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...

I previously posted about how intrigued I was about a new game that involved assembling letters into a precarious tree of words. Now, I have...

A great new arcade-like word game has just been released for desktop computers. It's called Lexcavator, a name that evokes the idea of d...

As an addendum to my review of the online Guess My Word game, I'm reviewing the iPhone companion game, Lexicographer. Just as with Guess...

Important notice: This post is about an online game that no longer exists at the linked URL, but you can find the same game (now maintained...

I recently played a game called Disorder, which is a neat little word-building (or more accurately, word-avoiding) game. To explain it, it...

First they brought us Bananagrams. Last year they introduced Appletters and Pairs in Pears. This fall, they released so many new items that ...

One new game that caught my eye is called Konexi . It has the word formation aspect of Boggle and the balancing act aspect of Jenga. But ins...

Last year, a cool new technology from the MIT Media Lab called "Siftables" was demonstrated in a TED Talk. It consists of little c...

If you travelled back in time to the 2010 ARGfest in Atlanta (a conference for Alternate Reality Game designers and fans), you could have pl...

I've spent some time trying to think of a way to make a three-dimensional word grid for Scrabble or Bananagrams purposes. (The added cha...

The makers of Bananagrams unveiled their latest creations at the American International Toy Fair this month. Zip-It is a two player game i...

I once played a game called LinguiSHTIK in a competitive situation. The other players were clearly veterans, and I was the rookie. They must...

I recently ran across the strangest official Scrabble mutation that I have ever seen: "Scrabble Me" It looks like, in addition to ...

In addition to his anagramming prowess and his wonderfully surreal and whimsical stories, Lewis Carroll is known for creating numerous games...

Now that the new Pairs in Pears game is available, some new information has surfaced. The tiles come in four designs: solid, outline, lines ...

The online version of the Toy Directory trade magazine reports that Appletters (one of the new games from the makers of Bananagrams, previo...

I recently learned a great game that can be played with the Bananagrams tiles. It is currently sold under the name " Snatch ", but...

The makers of Scrabble have released a game that is packaged as a bunch of tiles in a fabric piece of fruit: Scrabble Apple. (I like to call...