Monday, June 20, 2011

Words deleted from the new British Scrabble dictionary

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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...
Wednesday, June 8, 2011

The new Scrabble words (if you use the British Scrabble dictionary)

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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...

Review of the new version of WordSquared

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The brand new version of Word 2 is now out. It comes with a different design (lots of wood grain and most squares on the board are off-whit...
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...