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Creating your own crossword puzzles has its own uses beyond just playing for fun. You can use it as a part of an interactive entry test to see if candidates have grasped the basics; revise key points of a lecture with a crossword puzzle; use crosswords as a team building exercise; build it into a promotional scheme; and okay…let’s stop here – I am sure you got my point. If you did, let’s turn to a few tools you can use to create crossword puzzles of your own.
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Playing word games can often be a lot of fun, but also have the added bonus of being educational, keeping your mind sharp and improving your vocabulary. Taking these kinds of games with you on the go using your iPhone is a great way to make a long commute seem a little shorter, kill time, or even just wind down and take your mind off other things.
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It need not always be about sharpening your vocabulary; though that helps. Word games can be just fun. And when you introduce competitive game play against others in the digital Wild West of the web, the adrenalin surge is a bit more. No more relaxed word plays on a grid – with Scramble with Friends you have to go against the clock and against your opponents, in an arena that’s a jumbled up grid of words.
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Type in “Jambalaya” in Google Search and you will get a slew of recipes. It is a dish. But when it comes to your iPhone, iPod Touch, or the iPad, it is also a recipe for a fast paced, brain crunching word game. Jambalaya doesn’t pretend to be radically different. I would say that it is an old recipe with a new dash of spices. It is this which gives Jambalaya a new flavor.
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If you're of a certain age you'll be aware of text adventures. These simple games were both fun and frustrating in equal measure, requiring the player to use stock commands to guide the character through the situations encountered, and telling a story in the process. The fun was derived from these games being a kind of interactive fiction, while the frustration emerged when simple commands were misunderstood or ignored.
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Letterpress is a brand new word game that comes to us courtesy of Tweetie creator Atebits. Available as an iOS app, the new word game will likely have you glued to your iPhone screens. Deceptively simple on the surface - both in concept and design - Letterpress is a must-have for anyone who's a fan of word games. Bringing with it elements of Boggle, and the spirit of connect the dots - the game has the potential to be the next big addiction.
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These three Scrabble games are more tools and less games. Also, I think if you love a particular game, you will like to play it in any of its avatars and take any route possible to get better at it. So, let’s look into three desktop Scrabble game tools you can download for free to increase your knowledge of words.
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Scrabble is dangerously close to becoming a generic name for word games with similar gameplay. Even as the dust of copyright infringement and lawsuits settle, there are quite a few varieties of Scrabble-like games on the web. Let’s look at a few multiplayer online Scrabble games which I managed to dig up.
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Don't you just hate it when you're in the middle of a great Words With Friends game and someone manages to luck out with a word like "atropine"? Maybe it's only frustrating when the rest of their words up until that point were elementary level. Either way, cheating sucks. The only thing that sucks more than cheating is wanting to cheat and not knowing how to. Sometimes you've got to fight fire with fire.
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