Friday, September 24, 2010

Scramble: Part word game, part scavenger hunt, part Easter egg hunt

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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...
Saturday, September 4, 2010

Defensive strategies for Appletters

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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...
Sunday, August 22, 2010

Scrabble reformers: Donald Sauter and the Dover Scrabble Club

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In contrast with the Scrabble reform proposed by Peter Roizen (see the previous post on WildWords ), Donald Sauter's complaints are more...
Sunday, August 8, 2010

Synchronized Bananagramming and other ways to play Bananagrams

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In thinking about games of Bananagrams I have played, I've realized that the amount of time it takes me to finish a grid can depend heav...
Sunday, July 18, 2010

Dixit Review

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My new favorite game is Dixit . It is this cool game, originally from France, in which everyone has a hand of cards with fanciful illustrati...
Sunday, July 4, 2010

Stupid Bananagrams tricks: Word grid with mirror symmetry

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I thought it would be an interesting challenge to try to make a perfectly symmetric Bananagrams word grid using all 144 Bananagrams tiles. I...
Sunday, June 27, 2010

Banana Flambe - A tribute to Abe

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Among the tributes to the memory of Bananagrams creator Abraham Nathanson is this wonderful story about how he was once approached to colla...