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Mr. Runner X just wants to run… but a falling ceiling keeps getting in his way! Take control of Mr. Runner X, speeding him up and slowing him down as the ceiling drops, finding gaps to hide in and avoiding getting crushed. You have just three tries to make it to the end – can you collect all the coins at the end of the level?

Cooking Live automatically saves your progress, so you can leave the game and return without having to start over. However, you might notice that your progress doesn’t seem to be saving. If that’s the case, keep this in mind:   Cooking Live saves your progress within the browser you use. Be sure to continue using the same browser on the same device each time you launch the game. If you do, you’ll be able to pick up where you left off. However, if you use a different device, browser, or open the game in incognito mode, your game progress may be reset. If you have “Do Not Track” options enabled in your browser, your game progress may not be saved. You can check your browser’s privacy settings to see if this feature is enabled.   As long as you play Cooking Live on the same browser on the same device, your progress should be saved after each session!

In Cooking Live, there is one way to stay ahead of the steady stream of customer orders: always work ahead. If you receive an order of eggs and only then throw some eggs into the pan, you’ll run out of space and time too quickly.   It’s important to be as ready as you can be before each order. For the first group of levels, that means:   Always having eggs ready to go on your plates, and no additional eggs cooking while your plates are full (there’s no penalty for eggs sitting out!) Always having a muffin ready to serve (once you unlock the oven) Starting to cook something as soon as there’s space for it at your serving station (serve some eggs? Cook more eggs!)   This way, when you need to deal with multiple orders at once, all you have to do is click on the item to serve it – or just add some tomatoes and toast to the ready-to-serve eggs.   Don’t forget to upgrade your equipment from the “Upgrades” tab at the bottom left of the main screen, using the coins and r

Once you beat a certain number of levels in Cooking Live, one of three boosters will become available to you. Eventually, you’ll have access to all three. At the beginning of each level, you can choose one to use:   Pan: Grants you a “shield” that prevents your eggs from burning if they sit in the pan. Coins: Gives you extra coins for completing orders. Chef’s Hat: Your cooking and food preparation occurs instantly.   Sometimes you’ll be presented with a “hard level” – the game will tell you if the next level will be extra tough when you have the option to choose a booster. That’s a great time to use one!

When the customers keep coming, do you have what it takes to cook all their favorite food? In Cooking Live, play dozens of levels where you’ll need to balance different dishes while customers make more and more requests!   Each dish in Cooking Live takes time to prepare. While you can make anything with a click, organizing all your food for your customers is another challenge entirely. Serve up eggs, juice, muffins, and much more – and use your boosters to help in a pinch!

In Word Clash, you’re matched up with another real person in a game of unscrambling letters, searching for the longest words. You and your opponent take turns and get more points for longer words. So the goal is to put together as many long words as possible.   But there are a few additional tips that you can use to get ahead:   Look for plurals and participles. If you find a word like “phone,” before you place your guess, check the wheel of letters for letters like “s” and “d.” “Phones” and “phoned” will get you extra points! Additionally, do the same when your opponent plays a word like “phone” – there might be additional forms of the word that you can use before they do. Be mindful of choosing letters without confirming them. Absentmindedly connecting letters to see if any words come to mind might help you, but it might help your opponent too. They can see what you’re doing when you click letters, and your clicking might reveal potential words to them. Try to work out wor

In Word Clash, you take turns against an opponent to unscramble a circle of seven letters, searching for the longest possible words. If you want to win, you need to look for words that are five, six, or even seven letters long. You get more game points for longer words, and whoever has the highest point value when the guessing is complete wins.   Here is how many game points you get for each word:   3 letters – 3 game points 4 letters – 5 game points 5 letters – 7 game points 6 letters – 9 game points 7 letters – 12 points   It’s worth spending extra time looking for the seven-letter words before settling for a shorter one. However, you only get 25 seconds to select your word, so think fast!

It’s multiplayer madness! In Word Clash, unscramble the letters to create the longest words you can and get more points than your opponent, who is trying to do the same exact thing. Race against the clock, use your power ups, and do your best to come out on top – this exciting new word game will keep you on your toes!

  Are you willing to press your luck with… Press Your Luck?   Play the beloved slot machine game that generations of TV viewers know from the 1980s (and today) – but, no matter what you do, watch out for Whammys! Hit the big red button and try to win as much cash as possible. Get three Press Your Lucks while playing the slots to enter into a mini-game that’ll let you win big!   Interested in more retro game show games? Check out Deal or No Deal and Card Sharks, both brand new to AARP Games!

