The well-paced performance (with backdrop slide show of photos, a stuffed dummy father, and surprise pop-up) entertains and reels us in as we relate to the family crisis – her father’s stroke – the toll on her father unable to speak but four words, the exhaustion of her self-sacrif...
Don’t forget aboutJigsaw Words, the new free word game that Amazon released in August. I’d describe it as a “refrigerator magnet” game, where there’spartsof words scattered across different “puzzle pieces,” and you match them up to create a complete set of words, united by a singl...
(Can you “Throw in the Vowel?”) It offers the thrill of creating meaning itself — turning arbitrary patterns into words. In one puzzle, the “clue box” even has five S’s! For the last year I’ve been telling Jeffrey that he may have invented the world’s next, great word game...
Butts created a game during the Depression where lettered tiles were assigned points on a crossword puzzle-style grid. Butts came up with names for the game like CrissCross Words and Lexiko before licensing the idea to James Brunot, who called it Scrabble. Sales were fairly abysmal at first...