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Title Author Type Date Words
Riddles. Feb 23, 2013 138
Brain play. Feb 23, 2013 298
A puzzle-game for "brains". Brief article Feb 1, 2013 240
Cleo's secret blog. Croxford, Rowena Brief article Dec 28, 2012 272
Mapping mercator. Quader, Walt Brief article Nov 1, 2012 588
Eggshells--1. Kakan, Steve Brief article Nov 1, 2012 437
Crash. Silverman, David L. Brief article Nov 1, 2012 241
For Mathemagicians. Silverman, David L. Brief article Nov 1, 2012 261
The last shall be first department. Silverman, David L. Brief article Nov 1, 2012 120
Minipuzzles. Silverman, David L. Brief article Nov 1, 2012 149
Lewisites and Lewisisms. Silverman, David L. Brief article Nov 1, 2012 310
What's the question? Silverman, David L. Brief article Nov 1, 2012 115
The last word. Silverman, David L. Nov 1, 2012 562
Punk whiz 20. Nov 1, 2012 764
Colloquy. Column Nov 1, 2012 847
Wacky words and Steiner systems. Norton, Simon Nov 1, 2012 2885
When the name and the game are the same. Lederer, Richard Nov 1, 2012 607
Ghost. Silverman, David L. Nov 1, 2012 575
Mathematicalimerick. Silverman, David L. Brief article Nov 1, 2012 174
Point of view. Silverman, David L. Brief article Nov 1, 2012 293
Too many definitions. Silverman, David L. Brief article Nov 1, 2012 306
Homophones. Silverman, David L. Brief article Nov 1, 2012 206
Romney mocks Obama for playing 'silly word games'. Oct 20, 2012 156
Robot word crunch. Harrington, Edna Aug 21, 2012 133
Scrabble plus Rubik's cube equals Scruble. Brief article Jul 1, 2012 339
Spanning the globe with the scrabble[R] tiles. May 1, 2012 1879
An Alice puzzle. May 1, 2012 690
Tripartite numerical tautonyms. May 1, 2012 1993
Some new results on king- and queen-graphable words. May 1, 2012 4303
Missing in March. Schiff, Jacqueline Mar 1, 2012 168
Colloquy. Feb 1, 2012 2942
Currency events. Kahan, Steve Brief article Feb 1, 2012 359
A geography quiz. Hall, T.A. Feb 1, 2012 1452
Cleo's secret blog. Brief article Dec 23, 2011 237
Sign sleuth. Deiterich, Ann Nov 1, 2011 111
Picture puzzler. Whitehead, Pete Nov 1, 2011 160
Poor Will's Countryside Almanack for late autumn & early winter. Felker, W.L. Nov 1, 2011 4900
Look Back! Nov 1, 2011 539
Vowels v consonants. Nov 1, 2011 2234
Invertible Word Squares and Rectangles. Nov 1, 2011 642
Celestial Magic--Another Magic Spell. Brief article Nov 1, 2011 241
Spuzzle, Inc. Releases a Social Competition App with the Best of Three Popular Word Games. Oct 7, 2011 386
A fiction wordsearch. Kendall, Phil Brief article Sep 22, 2011 214
SpinIsland to Launch Piffle Connect, a New Twist in Social Word Games for iPhone and iPad Users. Sep 16, 2011 525
"X" marks the spot. Kahan, Steve Brief article May 1, 2011 367
Digitalised numerical tautonyms. Thorpe, Susan May 1, 2011 1136
Doublets. Richards, Dana May 1, 2011 616
A cryptic puzzle from the London Times. Richards, Dana Brief article May 1, 2011 102
Hey kids! Are you an ECO-hero?!! Test your environmental knowledge with these fun spring word games! Mar 22, 2011 227
A Backdoor Approach to Lipograms. Brief article Feb 1, 2011 534
Word rings from rearranged alphabets. Feb 1, 2011 496
Some Words to the Wise: Sixty More Adventures in Logology For the Connoisseur. Feb 1, 2011 1010
Post-its--1. Feb 1, 2011 506
Scrabble[R]-tile double word squares and rectangles. Feb 1, 2011 2093
Anagram quiz. Brief article Feb 1, 2011 533
Punk Whiz 13. Feb 1, 2011 624
Word find. Wilmore, Kathy Brief article Jan 10, 2011 120
Cleo's secret blog. Croxford, Rowena Brief article Jan 1, 2011 259
