Need help with .htaccess on custom site

I'm looking to simplify my .htaccess a bit, I know there's prob a couple lines I could use instead of rewriting the main pages manually but I can't seem to get it to fully work, the way I got works perfect now, but would like it written the right way, lol.

Current .htaccess

Options -Indexes

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^racecarracinggames.com [nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.racecarracinggames.com/$1 [r=301,nc]
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^index2\.html$ pages/index2.php
RewriteRule ^index3\.html$ pages/index3.php
RewriteRule ^index4\.html$ pages/index4.php
RewriteRule ^links\.html$ pages/links.html
RewriteRule ^links2\.html$ pages/links2.html
RewriteRule ^links3\.html$ pages/links3.html
RewriteRule ^([_A-Za-z0-9-]+).html/?$ play/$1.php

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What I Tried Using, but only worked for half the pages, rest show 404 error

Options -Indexes

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^racecarracinggames.com [nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.racecarracinggames.com/$1 [r=301,nc]
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^([_A-Za-z0-9-]+).html/?$ pages/$1.php
RewriteRule ^([_A-Za-z0-9-]+).html/?$ play/$1.php

Code (markup):

 

Keep it simple: ([^.]+)

 

Can't seem to get anything working using that :S

 

I will pay someone if they can rewrite this to clean it up the best it can.

 

It should scale with index|links 1-N & [L] is used to keep the last few rules from being evaluated when they don't need to be.

Options -Indexes

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^racecarracinggames [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.racecarracinggames.com/$1 [R=301]
RewriteRule ^(index[0-9]*)\.html$ pages/$1.php [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^(links[0-9]*)\.html$ pages/$1.html [L,NC]
RewriteRule ^([_a-z0-9-]+).html/?$ play/$1.php [NC]

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If this works for you shoot me a PM & I'll reply with a Paypal link you can do whatever you want with.

 

That's awesome, that worked great. I PM'd ya.

 

Pleasure doing business with you.