When playing Bananagrams, 2-letter words are great for rapidly adding letters to a grid, like when you are running off a string of "PEE...

Since this year's PAX East Omegathon paired up players into teams, the Bananagrams round was played in doubles mode. The picture below (...

Since Appletters involves building a zigzagging snake-like line of words, where new words can only be built off the beginning or end of the...

When we are standing up, gravity pulls blood down which is detected by "baroreceptors" in the circulatory system. The circulatory ...

Through playing many, many games of Bananagrams, I have learned a few lessons about how to approach the game: Concentrate on making words ou...

Since making palindromes earns players bonus points in the Applescore game (as described in this previous post on Appletters), I've com...

This is the natural complement to the post about what to do when you have too many consonants . As mentioned before, if you dump one of your...

Pangrams are sentences that use every letter in the alphabet at least once. Just a few examples: Nth quark biz gyps cwm fjeld vox. ( which s...

My one concession to the Scrabble-memorizer approach is to know some of the Q-without-U words, as they are so useful in Bananagrams. Also, ...