Knoword is a fun way to test and improve your vocabulary
Think you have a good vocabulary? If that's true, Knoword lets you show it off... or find out that maybe it isn't as great as you thought. Knoword is a fast dictionary game. You'll be shown a definition along with the first letter of the word and you need to figure out what the word is. Once you type the word (correctly, mind you – spelling matters), you get points and get the next word.
Initially you have 60 seconds to figure out the correct response; with each word you find correctly, you receive additional time. When you find several words in a row, you get a "Word Streak" badge. If the game has you completely stumped, you can always skip a word. This also requires a bit of quick thinking, because skipping a word results in a small point penalty. On the other hand, the clock is ticking... so is this word on the tip of your tongue, or should you skip it and go on to the next?
You can also open an account and have your game results saved. If you're good enough, you may end up somewhere in the player rankings.
Initially you have 60 seconds to figure out the correct response; with each word you find correctly, you receive additional time. When you find several words in a row, you get a "Word Streak" badge. If the game has you completely stumped, you can always skip a word. This also requires a bit of quick thinking, because skipping a word results in a small point penalty. On the other hand, the clock is ticking... so is this word on the tip of your tongue, or should you skip it and go on to the next?
You can also open an account and have your game results saved. If you're good enough, you may end up somewhere in the player rankings.













Comments
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Subscribe to commentsRyzvonusefDec 17th 2010 10:56AM
It's nice and addictive, but I am rather slow.
meyerhtjDec 17th 2010 11:12AM
It's cool, but it keeps stopping randomly for me, both in Chrome and Firefox
dustinwwDec 19th 2010 8:47AM
@meyerhtj Funny I get an annoying internet-explorer-sucks-and-every-other-browser-is-better-and-doesn't-have-problems-like-ie popup and can't evem use it. Funny I get that message, but performance is shoddy for everybody else.
youandenDec 17th 2010 12:09PM
Wow. I was really excited to test it out. But they are having some serious server latency. Some words take forever to skip, and the leader boards take quite a while to load :((
JonDec 17th 2010 1:35PM
copepod?