Game show: statements to read: correct response. Brief article Dec 13, 2010 234
Arbitrary words. Nov 1, 2010 1681
Name categories. Brief article Nov 1, 2010 183
Letter height lipograms. Nov 1, 2010 569
Christmas squares. Robertson, O.J. Brief article Nov 1, 2010 116
Hiya, Ed! Brief article Nov 1, 2010 366
Sherlockiana. Nov 1, 2010 540
Word ways magic. Gardner, Martin Brief article Aug 1, 2010 385
The Word Magic of Lewis Carroll. Lederer, Richard Aug 1, 2010 2017
Punk whiz 11. Anil Aug 1, 2010 702
Author, author!--Part 1. Kahan, Steve Brief article Aug 1, 2010 387
Mathematics and Word Play. Gardner, Martin Aug 1, 2010 864
Denizens of the deep. Kahan, Steve Brief article Aug 1, 2010 384
Tic-tac-toe played as a word game. Gardner, Martin Brief article Aug 1, 2010 394
A trip to the seaside: Thursday, July 1, 2010. Cleo Brief article Jul 1, 2010 221
Classroom quiz page: summer quiz 2010. Jun 22, 2010 382
A rhino has my earlobe. Brief article May 1, 2010 105
A riddle. Seckel, Al Brief article May 1, 2010 295
Word Ways magic. Gardner, Martin Brief article May 1, 2010 237
A 2152--point scrabble move. Grant, Jeff May 1, 2010 876
A talking square. Morice, Dave Brief article May 1, 2010 104
Strip scrabble. Morice, Dave May 1, 2010 999
It's elementary. Kahan, Steve Brief article May 1, 2010 443
Numerical charades part 2. Thorpe, Susan May 1, 2010 2579
Organization. Kahan, Steve Brief article May 1, 2010 388
Colloquy. Feb 1, 2010 950
Synonym Pudding. Feb 1, 2010 906
Embedded Relations. Brief article Feb 1, 2010 159
Scrabble Quiz. Brief article Feb 1, 2010 216
Halloween Scrabble. Brief article Feb 1, 2010 381
Color blind--1. Brief article Feb 1, 2010 339
The Broad Ripple puzzle-game. Feb 1, 2010 418
Witwits--part 1. Brief article Feb 1, 2010 430
Word games, reading 'help boost memory among the less educated'. Jan 12, 2010 433
Valentine flowers. Brief article Jan 1, 2010 94
Piano Music. Brief article Jan 1, 2010 100
Latin square word puzzles. Knuth, Donald Brief article Nov 1, 2009 131
A 4470-point scrabble game. Grant, Jeff Nov 1, 2009 602
Everything fell but rain. Morice, Dave Nov 1, 2009 1584
Solid and hypersolid forms. Kon, Ronnie Nov 1, 2009 3666
Martin Gardner's word magic enthralls broad ripple teens. Farrell, Jeremiah Nov 1, 2009 686
World series--1. Kahan, Steve Nov 1, 2009 388
A challenge to Will Shortz. Maurer, Mickey Nov 1, 2009 508
Anagram crossword logic puzzle. Wolf, Mark J.P. Nov 1, 2009 827
Here's to "U". Kahan, Steve Nov 1, 2009 1257
Write to left people. Kahan, Steve Brief article Nov 1, 2009 406
Warp speed gaming with Star Trek scrabble. Brief article Nov 1, 2009 248
Word games: the importance of defining phonemic awareness for professional discourse. Walsh, Regina Report Oct 1, 2009 6249
Back to Albuquerque again. Kahan, Steve Aug 1, 2009 352
Punc lib charades. Anil Aug 1, 2009 570
Colloquy. Aug 1, 2009 566
Punk whiz 8. Anil Aug 1, 2009 521
Word magic. Gardner, Martin Aug 1, 2009 1405
Last trip to Albuquerque. Kahan, Steve Aug 1, 2009 315
Toward more efficient number mnemonics. Keith, Mike Aug 1, 2009 821
Odd one out. Thorpe, Susan Aug 1, 2009 2462
Test the mind; Classic Word Games (DS). Jul 5, 2009 101
Lake days. Price, Diana Barker Jul 1, 2009 177
South seas treasure hunt. Matson, Sara Jun 1, 2009 135
The New Model Five-Jog Knight. Puder, Jim May 1, 2009 597
Super word switch. Forte, Mark May 1, 2009 90
Strange but true. Morice, David Brief article May 1, 2009 151
Scrabble Goddess. Morice, David Brief article May 1, 2009 110
Word worm maze. Wolf, Mark J.P. Brief article May 1, 2009 347
