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Headlines
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!.
Routeword
Routeword is the ingenious result of a database
project gone right! Host Andrew Odewahn is a computer entrepreneur
who was trying to display complex data with visual clarity. He applied
his algorithm to words, and voila, Routeword was born. Each daily
puzzle provides a clue to a word that mapped out in a maze-like diagram.
In some puzzles, letters are left blank to increase the difficulty.
It's great fun on the submissions page, exploring the shape of words
like "vicissitudes." Andrew provides several ways to include
the daily Routeword puzzles on your website. My only beef with the
concept is the fact that double letters are ignored in favour of the
simple elegance of the mapping. Routeword is visually and mentally
engaging. Give it a try!
PC
Word Games - Weave Words Find the words, guess
the letters, and solve the phrases in the fun new PC word game, Weave
Words.
Avocabo
An original vocabulary
series available in downloadable PDF files, featuring featuring wordlists
derived from 1) Dichotomous concepts (Swiftness vs Slowness),
2) Specific books and authors (F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great
Gatsby), and 3) Specific disciplines and careers (Economics,
Politics, Visual Art, Robotics) You can sample a Free Avocabo
Vocabulary 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.
Creative
Puzzles
Syzygies puzzles are highlighted
on this Creative Puzzles site in the Netherlands.
Dillon's
Online Vocabulary Tests
Thomas Dillon has produced
a series of challenging vocabulary-enhancing quizzes -- one for each
letter of the alphabet and toughie Master-level quiz of unusual words.
These quizzes are multiple choice and Java-based. Test yourself.
Garfield
Games
At one time, Wordly-Wise puzzles
were a feature of Crossword America's AOL forum. They have now
gone to their own site, where they offer downloadable crosswords (using
their proprietory Lyriq engine), word searches, cryptograms, acrostics
and more. Lots to do! And I am proud to say that this was where I
published my first crossword puzzle!
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. \
Puzzles
Now
Free Online Puzzles - Tons of free online puzzles including free jigsaw
puzzles, free online crossword puzzles and more!
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!
Recreational
Wordplay
Chris Foreman offers two original
word play publications. In one, he wittily twists surnames in word
fun. What does Suddenly Susan star do when confronted by the flash
bulbs of the papparrazzi? Well, Brook SHIELDS her eyes!" Play
double duty surnames and name chains on Chris' site!
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.
Vocabulary Stretching
Games
John Gales has programmed
some great javascript vocab builders in two interactive formats: a
multiple choice ten-item quiz and a match the columns challenger.
Word
Prospector
Word Prospector is a variation
on the popular "word mine" them. That is, you get a 10-letter
word and you use those letters to extract 4-, 5-, and 6-letter words.
Each Word Prospector game is a week-long tournament, and the program
keeps track of everyone's score so you can match wits with other word
hounds.
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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