Word Ways

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List of Papers (Total 4,121)

Polyomino Crossword Puzzle

A two-ways-to-play crossword puzzle and an explanation behind its creation.

9,3-Configuration Puzzle

A configuration puzzle and explanation of how it was created.

Caucus Race Puzzle Master

An Alice in Wonderland puzzle.

Wordage

While thumbing a ride through the dictionary, I came across some 'age

Visual Symmetry in Chinese Writing

A listing of visually symmetrical Chinese logographs which are symmetrical along either the x-axis or the y-axis.

Afterwords

An excerpt from Steven Kahan's puzzle book.

Homophonic Letter Groups - Plus One, Minus One

Adding a first or last letter to homophonic phrases.

Adding a Third Vowel

Begin with a word having two different vowels. Keeping the letters in the same order, add a third different vowel anywhere to make another word.

Words with Element Symbols

Finding words that contain the symbols of the chemical elements.

Increasing and Decreasing

The letters of a word are split into groups. Assigning A=1, B=2 etc they increase or decrease.

Alternate Additions

Start by adding a single letter to the beginning of a 2-letter word to make a 3-letter word then add a single letter to the end of the word to make a 4-letter word. Continue adding single letters alternately in this manner.

The Scunthorpe Problem

Scunthorpe is an industrial town in North Lincolnshire, England, with a population of about 80,000. So, what's the Scunthorpe problem?

Self-Descriptive Number Names

If you assign numbers to different letters, you can configure the numbers in a way so that the letters that make up a number add up to that number.

Zero Redundancy!

In the February 2020 Word Ways the article 0.1479% Redundancy presented a list of words and names beginning with 675 of 676 possible two-letter combinations, or digraphs. The missing digraph was VQ.

Words, Words, Words

A humorous essay on words used in sets of three.

Bigram Sentences and Trigram Sentences

Every word of a sentence contains the same bigram.or trigram.

Spoonerism Name Game, Redux

More onomastic reversals...and a sidebar.

This Side Up

A poem.

Kenya Transposals

A list of 90 transposals of KENYA.

A Steve Bloom Puzzle

A puzzle used for the Alice in Wonderland class at Butler University, used now to honor Dr. Steve Bloom.

Word Ways Ends!

Announcement about the future of Word Ways.