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 ...

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...

While cleaning out my closet, I came across The Deeper Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd. The preface to the original, unexpa...

* Impossible objects are drawings of apparently three-dimensional objects which look correct when their individual parts are examined, but ...

Some words are long and others are short. What determines how long a particular word should be? If you look at some long words (like "s...

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...

One point in favor of the British approach to Scrabble dictionaries is that they appear to actually delete words from the list once they sto...

A couple of people asked for my opinion on the "new Scrabble words", so I looked them over. The first and most important thing to...

So I was playing Word 2 , and I had a rack of A R T T U _ _ and a desire to build down from the word LEND. Reflexively, I spelled DART and w...

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...

Over on the WordSquared blog, WordSquarers are pondering what should be a legal word in a word game. In particular, they are asking whether ...

In my search for the longest word that you can make in a Bananagrams game , I found a few words (like "floccinaucinihilipilification...

How long can a word constructed from the tiles in a Bananagrams set be? I decided to find out. "Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoco...

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...

A recent article on the Wall Street Journal site discussed the effect of adding new words to the list of legal Scrabble words . The controve...

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, ...