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.
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!.
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"... ??