Online Skill games have been around since the first apparition of the internet, but the market for this kind of entertainment did not gain much attention until a few years ago. Millions of internet users surf the net every day, making it the biggest electronic media after the TV. Internet, as we all know, served as a trampoline that launched hundreds online poker sites, online casinos such and sports books, but even when millions of users come to those places every day, there was a huge portion of web surfers that were not interested in involving into any gambling activity, many of those users wanted access to recreational pastimes instead of sports betting or online casino games, and that how the online game communities started to take form. These internet game users also wanted to play against other players and companies rapidly started to launch skill based game sites in the early 2000. The first successful online skill game wave happened in 2000 when the biggest internet search engines including MSN and Yahoo integrated a selection of skill games services into their game platforms, providing the first major distribution for an increasing group of users.

Skill game sites are similar to online poker sites since they way to make money is raking the head-to-head and tournament games, what makes them different from online casinos and other forms of gambling is that the chance to win is determined by the user's skill level. One of the things that helped the expansion of the skill games is that most of the games existed before the invention of the computer and the Internet and millions know the general basics of the games. But even when the traditional games attract a huge percentage of users, the hundreds of new options and arcade games promptly gained a lot of attention. 

 

Skill games like chess, checkers, puzzles, backgammon or checkers are popular games that have been played since many centuries ago, but aside from these millenary games, everyone is familiar with more recent games such as Scrabble, Su Do Ku, Trivia, 3D Tic Tac Toe, etc. There are more games available than ever before, including a nice variety of 80’s arcade games such as Asteroids or Tetris, the good part is that finding an opponent is as easy as turning the computer on.The addition to freely and legally wager on online skill games has also been a huge help in the recent expansion and popularity of these kind of games.

There are several categories of skill games on the net, both online and offline; offering skill games for any player in any and every format imaginable. The skill games categories, based on the type of game and the skills that it requires are the following:

• Arcade games

• Board games

• Puzzle games

• Word games

• Casino skill games

There’s a large list free skill games on the internet as well as games you can play for money, those sites usually feature a nice selection of games, from traditional games of skill like chess, Scrabble, backgammon and hearts to games typically associated with casinos, including poker, video poker, and BlackJack.