The Honeycomb Game
Trace words by moving through a honeycomb of letters. Play against the clock, or try to build a high score.
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Word Games
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Games with words and their letters, just for fun, including our own Honeycomb word-building game.
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Add Vowels
Make words just by adding vowels (AEIOUY) to a group of consonants. See if you can match our target.
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Nines
Draw words out of a bank of just nine letters. See if you can match our target, and guess the nine-letter word.
Wednesday’s Games
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Doublets
Doublets is a game popularised in England by Victorian children’s writer Lewis Carroll. Change one word into another one letter at a time. For example, cat to dog in 3 steps: cat, cot, dot, dog.
Change hard to luck in 4 steps.
A Solution
This solution may not be the most efficient, but it satisfies Carroll’s rule that the words should be English words in ordinary use and suitable for polite society.
- Hard.
- Hark.
- Lark.
- Lack.
- Luck.
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People and Places
Suggest an example for each of the following:
- a non-food item from the kitchen
- a national capital
- an ocean, sea, or lake
- the title of a poem, novel, or short story
For extra credit, choose your 4 items so that when you gather up their starting letters, you can arrange them to spell the word sail.
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