What is Press Your Luck? Press Your Luck is a version of the famous retro game show game that will have you spinning slots and playing mini games, all in the pursuit of more prize money. But watch out for Whammys!   What are Whammys? Whammys are the red aliens/monsters who steal all your winnings. If you have a lot of money in the bank, be extra careful, or you might lose it all!   When does the game end? Press Your Luck ends when you decide to end the game. While you could play the slots forever, building up your prize pool and losing it to a Whammy, you could also click “Cash Out” at any point in the regular game to end it. The money you have at that point will be your final score!   How do I play? Gameplay in Press Your Luck is very simple. Just click the big red button to spin the slots. The spin will end on its own and your winnings will be added to your total. Click the red button again to spin again!   Is there anything besides spinning the slot machine? Yes

In Press Your Luck, all you have to do to play is hit the big red button to activate the slot machine. You can make some in-game money by getting good spins, but there is one method to grow your money way beyond simple slots: the mini-game!   If you spin three Press Your Luck icons anywhere on the board, you’ll enter the mini-game. The gameplay is similar – just press the red button to start the spin, and press it again to end the spin. In the mini-game, though, each spin lands on one value, and you get that value added to your total. Look out for squares like “vacation,” which have big payouts – but, as always, watch out for Whammys!   In the mini-game, each Whammy will reset your money total within the mini-game to $0. If you get four Whammys you’ll be removed from the mini-game entirely. At any point, you can click Pass to end the mini-game, bank your money, and continue playing the regular game.

In Card Sharks, there is a finite number of survey questions that will be asked before Sudden Death mode begins. Ideally, you will be able to complete your row of cards before it’s time for Sudden Death, but if both you and your opponent are unable to do it, you’ll need to prepare for a no-holds barred final round!   After the final survey question, the winner of that question can choose to “play” or “pass.” One player will end up with a single goal: to clear their row without making a mistake. If they do, they win. But if they don’t, their opponent wins the whole game.   If you win the survey question and can choose to “play” or “pass,” it’s important to think strategically. How many cards do you have left to clear? How many does your opponent have? What card is face-up for you and your opponent, and would that make their first choice easier or harder?   Either way, it’s an intense finish to a very fun and competitive game. Good luck!

In Card Sharks, after answering the survey question, you’ll head to the card table. If your opponent won the survey round, they control the cards, but you control them if you won the survey round. You’ll have seven face-down cards in front of you. One will flip over. Then, you get to choose if the next one is higher or lower.   What do you choose?   There are some straightforward strategies. If the card is very obviously on the low or high end, you can feel safe going in the other direction. For instance, it’s safe to guess higher if you’re looking at a 2, 3, or 4. However, things get more complicated in the middle. If you have a card between 6 and 9 – but especially 7 and 8 – it’s important to take stock of the overall situation. Keep in mind that if you guess wrong, you’ll lose all the cards you’ve guessed correctly in this run. So if you’ve guessed several cards correctly, it’s probably better to freeze a 7 or 8, end the turn, and come back next round when you have less to

From your living room in the ‘70s and ‘80s to your computer, phone, and tablet today… Card Sharks is here! Match up against a random appointment and answer survey questions. Then, head to the table to take control of the cards, guessing if your next card will be higher or lower than the last one. Make it through all your cards before your opponent does to take home the grand prize!   Interested in more retro game show games? Check out Deal or No Deal and Press Your Luck, both brand new to AARP Games!

In Element Blocks, the goal is simple: place blocks on your grid and in such a way that you can remove lines and not overcrowd the board. As you successfully remove lines, you’ll score points. You can find your score at the top of the screen. Every time you place a block or clear a line, you’ll get points. However, there are a few things to keep in mind when playing:   The more lines you clear simultaneously, the more points you get. This can be dangerous, as if you run out of moves you’ll get a game over, but if you have a way to clear two, three, or more lines at once, try to do it! The more points you get, the higher your score multiplier goes. Your score multiplier can be found to the left of your score. It goes up whenever you place a block or clear a line. But if you clear multiple lines at once, it’ll jump up much farther. If you want to increase your multiplier, go for big plays! Your high score can be found underneath your game score, next to a crown icon.   Good l

