIY style, and surrealist absurdity are the order of the day. That said, Jason Nelson’s i made this. you play this. we are enemies. is pretty fun, if you manage to see through the frenetic aesthetic to figure out what’s going on.

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Let’s see if the man is such a lame duck after all. Check out the league table below the game – it would seem even his own people aren’t altogether happy with him (well, duh). I’m averaging 13, and every hit is providing a nice little pick-me-up for the end of the week.

Auditorium is a vector-based puzzle game where the player uses circular pieces to bend or warp a stream of particles so that they flow into various goals on the screen. Each goal plays a line of music, and when all goals on the screen are activated, they create a sort of symphony. The creators intentionally omitted instructions so that the player can more fully interact with the game, creating his or her own individual experience in the process. An iPhone version is likely in the near future.

Amorphous is yet another addictive game that satisfies the same urge that drives us to compulsively pop bubble wrap. The game is simple: destroy a bunch of green blobs with your mighty sword before they envelop you.

Nanotube is a deceptively simple game in which you use the left and right arrow keys to control a circular wall to block escaping balls emanating from the center. As the game progresses, you have to match the different colored parts of the wall with the colors of the balls. [play also Submarine Zero: Ancient Adventure]

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Here’s another addictive Flash game that combines Tetris with the primal urge to burst bubbles. Scratch that itch, we know you want to. [see also a real life version of Tetris] [more about Bubble Breaker]

Yes, we’d like to believe we’re all adults, but sometimes, after a few beers, it’s fun to play a game of Who’d You Rather? The people at Liquid Generation have created an online version so you can compare your results with everyone else. I can’t believe more people would rather have sexual relations with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles than the Ghostbusters. Do Ninja Turtles even have genitals? [when you've finished with this game, shoot a kitten out of a cannon. We know you want to]