It's Christmas Eve, and Santa's having some issues. His shiny new sleigh malfunctioned in midflight, scattering presents far and wide. Your task is to guide Santa as he searches for gifts and delivers them to the correct houses.

InterAction Studios offers Christmas Eve Crisis for free, probably to promote its other games (you must click through a series of ads when you exit the game). It's definitely worth a download, though. Casual games and older children will enjoy its challenges, though it might prove to frustrating for small children.

Note: This update (version 1.06) fixes earlier issues with Windows 7. The game now launches and runs smoothly on that OS.

--Kim Saccio-Kent