A two-ways-to-play crossword puzzle and an explanation behind its creation.
A configuration puzzle and explanation of how it was created.
An Alice in Wonderland puzzle.
While thumbing a ride through the dictionary, I came across some 'age
A listing of visually symmetrical Chinese logographs which are symmetrical along either the x-axis or the y-axis.
An excerpt from Steven Kahan's puzzle book.
Adding a first or last letter to homophonic phrases.
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.
Finding words that contain the symbols of the chemical elements.
The letters of a word are split into groups. Assigning A=1, B=2 etc they increase or decrease.
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.
Scunthorpe is an industrial town in North Lincolnshire, England, with a population of about 80,000. So, what's the Scunthorpe problem?
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.
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.
A humorous essay on words used in sets of three.
Every word of a sentence contains the same bigram.or trigram.
More onomastic reversals...and a sidebar.
A poem.
A list of 90 transposals of KENYA.
A puzzle used for the Alice in Wonderland class at Butler University, used now to honor Dr. Steve Bloom.
Announcement about the future of Word Ways.