Who hasn't played a good casual game? You find yourself sitting in front of your computer at the office, nothing really pressing to get to, so you head to a website, fire up a puzzle or arcade game, and blow a few minutes till something better comes around. Though we've known for some time a lot of people partake in these casual games, we never really knew any hard numbers...until now. There are many women statistics in the report.

From the article:

44% of women included “stress relief” among their choices, compared to 33% of men. In addition 17% of women chose “entertainment” as a reason for playing compared to 24% of men.

88% of players indicated they experienced stress relief from playing casual games and 74% cited mental exercise as a benefit; when asked to choose the most important reasons for playing, 41% picked “stress relief/relaxation,” more than twice the number (19%) who chose “entertainment”

Read the full article over at suttree.com