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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!.

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.

PC Word Games - 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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