Tag: CROSSWORD

When I wrote about Word Domination, several Download Squad readers commented and proposed WHATSTHISW?RD as a possible alternative. It's as plain as can be: you write an English word with question marks in place of the letters you don't know, and it comes up with a number of alternatives. It does not support multi-letter wildcards (like d*squad); it only supports single characters. That makes ...

Quick! What's an eight-letter word that starts with R, ends with M, and has B somewhere in it?* I know that these are often life-or-death questions, especially if Scrabble is involved (or poetry, for that matter). It's a good thing we're in the 21st century and there are now handy tools like Word Finder. This handy little form, hidden away in, of all places, the Toolbox section of a photography ...

Ever look in a crossword puzzle dictionary? It's not a dictionary in the traditional sense, with words and definitions. Rather, it connects words, places, ideas in all sorts of ways that could only possibly be useful if you're working on a difficult puzzle or studying for the SATs. But if you think about it, a search engine kind of does the same thing. So it's not too surprising to see Yahoo! ...

It's a cross between a crossword and a word search: Word Coil. Starting with the first letter of a word in a grid of letters, you find the rest of the word coiling inside the grid, connected, but not moving in one direction. Really ingenious, and if you like word games, and seek-and-find style action, you'll be here for a while. Thanks to Jason T. for sending this in! ...