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Thursday, October 17, 2013

The Boggle cube redesign and its effect on the difficulty of Boggle

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I wanted to buy a copy of Boggle. This seemingly simple mission was complicated by the facts that a) there are different kinds of Boggle out...
Sunday, September 15, 2013

The most difficult Bananagrams challenge I've encountered

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Recently, I played a few rounds of Bananagrams. At the beginning of the last game, I flipped over my tiles and only had three vowels. As I c...
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...
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Efficiency freak: Refers to himself in the third person. Often drops the subject of the sentence. Only reads the first half of palindromes.
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