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The last game we played at this year�s Will Shortz�s Wonderful World of Words is The Chameleon, created by an English company that has the best name in the biz -- Big Potato. It�s distributed in the U.S. by...

Remember the feeling of taking a standardized test and facing a math problem requiring skills you never learned or have long forgotten? Remember the relief when you could eliminate a couple of the possibilities? Better to have a 50-50...

How do you get from �Furry Mother� to �Harry Potter?� If you are playing Out of Order, the answer is: usually, one letter at a time. Players are given a category (in this case, �Character�) and a nonsense phrase...

If it�s November, it�s time for Will Shortz�s Wonderful World of Words at the beautiful Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, New York. And as we do every year, word fanatics from all over the country played four board...

Letter Tycoon (from Squirmy Beast and Breaking Games) is the last of the four games we played at Will Shortz�s Wonderful World of Words weekend, and it was a huge hit. The illustrations and graphic design (by Mackenzie Schubert)...

Compared to the frenzy of Anomia, our third game, Alpha Bandits (from Wiggity Bang Games), is downright sedate. But beware of sedate games. Just as with people, it�s always the quiet games that you have to watch out for...

Anomia was the second game we played at this year�s Will Shortz�s Wonderful World of Words (invented by Andrew Innes, published by Anomia Press, and distributed by Everest). Anomia is a simple card game. The cards contain a colored...

Switcheroo! is a fun category game from Endless Games, the company that brought you Oddly Obvious. Switcheroo! is like Scattergories on helium: Instead of silently filling out a grid, in Switcheroo! players hold cards with either a letter or...

I�ve written before (http://www.imponderables.com/archives...) about how the beginning of my work career coincided with DL�s early network television days. At that time, I was working in the daytime programming department at 30 Rock, but got bumped up to primetime when...

Chiles are up. Celery salt is down....