Punk whiz 7. Anil May 1, 2009 630
Return to Albuquerque. Kahan, Steve Brief article May 1, 2009 235
A wordy digression: the game of HIPE. Winkler, Peter May 1, 2009 1452
What's in?--A name!--Part V. Kahan, Steve Brief article May 1, 2009 257
A puzzle/game. Thumpbindle, Oscar Brief article May 1, 2009 125
Using word scrambles as an information systems creativity warm-up exercise. Dunphy, Steven M.; Milbourne, Constance C. Report Mar 22, 2009 1862
Cubic word squares. Eckler, A. Ross Feb 1, 2009 526
Knight's challenge answered. Puder, Jim Feb 1, 2009 753
Disguising old age. Morice, David Brief article Feb 1, 2009 89
Tail-tag: "how word dances ... in new ways!". Tanaka, Tomoyuki Feb 1, 2009 823
Hello and goodbye. Anil Brief article Feb 1, 2009 196
Shiftgrams again. Francis, Darryl Table Feb 1, 2009 823
A Bouquet for Gardner. Farrell, Jeremiah; Rodgers, Thomas Critical essay Feb 1, 2009 2586
Oscar Thumpbindle's Tourmaline puzzle. Thumpbindle, Oscar Brief article Feb 1, 2009 127
Mysterious lights. Bertel, Steven Brief article Jan 1, 2009 146
How to logologically select the vice-president. Eckler, A. Ross Nov 1, 2008 500
Leaping letters. Thorpe, Susan Nov 1, 2008 513
Kickshaws. Nov 1, 2008 8639
What's in?--a name!--Part III. Kahan, Steve Brief article Nov 1, 2008 270
The apple-sauce chronicles. Phillips, Louis Nov 1, 2008 1172
Pondering with Pegg. Pegg, Ed, Jr. Brief article Nov 1, 2008 247
Your alphabet animals. Brief article Aug 1, 2008 140
Three Jog Knight. Jacobs, Harold Brief article Aug 1, 2008 311
Scrabble tales, scrabble tiles. Brief article Aug 1, 2008 377
Interlocking ladders. Brief article Aug 1, 2008 105
Beheading. Liu, Andy Aug 1, 2008 501
Punk whiz 4. Anil Aug 1, 2008 398
Forty-three names. Francis, Darryl Brief article Aug 1, 2008 187
Variation on a theme of Francis. Farrell, Jeremiah Brief article Aug 1, 2008 190
Missing persons. Kahan, Steve Brief article Aug 1, 2008 266
Triple play. Robinson, Loma Brief article Jul 1, 2008 100
Alphabetically-universal trigrams. Morice, David Brief article May 1, 2008 89
Scrabble Algebra addenda. Morice, David Brief article May 1, 2008 289
Errant wordplay. Morice, David Brief article May 1, 2008 96
Nanomechatronics. Pegg, Ed, Jr. Brief article May 1, 2008 87
Unusual words. Thorpe, Susan May 1, 2008 380
More distinct dozens and then some. Kahan, Steve Brief article May 1, 2008 242
Effects of word games, culturally relevant songs, and stories on students' motivation in a Nigerian English language class. Ajibade, Yetunde; Ndububa, Kate Mar 22, 2008 8423
Bear's basket. Mishica, Clare Brief article Mar 1, 2008 139
Hexagons and their edges. Thorpe, Susan Feb 1, 2008 1351
Exercise your brain with Bananagrams. Maurer, Matthew M. Product/service evaluation Feb 1, 2008 912
Words to the wise. Burkitt, Alice Brief article Jan 1, 2008 202
Jack and Jill puzzler. Leone, Dee Brief article Jan 1, 2008 89
Patty's pen pals. Brief article Nov 1, 2007 135
Word play. Gardner, Martin Excerpt Nov 1, 2007 2072
Anacrograms 3: quotations: Anil's earlier Anacrograms were in May and August 2006. Nov 1, 2007 3402
Scrabble algebra. Morice, David Nov 1, 2007 985
Self-expressive number names. Eckler, a. Ross Nov 1, 2007 506
Most-perfect word magic. Thumpbindle, Oscar Nov 1, 2007 767
Double triples. Kahan, Steve Nov 1, 2007 352
A near-perfect French 9-by-8 word rectangle. Eckler, A. Ross; Eckler, Faith W. Nov 1, 2007 354
More consecutive palindromic triads. Kahan, Steve Brief article Nov 1, 2007 259
Transposing 4-letter words. Thorpe, Susan Nov 1, 2007 2215
