Two types of casual games on Mac OS X I like are hidden object (Mystery Files) and time management (Diner Dash). However, hidden object games have one huge flaw in my eyes. Some are 800x600 and too small to play without putting your eyes inches from the screen. Going full screen doesn't solve the problem as some stretch out of propotion to fill the screen and the objects already very well hidden are even harder to find. So these ones I recommend are all 1024x768 screen resolution. Thus there aren't 50 or 500 recommendations. I tried out every single Big Fish Mac games (August 2008) and most were 800x600. Note the time management games are 800x600 but look decent at full screen.

Compare stretched (objects distorted) , 800x600 (too small) and 1024x768 (best above all the rest)

Also these casual mac games are all $7/each and all from Big Fish Games. All games have full demo for 60 minutes. Hope that clears it up.

Bigfishgames Japan has also opened website September 2008 in Japan but right now only PC games no Mac. . They had it open in 2006 for just a brief time with only 3 games and shut it down. I'm pretty much done buying new ones as of March 2009 as I've pretty much switched over to iphone as gaming platform of choice.

Can You See What I See? Dream Machine
Released February 18, 2009
Love how you can right click and it'll zoom in on each of 4 sections of screen with no distortion. Great 3D artwork. Screenshot is zoomed in so showing you only 1/4 of the image.

Veronica Rivers: Portals to the Unknown
Released February 11, 2009

National Geographic presents: Herod's Lost Tomb
Released November 13, 2008

Mystery Chronicles - Murder Among Friends
Released September 18, 2008

James Patterson's Women's Murder Club: Death in Scarlet
Released July 22, 2008

Blood Ties
Released July 7, 2008

Agatha Christie: Peril at End House
Released May 16, 2008
You can skip any mini puzzles that you deem to hard. That's a bonus for me.

G.H.O.S.T. Hunters: The Haunting of Majesty Manor
Released September 5, 2007
This is oldest game on this page and suprisingly 1024x768...a pioneer hidden object game for sure.

Fix-it-Up: Kate's Adventure (1024x768)
Released February 2, 2009

DQ Tycoon (1024x768)
Released Jan 27, 2009
Despite having a commercial tie-in this one is actually pretty good and fun.

Build-a-lot (1024x768)
Released July 30, 2008

Fitness Frenzy
Released July 9, 2008

Wedding Dash 2: Rings around the World
Released July 2, 2008

Updated Jan 2010

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