One word can be changed into another in many ways: substitution of a letter (BET-BAT), addition of a letter (BAT-BATE), deletion of a letter (BATE-ATE), or a rearrangement of letters (ATE-TEA). The figure below can be used in conjunction with a spinner mounted on transparent plastic (obtainable from school supply stores) to make a game in which players in turn add words to a sentence in accordance with the spinner instructions, until someone can no longer continue and is the loser
The object of this game is to find more sets of rhyming words on a particular page than your opponen...
In Mathematical Mind-Benders, Peter Winkler. Wellesley, MA: A.K. Peters, 2007. Reprinted by permissi...
When someone had a good day on the athletic field, we say She brought her A game with her. Now ...
Many words are conspicuous for their repetitions of a single letter, like the S in SASSAFRASS, the O...
An interesting two-person game begins by choosing any set of words - say, for example, O, HIP, LLAMA...
The rules of our proposed games are very simple. Two persons alternately draw letter titles until on...
In Problem 48 in Your Move (McGraw-Hill, 1971), David Silverman described a linguistic version of ti...
In Problem 48 in Your Move (McGraw-Hill, 1971), David Silverman described a linguistic version of ti...
WORDwhami is a board game of word strategy, tactics and vocabulary - designed to challenge your mind...
Fun Slot Machines are a variant of the classical ones. Pulling a lever, the player generates a seque...
In Wordnim and Grundyword in the Aug 1993 Word Ways, and Edith Plays Word Treblecross in the Aug...
This game is for license plates having a 3-letter prefix, as ABC-123.The object is to make a word by...
The November 1989 Word Ways reviewed Recreational Mathemagical Software (Clarks Summit PA) designed ...
In the May 1974 issue of Word Ways, Darryl Francis and Ron Jerome presented a 1961-point single move...
As reported in the November issue of Word Ways, Peggy Boulden\u27s class from Indianapolis\u27 Broad...
The object of this game is to find more sets of rhyming words on a particular page than your opponen...
In Mathematical Mind-Benders, Peter Winkler. Wellesley, MA: A.K. Peters, 2007. Reprinted by permissi...
When someone had a good day on the athletic field, we say She brought her A game with her. Now ...
Many words are conspicuous for their repetitions of a single letter, like the S in SASSAFRASS, the O...
An interesting two-person game begins by choosing any set of words - say, for example, O, HIP, LLAMA...
The rules of our proposed games are very simple. Two persons alternately draw letter titles until on...
In Problem 48 in Your Move (McGraw-Hill, 1971), David Silverman described a linguistic version of ti...
In Problem 48 in Your Move (McGraw-Hill, 1971), David Silverman described a linguistic version of ti...
WORDwhami is a board game of word strategy, tactics and vocabulary - designed to challenge your mind...
Fun Slot Machines are a variant of the classical ones. Pulling a lever, the player generates a seque...
In Wordnim and Grundyword in the Aug 1993 Word Ways, and Edith Plays Word Treblecross in the Aug...
This game is for license plates having a 3-letter prefix, as ABC-123.The object is to make a word by...
The November 1989 Word Ways reviewed Recreational Mathemagical Software (Clarks Summit PA) designed ...
In the May 1974 issue of Word Ways, Darryl Francis and Ron Jerome presented a 1961-point single move...
As reported in the November issue of Word Ways, Peggy Boulden\u27s class from Indianapolis\u27 Broad...
The object of this game is to find more sets of rhyming words on a particular page than your opponen...
In Mathematical Mind-Benders, Peter Winkler. Wellesley, MA: A.K. Peters, 2007. Reprinted by permissi...
When someone had a good day on the athletic field, we say She brought her A game with her. Now ...