Sunday, December 15, 2013
The amazing ENABLE word-list project
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While looking for a good word list to use for a project that I am working on, I discovered ENABLE (which stands for Enhanced North American ...
Monday, November 4, 2013
A sesquipedalianist Boggle puzzle
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During my analysis of the effects of playing Boggle with different letter distributions , I simulated more than 50,000 games of standard 4-b...
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...
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