How to Play Games on Your Samsung Galaxy Tablet

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One of the best ways to put expensive, high-tech gizmos, like your Samsung Galaxy tablet, to work is to play games. Don’t even sweat the thought that you have too much business or work or other important stuff you can do on your Galaxy Note or Galaxy Tab. The more advanced the mind, the more the need for play, right? So indulge yourself.

Lamentably, no sample games ship with your tablet. But don’t worry about that. It is easy to rectify this situation! Having no games preinstalled on your tablet may change in the future, but for now you’re left to hunt down games at the Play Store just like everyone else in the Android Kingdom.

Just to be a tease, let’s look at a game on the Galaxy tablet. It’s one of many, so don’t think this is a must have recommendation or anything, though some people have played Jet Car Stunts on the Galaxy Tab 3 for hours on end.

You can use the Play Games app on the Apps screen. (The Play Games app may be in the Google folder.)
Free or “lite” versions of popular games exist. Before plunking down your hard-earned 99 cents, consider testing the free version.

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Dan Gookin has been writing about technology for 20 years. He has contributed articles to numerous high-tech magazines and written more than 90 books about personal computing technology, many of them accurate.
He combines his love of writing with his interest in technology to create books that are informative and entertaining, but not boring. Having sold more than 14 million titles translated into more than 30 languages, Dan can attest that his method of crafting computer tomes does seem to work.
Perhaps Dan’s most famous title is the original DOS For Dummies, published in 1991. It became the world’s fastest-selling computer book, at one time moving more copies per week than the New York Times number-one best seller (although, because it’s a reference book, it could not be listed on the NYT best seller list). That book spawned the entire line of For Dummies books, which remains a publishing phenomenon to this day.
Dan’s most recent titles include PCs For Dummies, 9th Edition; Buying a Computer For Dummies, 2005 Edition; Troubleshooting Your PC For Dummies; Dan Gookin’s Naked Windows XP; and Dan Gookin’s Naked Office. He publishes a free weekly computer newsletter, “Weekly Wambooli Salad,” and also maintains the vast and helpful Web site www.wambooli.com.