Chemical elements inside of other elements. Mariscal, Antonio Joaquin Franco Nov 1, 2007 1284
A 5-dimensional magic die. Dillon, David S.; Farrell, Jeremiah Nov 1, 2007 239
Sequences within. Thorpe, Susan Nov 1, 2007 2428
Jill's computer glitch. Poulet, Noelle Brief article Nov 1, 2007 88
Compound fractures. Hier, Doris Brief article Sep 1, 2007 154
Find the fruit. Fry, Tanya Brief article Sep 1, 2007 168
Degaraged, depiped and derotored. Grant, Jeff Aug 1, 2007 2340
Words from dice. Eckler, A. Ross Aug 1, 2007 972
Artie Artichoke's refreshing summer word search. Brief article May 1, 2007 116
Satanix. Francis, Darryl Product/service evaluation May 1, 2007 1811
State smart. Fisher, Doris Feb 1, 2007 99
Look back! Over the years Word Ways has displayed a varied logological corpus. In this column I revisit forgotten ideas, connect seemingly-disparate concepts, and suggest further investigations. Eckler, A. Ross Column Feb 1, 2007 1720
Colloquy. Feb 1, 2007 990
Remote pager. Maven, Max Feb 1, 2007 853
Linguistic catches. Gardner, Martin Feb 1, 2007 709
Transposals and transadditions. Francis, Darryl Feb 1, 2007 1341
Kickshaws. Morice, Dave Brief article Feb 1, 2007 99
O Ye of Little. Thorpe, Susan Brief article Feb 1, 2007 302
Word Ways, Colloquy and Kickshaws. Thorpe, Susan Brief article Feb 1, 2007 234
Answers and solutions. Brief article Feb 1, 2007 178
What is that? Hier, Doris Brief article Jan 1, 2007 209
Icy fun. Brief article Jan 1, 2007 126
Half-alphabet nursery rhymes. Eckler, A. Ross Nov 1, 2006 1491
Orchard words. Farrell, Jeremiah; Farrell, Karen Brief article Nov 1, 2006 308
Contrary cognomina. Holgate, John Nov 1, 2006 808
AERST transposals. Grant, Jeff Nov 1, 2006 1692
Attractive opposites. Lederer, Richard Nov 1, 2006 689
Upwards edge words. Thorpe, Susan Nov 1, 2006 807
The "A" list. Kahan, Steven Nov 1, 2006 411
'Palindrome' trans-3-deletions revisited. Francis, Darryl Nov 1, 2006 581
Punk whiz 3. Anil Nov 1, 2006 504
The Great Dog Mystery. Eckler, A. Ross Nov 1, 2006 402
Kickshaws. Column Nov 1, 2006 3911
Vowel-consonant patterns: 10-letter words. Thorpe, Susan Nov 1, 2006 2782
Vowel-Consonant Patterns in 8-letter heterograms. Thorpe, Susan Aug 1, 2006 906
Heterogrammic word squares. Eckler, A. Ross Aug 1, 2006 917
Some narrative alphametics. Mayfield, James Aug 1, 2006 531
Your it! Pollema-Cahill, Phyllis May 1, 2006 89
The best ten-squares. Grant, Jeff May 1, 2006 1268
Joaquin through the pangram window. Chaikin, Eric May 1, 2006 1187
ANACROGRAMS: prolegomenon to acrostic anagrams. May 1, 2006 621
The generation game. Thorpe, Susan May 1, 2006 401
Double word squares from scrabble[R] tiles. Keith, Mike May 1, 2006 777
Igpay words. May 1, 2006 800
Chemical symbols of elements 110 and beyond. Francis, Darryl May 1, 2006 3229
Internal isomorphs. Thorpe, Susan May 1, 2006 1196
Embedding many words in pi. Eckler, A. Ross May 1, 2006 1182
Kickshaws. Morice, Dave May 1, 2006 5209
I'm (alas!) a salami. Emmons, Win May 1, 2006 936
Olympic confusion. Feb 6, 2006 136
Sub-60-letter pangrammatic windows. Keith, Mike Feb 1, 2006 451
The Bellamy charades. Wortman, Doris Nash Feb 1, 2006 1199
Shifts progress. Thorpe, Susan Feb 1, 2006 2819
Elementary transadditions. Francis, Darryl Feb 1, 2006 959
Meaningful offspring. Thorpe, Susan Feb 1, 2006 1046
Letter lengths. Iverson, Eric; Eckler, A. Ross Feb 1, 2006 841
A new fourteen-letter transposition. Francis, Darryl Feb 1, 2006 345
Enlarging Dutch tautonyms. Corstius, Hugo Brandt Brief Article Feb 1, 2006 162
Enlarging English tautonyms. Eckler, A. Ross Brief Article Feb 1, 2006 291
