word games
Be Part of the Studio Audience for A New Quiz Show!
SBS is about to launch a smart and entertaining new quiz show called Letters and Numbers, and you are invited to be part of the studio audience!
It is an Australian version of the internationally successful program, Des chiffres et des lettres or Countdown as it’s known in the UK.
The show will air daily from [...]
Word Game – Word Vine
I found a game today, called Word Vine. It is deceptively simple looking and the first few stages are quite easy. After a little while. though, the game becomes harder than you imagine it could be.
Word Vine is a game that involved matching words with a common root word. For example ‘nut’ could be the [...]
Free Puzzles
We have added some new puzzles to our free puzzle section. That should keep you busy for a little while. We have crosswords and codewords of all sorts there, including some for the kids.
My favourite puzzle at the moment is our wordfind with a summer theme – Down At The Beach Wordfind. As you can [...]
Christmas Word Search.
A nice, easy word play for kids. Have fun tracking the words. Good luck.
CHRISTMAS WORDS word search game » word search generator
Jugglets – word puzzles
Jugglets are a form of word puzzle. You must rearrange the letters in each word to find the solution. Once each word is solved, take the first letter of each of those words and rearrange them to find the answer to a clue.
The puzzles can be simple or quite complex. It you love anagrams you [...]
A Rhyming Word Puzzle
I found this fun but challenging puzzle over at Hub Pages “A Rhyming Word Puzzle”. It looks simple but it certainly makes you think. I thought you might enjoy pitting your wits against the puzzle. One hint – the puzzle is from the US so it uses some US colloquialisms but they are well known [...]
Children’s Puzzles with Freddo
Children love to keep their minds busy. In fact, they can be hard to stop especially at bedtime.
Freddo, that tasty chocolate frog, has a new website full of puzzles for your kids to play. It is a clever site that builds interactive puzzles into a game. Your child will be playing an adventure game but [...]
How To Win At Scrabble
How To Win At Scrabble Without A Dictionary Under the Table
By Anthony Chatfield
The ideal nerd evening at some point must involve a ribald game of Scrabble. This, the most quintessential of all the word creation, crossword related games of the world, is one of those experiences that if done correctly always makes you feel smarter [...]
Visual Tricks
Can you read this out loud?
Now think about what you said. Did you say “A bird in the bush”? You would be wrong. Go back and read it again. The brain automatically eliminates the repeated word because it does not make sense.
Tricky?
What is similar in these words?
I received an email this week and it posed me a puzzle. See if you can figure out what is common between these words.
1. Banana
2. Dresser
3. Grammar
4. Potato
5. Revive
6. Uneven
7. Assess
Keep looking. If you think you know leave the answer in a comment. I will [...]
