Advantages: Brain-stretching
Disadvantages: Time consuming

...A game for all ages. Which everyone has surely played at some point in their life. Serious Scrabble players have huge tournaments and watching them play is very interesting as they have good tactics. For the rest of us its mainly one of those games that comes out at Christmas. ~~~~The Game~~~~ The concept is simple, each player blindly picks from a bag 7 letter tiles. The letter tiles are each given a point value (printed on the tile) depending on their ease of use, for example the letter E scores only 1 point whilst Z scores 10 points. ~~~~Playing~~~~ The first player must make a word in the centre of the board using their tiles. Each subsequent player has to make a word which crosses or butts onto an existing word on the board to make a new word. If your word hits other words at then they must also form a word. For example if you... Read review

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Advantages: A must have book for any word lover
Disadvantages: None

...are more profound' The book is broken into 55 chapters covering a variety of concepts and categories from animal words to Latin terms, to words that describe people, words for odds and ends, coined words, words that spell checkers cannot cope with, medical words, "words that make one say 'I didn't know there was a word for that!"' positive words, words about words and many, many more besides. The book is not only highly informative, it I also highly entertaining, too. It would have been possible for Anu Garg to have used dry and academic example to prove his points or to illustrate the meaning of a difficult word. But, no! Garg employs humour to put over the meanings of hard or difficult words. For example chapter 38 is 'uncommon words with common suffixes' The first example we see is: oniomania. Described as excessive, uncontrollable... Read review

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Advantages: You’ll get a giggle out of this challenge
Disadvantages: You’ll probably lose your sanity if you do this challenge!

...Hello people!! Just thought I'd give you guys something interesting to do...look below if you dare. I’ve done challenges for other people and desperately wanted to do one of my own, so here it is. Basically the idea is, I say a word and you have to say the first thing that comes into your head. Let's see how normal you lot are! I’ll give you an example. Say if I was doing this…and try to keep a straight face here when you read this, say if somebody said the word DUCK to me, I’d have to come up with the first thing that popped into my head. E.g. Word: DUCK Answer: Quack! ‘Quack’ would probably be my answer. It can be more that one word, whatever you like, just so long as it’s the first thing that pops into your head. Seeing as how this is my challenge I might as well do it first so... Read review

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...Desire To Care Paradise in turmoil, Organised Chaos. A battlefield of emotion, Control without controls. A wilderness in Time, Floods of tears. Acres of happiness, Eyes that sparkle. Such joy and glee, Contrast unremitting pain. Thoughts chasing through trees, Dodging, never crashing. Turn around and see me, Hear my voice, Touch me. You are my everything, My swift footsteps without movement. With billowing hair you observe, Lips that shame blood. Like a river with gracious curves, Beauty rivalled only by your reflection. Needs to desires, Desires untamed in the hunt, Love flowing from the source, Snow without the cold. By Richard Taylor June 1999 © 1999 Mr Richard M Taylor. Extra word Extra word Extra word Extra word Extra word Extra word Extra word Extra word Extra word Extra word Extra... Read review

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Advantages: Excellent quality book. So unusual
Disadvantages: ????

...Firstly i would like to just give you an overview of the book by quoting the blurb;- "The word 'philavery' was specially invented to describe this book - a collection of words chosen simply for their aesthetic appeal. Some of these words appeal because of their aptness, some for their obscurity, some for their euphony and some for their quirkiness. As a collection they will be a delight to all word lovers. " From the introduction to the book, I understand this book to have been carefully produced over a long period of time. Whenever Christopher Foyle ( Chairman of the world-famous Foyles bookshop in London's Charing Cross) came across a word that he found interesting he noted it down and carefully recorded it. This collection has later been edited, and revised to show the words full meaning and etymology, where appropriate... Read review

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Advantages: Great fun and stimulating for the little grey cells!
Disadvantages: Dictionary can be annoying at times!!!

...I first played Wordox a few weeks ago having read the articles on this site and I simply have to add my own comments. The game is brilliant. It combines the lexical skills of Scrabble with the strategic know-how of Othello to provide an excellent and addictive game. The aim is to create words from the letters in your hand as in Scrabble within the allotted time limit but, at the same time, one is also trying to alter the colour of words already on the screen to your own by using the letters as part of your own word. This not only adds points to your score, it also takes points away from the opponent who created the original word. There are two main frustrations with this game. Firstly, when you play a brilliant word and then someone else comes along and build across from the first four letters to create four 2 letter words... Read review

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