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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Fun with collective nouns

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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...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

A review of the word-tree building game Konexi

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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...
Friday, November 16, 2012

My addiction to, and subsequent recovery from, Drawception

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In my last post, I explained the wonderful sentence-illustrating, drawing-captioning game of Picture Telephone . In the wake of the recent b...
Monday, August 27, 2012

The irresistible game of Picture Telephone

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One of my favorite games is Picture Telephone. Like the children's game of Telephone (in which a message is whispered from one player to...
Friday, May 18, 2012

The power of recursive drawing

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An MIT student has released a simple CoffeeScript/JavaScript-based tool for creating recursive drawings - combinations of rectangles and ell...
Friday, May 11, 2012

Lexcavator: A cool word-exploding arcade game

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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...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

How good are competitive Scrabble players at recognizing words?

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Researchers from the University of Calgary recently published a study (available in PDF or HTML ) on how being an elite player in Scrabble ...
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