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wordly websites

Anagram Finder
Not your average anagram finder! ThreePirateDucks have produced a great anagramming tool that allows you to extract a chosen word out of the anagram, then presents subsequent choices remaining. This is much easier than scaning the lists that go on forever.

Avocabo
An original vocabulary series available in downloadable PDF files, featuring wordlists derived from 1) dichotomies (swiftness vs slowness), 2) books and authors (e.g. F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby), and 3) disciplines and careers (economics, politics, visual art, robotics). There is even a self-marking unit!

AWAD - The Wordserver
Anu Garg's web-niche for linguaphiles, offering A.Word.A.Day, anagrams-by-mail, dictionary definitions by mail and much more!  Sign onto Anu's listserver and pay attention -- you never know when I'll test you on his words.

Kaz CartoonsHeadlines Kaz (aka Larry Katzman) is an inventor, a cartoonist and a maker of great acrostic puzzles that feature historical headline solutions. Kaz offers a Headlines puzzle of the week and a guide to solving acrostics. I expect you will also get distracted by Kaz's cartoon humour!.

National Puzzlers' League
Have a look at this well-established Puzzlers' forum.

Puzzle Express
Crossword addicts will enjoy Puzzle Express.  They offer puzzle playing software, puzzles, free monthly puzzles to download and an online crossword and word search. In the near future, they hope to offer puzzles by e-mail. 

Puzzles.com
Puzzles.COM - the world's best resource for puzzling on the Internet - is about Puzzles, Illusions, Tricks, Toys, and everything around all these Great, Funny, Entertaining, Intellectual and Educational Things.

Questique
Questique is a strategy crossword board game. Unique amongst skill based word games, it can be played by adults, families and children. It works like Scrabble, with a maximum of four players placing letters on a board to make interlocking words, but is more complicated in that each player develops his own crossword endeavouring at the same time to cover the stars on the board. The winner is the first to cover any four stars. There are variations which can make the game more difficult. Check it out!

Thinks.com
Wordly-Wise member Mike Curl offers more word game challenges. 

Richard Lederer's Verbivore web site. Word fun and wisdom from America's prolific wordguru. Includes comprehensive word links indices.

Wordles
Young Leonard and the scientists at Wordles have hooked up a variety of word manipulation machines to the Internet to provide cryptogram, word search, and words-within-words searches. Wordly links and word game book links round out the Wordles laboratory. Don't bust any beakers in the lab! And always remember to add vowels to the consonants, never the other way round!

World Wide Words
Are you callipygian? Wordsmith Michael Quinion has compiled a fascinating website--a gallimaufry of interesting words and phrases. Don't head in unless you have time to devote to a callithumpian visit with the English language! Now - what was that word for "the carousing of seamen on board Greenland whaling ships"... ??

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