Archive for Games
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Unfortunate Forever Stamps
I'm guessing most Americans know by now that the US Postal Service sells “Forever Stamps”; you buy a Forever Stamp at today's first-class one-ounce stamp price, and it will be...
Fake Ludlum titles
Nice list of winners of Slate's 2012 Fake Robert Ludlum Title contest, along with notes on Salman Rushdie's Ludlumization of Shakespeare plays....
Commas, multiple
The following sentence contains a comma after every word: Ahead, Edmund, inevitably, lurked. I'm not saying it's a good sentence, but I believe it to be grammatical. So what's the...
Let them eat…
Mary Anne was talking about eating cake the night before surgery. I noted that cake is the best medicine. Which led me to think there could be a whole series...
A sign to help with the alphabet game
The alphabet game involves trying to find a written instance of each letter of the alphabet while traveling by car. Sometimes the rules require that the letters appear only on...
Boggle poetry
I've been playing an iPhone game called Befuddled that lets you find words in a grid, sort of Boggle-style (but a much bigger grid and with many many complications). It's...
New iPhone word game
Some day I'll review various iPhone word games that I like; in particular, Jumbline (also available in a free lite version) was my favorite until now. And it's still pretty...
House rules, part 4
I've previously posted various fortune-cookie fortunes that I find entertaining when you add ". . . in bed" to the end: Column HHH: House Rules Blog entry: House rules Blog entry: Spam, fortunes,...