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A free online game, 3210 Blast Off is designed to teach players about the importance of healthy eating and daily physical activity. Players navigate through a galaxy that can only be saved by completing challenges that test their knowledge of how to maintain a healthy lifestyle and improve unhealthy habits.

A learning and training game, 3D Reseaux teaches civil engineers and construction workers about the risks of working near underground networks. It provides tips for protecting the safety of people and property.

"4 TRAVELLERS can be played alone or together with friends and at the same time teach you new words in Spanish. The game is suitable for both young and old, and no previous knowledge is necessary. The more you play the more your Spanish vocabulary increases. You can also play and learn with the mini-games’ unique learning mode. The game is perfect to bring on your trip, and over 240 carefully selected words are included specifically for this occasion."

9th Inning is a free, online, baseball-themed quiz game designed to test players’ knowledge and understanding of nutrition. Each correct answer earns a homerun. Watch out because answering three questions wrong means you’re out!

In this Nintendo Wii exergame, players move their upper and lower bodies by using the Wii remote and a game mat. This game involves more than a dozen fast-paced activities, such as log jumping, river rafting, and a minecart adventure.

This game for children focuses on nutrition and healthy eating habits, such as the importance of choosing fruits and vegetables and consistently eating healthy meals. It is mentioned in published research but there is no information about how to obtain the game.

“The game follows our character, Richard, in his dream world where he goes on the offensive and attacks back! He wards off a variety of allergens from pollen and pet dander to shellfish and dairy.”

In the children’s game American Horsepower Challenge , players create a horse avatar online and then place a pedometer on their own shoe to keep track of the number of steps they take throughout the day. Players are ranked according to the number of steps they take.

 This free quiz game developed by the Environmental Protection Agency tests players’ knowledge of air quality and pollution and their effects on health. Questions are multiple choice.

Aspire is a free online resource designed to educate players, both smokers and non-smokers, about smoking cigarettes. After determining how players feel about smoking, the site displays a page of information and games about the risks and dangers of cigarette smoking.

At- Risk is a training game designed to help faculty and staff identify and approach students that appear to be experiencing mental distress. Through simulated conversations within the game, players interact with virtual students dealing with suicidal thoughts, depression, anxiety, and symptoms of paranoia.

This free online simulation game takes place in a Haitian town and challenges players to keep a family of five as healthy, happy, and well educated as possible, given the limited resources available. New unexpected events occasionally arise that affect the family’s well being and require the player to devise new strategies to keep everyone thriving, if possible. Players are successful if family members survive, are well fed, and achieve a high level of education.

This PC-based training game provides basketball techniques and tips that players can take to the court. It is available for purchase.

In this free online grocery shopping and nutrition game, players search for items on a grocery list and compare the labels of three different brands each time, to make the healthiest choice.

This 1993 text-based quiz game tests players’ knowledge of alcohol-related trivia. If a player misses a question, their character must take a drink and then becomes more inebriated. The more inebriated the character, the more difficult it becomes to read the text, which is increasingly interspersed with random garbled items as more drinks are consumed. Eventually it becomes impossible to get any answers right, and so the character finally passes out.

Designed by young cancer patient Ben Duskin and LucasArts employee Eric Johnston, and funded by a grant from the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Ben’s Game helps cancer patients cope with their illness and relieves some of the pain and stress associated with cancer treatments. Players navigate through the body’s organs and destroy all the cancer cells in order to collect seven shields that serve as protection against seven side effects of chemotherapy: colds, barf, chicken pox, fever, bleeding, hair loss, and rash.

Big Brain Academy is a brain-training puzzle game that provides cognitive challenges in five categories: think, analyze, memorize, compute, and identify. Players achieve their "brain weight" and discover their areas of strength and weakness. “Brain weight” increases as players complete the activities faster.

This role playing game for biohazard response training was developed at Carnegie Mellon University and MIT. Players work collaboratively with others online in the role of first responders to a chemical attack. Through scenario-based and role-play learning, players learn various protocols and the concepts behind them, how to control crowds and deliver decontamination treatments, how to manage resources efficiently, and how to think creatively when resources are limited.

This game is designed to improve players’ attention and sharpen their ability to process visual information. While it starts out easy, the game gets progressively more challenging as players improve.