In Element Blocks, you have access to two power ups, and both are perfect for getting you out of a tight spot when your grid starts become overcrowded. They are:   Dynamite – Removes any blocks in a 3x3 area of your choice Lightning – Clears all blocks of one chosen color   However, these power ups don’t come easy. You’ll need to buy them from the bottom-right corner of your screen – but in order to do that, you’ll need to collect stars. The main way to get stars is simply to keep playing the game. Every once in a while, a block on your grid will be covered with a star. If you clear the row that the block is in, you’ll get the star!   Dynamite costs 15 stars to purchase, and lighting costs 25 stars, but they become more expensive with each use. You can only hold one of each power up at once.

Sit back, relax, and keep clearing the grid! Element Blocks is a nature-inspired puzzler that can go on forever – as long as you have the skills to keep the board clear. Place geometric blocks around the grid with the goal of clearing lines. Collect stars to buy power ups that help you keep the grid clear. And most importantly, have fun!

2 Minute Mini Crossword is designed to be easier than the regular Mini Crossword, so it’s perfect to play if you want a quick crossword fix. Because of this, there are some clues that the game avoids. Most answers will be single, uncapitalized words – but keep an eye out for the “2 wds” and “Hyph” messages that end some clues and denote that the answers are two words or hyphenated, respectively.   Keep in mind that there’s no penalty for taking longer than 2 minutes to solve the crossword!

  Love this game!   I have had several high scores in the past few days.  They record correctly to my account, but not to the leader board.  How do I fix that?  I saw the "submit" option in the upper left hamburger menu, but that causes an exit from the game in process.  I use Chrome on my computers.  Thank you in advance.  

How does scoring work in 2 Minute Mini Crossword? When you complete a game of 2 Minute Mini Crossword, you’ll receive a score based on the time it took you to finish the puzzle – the faster you finish, the higher your score! (Don’t forget to play the daily game, which gives a point bonus.) However, your score isn’t refreshed each day. In fact, scores are only reset every month, so the more games you play, the higher your overall score will be – and you’ll need to come back each day to get onto the leaderboard!

Why are my scores not recording?

You can make your game easier by using the Check button at the top of the screen to see if your highlighted letter, word, or entire puzzle is correct. You can also toggle Autocheck on this menu to get instant feedback if you filled in a box incorrectly. Additionally, you can click:   Reveal, to reveal an individual letter, a word, or the entire puzzle – whatever you currently have highlighted. Pencil, to draw in your letters. Print, to print the puzzle and fill it out with pen!   On the top left of the screen, you’ll see the settings menu, which looks like three stacked horizontal lines. Click this to access:   Show timer, which you can toggle on and off Arrow keys change direction, which you can toggle on and off Skip over filled squares, which you can toggle on and off Skip to next word, which you can toggle on and off Increase clue size, which you can toggle on and off Display clues as a list, which you can toggle on and off Sound, which you can toggle on and off C

Need a quick crossword fix? Play 2 Minute Mini Crossword at AARP, a daily crossword game that is designed for fast play. Solve an easy crossword that has just 10 clues. Turn off the timer, skip over filled squares, turn off the sounds… how you play is up to you. It’s the perfect game while you’re on the go or taking a quick break!

Calling all wordsmiths: Categories, the new AARP word-matching game, is now available to play! Put your brain to work with a 3x3, 4x4, or 5x5 grid of words – match all the words that fit neatly together to remove them from the grid, and you win once all the categories have been found! Can you make the connections? Play three new games every single day or head into the archive for hundreds more puzzles.  Play here - https://games.aarp.org/games/categories

While exploring – or after solving a puzzle – you might be presented with an item like a knife, screwdriver, or piece of paper with a clue for another puzzle. Click on the item and it will move to your inventory on the right side of the screen. Click an item in your inventory to select it. From there, you can do two things:   Click “Inspect Item” at the bottom of your inventory to get a closer look. This is helpful for some items that have small text. Click on an item in the room, and if the item in your inventory can interact with it, it will. (For instance, if you’ve selected a screwdriver that you have in your inventory and then click on a light switch, the light switch plate may be removed. Perhaps there’s another clue or item inside!)   In some cases, you can even combine items together! To see if it works, select an item in your inventory and inspect it. Select the other item and then click the inspected item.   Don’t forget to select items in your inventory and