Un-truthful words. Anil Feb 1, 2006 367
A mathematical war of words. Jan 9, 2006 130
Let's sing. Seguin, Lou Jan 1, 2006 115
Spelling blocks. Brief Article Jan 1, 2006 90
Magic square logology. Eckler, A. Ross Nov 1, 2005 471
Looping, grouping and aligning the vowels. Thorpe, Susan Nov 1, 2005 2397
A true pyramid. Anil Nov 1, 2005 411
New transposals of California placenames. Francis, Darryl Nov 1, 2005 381
Letter sums and differences. Iverson, Eric Nov 1, 2005 667
Mixed-up veggies. Hanson, Bonnie Compton Nov 1, 2005 126
School supplies. Stutson, Caroline Sep 1, 2005 115
Name game. Dishmon, Pauline B. Sep 1, 2005 114
Not quite bite, er, right. Sep 1, 2005 106
WYSIWYG words for scrabble players. Holgate, John Aug 1, 2005 1263
One, two, three. Heaney, Francis Jun 22, 2005 1072
High-scoring scrabble[TM] strings seeking definition. Pratt, Dan Jun 22, 2005 819
Base pairs. Iverson, Eric May 1, 2005 802
Wide alphametics. Keith, Mike May 1, 2005 872
Guggenheim sentences. Gooch, Rex May 1, 2005 578
Weather wise. Kamins, Patricia W. May 1, 2005 134
Hat chat. Schellman, Andrea H. May 1, 2005 101
The eleven square--take two. Gooch, Rex Brief Article May 1, 2005 257
Smynonyms or definitive palindromes. Anil May 1, 2005 1525
Vowel swap transposals. Thorpe, Susan May 1, 2005 2009
Colloquy. May 1, 2005 1636
Letter trees. Iverson, Eric May 1, 2005 343
It's a sonnet (not sestina). Keith, Mike Brief Article May 1, 2005 271
Games on nonsymmetic word configurations. Farrell, Jeremiah; Nelson, Eric M. May 1, 2005 648
Higher Cardinal Transposals. Francis, Darryl May 1, 2005 691
Heterogrammatic eight-squares. Gooch, Rex May 1, 2005 709
Ventriloquism for Dummies. Morice, Dave May 1, 2005 519
Word lists with all starting letters. Gooch, Rex May 1, 2005 363
Kickshaws. Morice, Dave May 1, 2005 6364
Slub glub. Eckler, Faith W. May 1, 2005 510
Unsuspected presidential vanities. Puder, Jim May 1, 2005 335
Animal Crackers. Anil May 1, 2005 442
Long word weaves. Gooch, Rex May 1, 2005 374
Sequential words. Thorpe, Susan Feb 1, 2005 4457
Cruel unending drama. Keith, Mike Brief Article Feb 1, 2005 197
More balanced word pairs. Gooch, Rex Feb 1, 2005 581
Constrained pyramids. Thorpe, Susan Feb 1, 2005 694
Word weaves. Kahan, Steven Feb 1, 2005 323
Kickshaws. Morice, Dave Feb 1, 2005 5626
The prime ministers, more or less. Puder, Jim Feb 1, 2005 700
Vicinal and nonvicinal heterograms. Iverson, Eric Feb 1, 2005 555
Don Quixote pangrams. Gooch, Rex Feb 1, 2005 488
Chart smart. Hughes, Robert M. Jan 1, 2005 123
Kid grid. Tomko, Diana Jan 1, 2005 121
A further modified ten-square. Grant, Jeff Nov 1, 2004 531
"Demi Ran, Nan," Anna Rimed. Puder, Jim Nov 1, 2004 2149
Elementary combinations. Francis, Darryl Nov 1, 2004 833
Are all words interesting? Anil Nov 1, 2004 1475
"Is anal retentive hyphenated?": self-referential humor. Hauptman, Don Nov 1, 2004 821
Colloquy. Nov 1, 2004 888
More purple turtles (Part 1). Thorpe, Susan Nov 1, 2004 971
More purple turtles. Gooch, Rex Nov 1, 2004 422
Roman ways. Thorpe, Susan Nov 1, 2004 4515
Euler path words. Iverson, Eric Nov 1, 2004 350
Letter banks of the capitals. Nediger, Will Nov 1, 2004 719
Apple-saucy. Morice, Dave Nov 1, 2004 484
Triplets. Farrell, Jeremiah; Farrell, Karen Nov 1, 2004 1142
Jack and Jill puzzler. Sep 1, 2004 91
Transposing one genre into another. Thorpe, Susan Aug 1, 2004 2518
The Purple Turtle. Tilque, Dan Aug 1, 2004 1627
Twin places and other top anagrams. Gooch, Rex Aug 1, 2004 3214
The Ustated Nites of America. Jul 1, 2004 119

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