Monday, May 9, 2011

Shady Characters: essays for punctuation lovers

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There is a famous quote attributed to physicist John Wheeler: Time is what prevents everything from happening at once... Space is what pre...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Innergrams and what they can tell us about word favoritism

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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...
Sunday, April 10, 2011

Lexicographer: the iPhone version of Guess My Word

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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...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

Videos of the Omegathon Bananagrams tournament

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A couple of short videos from the Bananagrams round of PAX East 2011 Omegathon have shown up on YouTube. As I understand it, there were 24...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Guess My Word - a fun word-guessing game

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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...
Monday, March 14, 2011

Follow-up on Bananagrams at PAX East 2011 and Bananagrams doubles

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Since this year's PAX East Omegathon paired up players into teams, the Bananagrams round was played in doubles mode. The picture below (...
Saturday, March 5, 2011

Bananagrams to be an event at the PAX East 2011 Omegathon

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PAX (Penny Arcade Expo) is a semi-annual convention for fans of video games that also includes a few sessions about role-playing games, inte...