Saturday, February 14, 2015
A. A. Milne on playing games
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If you've ever hosted or attend a board games party, you might enjoy this essay by A. A. Milne about playing parlor games on a rainy day...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
More reasons that your dictionary is inadequate
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James Somers, writer of many fine stimulating blog posts and a nice recent profile of Douglas Hofstadter (titled " The Man Who Would Te...
Sunday, December 15, 2013
The amazing ENABLE word-list project
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While looking for a good word list to use for a project that I am working on, I discovered ENABLE (which stands for Enhanced North American ...
Monday, November 4, 2013
A sesquipedalianist Boggle puzzle
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During my analysis of the effects of playing Boggle with different letter distributions , I simulated more than 50,000 games of standard 4-b...
Thursday, October 17, 2013
The Boggle cube redesign and its effect on the difficulty of Boggle
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I wanted to buy a copy of Boggle. This seemingly simple mission was complicated by the facts that a) there are different kinds of Boggle out...
Sunday, September 15, 2013
The most difficult Bananagrams challenge I've encountered
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Recently, I played a few rounds of Bananagrams. At the beginning of the last game, I flipped over my tiles and only had three vowels. As I c...
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Fun with collective nouns
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In England in the Middle Ages, the common practice of hunting led people to coin terms for groups of animals that were specific to each sort...
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