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GAMES
 Word
Hotspots
1.3
Play a
competitive word game opponent in a fully
customisable manner, anagram from seven letters
and place them on a board of your design, hone
your anagramming skills and increase your
vocabulary with each use. Select any dictionary;
set the level of difficulty; choose letter
frequencies and values; analyze your games, step
by step, as well as producing text game reports
with all the best moves listed; save games.
Review your games and learn what moves you could
have made, train yourself to excel whilst having
fun!
WinGhost
1.1
Play the
ghost word game against WinGhost, try to avoid
spelling words of four or more letters. You move
first by typing a letter, you and WinGhost take
turns adding a letter to the end until someone
completes a word, at which point that player
loses. Each letter must lead toward an English
word. Proper nouns are not allowed. Remember, if
you complete a word of four or more letters, you
lose! WinGhost comes with a professional
installer.
E-Puzzle
Book Reader 1.0
Welcome to
the world of E-Puzzle Books, the computerized
version of those small puzzle magazines you can
find at your local news stand. E-Puzzle Books
contain a large variety of word, number, logic
and visual puzzles. There are word puzzles like
Cryptograms and Word Scrambles; Number puzzles
like "All-are-Equal" and "Choose-Your-Operators"
and Logical Games like "Mail Express" and
"Logical Golf". This E-Puzzle Book Reader comes
with 2 books, but more are available in the
E-Puzzle Book Library found on the Reasonable
Games website. Some books are free, others
require you to be a member of the Reasonable
Games website.
WinJumble
1.6
WinJumble
is an anagram finder and word unscrambler, it
accepts input of two through thirty-one letters
and finds (almost) all of the English words that
can be made from the letters. WinJumble knows
about 376,000 English words and can help you (1)
Find word anagrams (try senator and see what
word follows it in the list), (2) Unscramble
jumbled words (try aeiouqs).
Countdown
To Solution 2.0
Countdown
to Solution is a program which solves the UK TV
game show 'Countdown'. The user inputs up to
seven letters and the program generates as many
words as possible from these letters. A
dictionary of several thousand words is
available as a separate download and users can
easily edit and upgrade the dictionary to
satisfy their lexical desires.
Classic
WordZap 2.20
Classic
WordZap is a Freeware word game where you race
your computer opponent to create the most unique
words from a given set of letters. When
opponents make the same word, it is zapped from
both lists. This is a re-mastered version of the
game that was widely distributed in Microsoft's
Entertainment Pack III. The computer's play
adapts to your skill to keep the game a constant
challenge.
Crickler
Puzzles 1.00
Cricklers
are a new type of word puzzle - a total
re-invention of the crossword puzzle for the
computer age. Cricklers adapt: they become
easier or harder depending on the skill of the
solver. Clues and answers sit side by side, you
can see which letters are vowels, and you get a
reassuring sound when you complete a clue
correctly. Choose from "News Puzzle": A new
crickler puzzle every day based on current news
events - "Crossword": A new crickler crossword
puzzle every day - "Enigma": A classic word
puzzle, decipher two new quotations every day.
Play one or play them all.
WordTrix
1.5
Letters
fall, one at a time, and the user must place
them to form words, either horizontally or
vertically, Tetris-style. WordTrix uses a
dictionary of over 30,000 words, acronyms, and
names. WordTrix has a built-in online high score
system which allows for people to automatically
submit their scores to the official website for
bragging rights.
HangARoo
2.05
Try to save
the smart mouthed Kangaroo from a good old
fashioned neck stretching. A classic game we all
played as kids - Hang Man - has undergone a
major face lift with NCBuy's slick HangARoo. The
object is simple ... guess the phrases by
selecting letters from the alphabet to fill in
the slots. If you make too many errors, you know
what happens next - the cute Kangaroo will be
earning his wings. Luckily, even if you do send
the 'roo to the outback in the sky, you won't
feel too guilty. His quick wit and smart tongue
will sometimes have you begging to kill him off.
Darren's
Scrabble 1.1
Darren's
Scrabble for up to four players, includes a
dictionary with almost 3000 words and a
dictionary editor.
Josho for
Windows 2.03
In Josho
for Windows you try to determine what secret
word Josho has thought of and at the same time
Josho tries to guess your secret word. You
obtain information about Josho's secret word by
supplying Josho with "test" words - Josho will
tell you how many letters in your test word also
appear in his secret word. Josho will also try
to guess your secret word using test words. Use
the built-in "Word Worksheet" to help you keep
track of letters and to help suggest test words.
Who's smarter - you or your computer? Find out
with a quick round of Josho for Windows!
WordScramble 1.0
This is a
word scramble game with around 3500 words - You
are presented with a list of ten words, chosen
randomly from the program's dictionary and then
scrambled. Beside each word is an edit box for
you to type in what you think the correct word
is - fill in all ten then click on 'Check' to
find out if your answers are right!
WordSearch
1.0
WordSearch
is a game based on the popular board game
Boggle(TM)and you play against the computer. It
"learns" as you play and adds new words that you
find to the built in dictionary so you must be
careful about misspellings! You can edit the
dictionary with a text editor to add or delete
words. It is text-based, which means it has no
fancy graphics, and that it runs easily and fast
even on old systems. Runs on Win95, Win98, WinME,
Win2K.
Words of
Fortune 3.72
Looking for
a game to challenge your vocabulary? Or planning
to challenge a friend? Words of Fortune is a
very popular and challenging word game which
allows you to play alone, in tournament or in
practice mode, or play with a friend in
tournament mode. Similar to wheel of fortune but
has tons of features to provide you with hours
of fun and amusement. Different levels of
challenges. 7 challenging categories (Random,
Famous People, Phrase, Places, General,
Technical, SAT/GRE). Only game that has a
dedicated Word Category for SAT/GRE students.
Make your own category and custom word list to
play with. Lots more features!
eWords 1.0
This is a
word game that can be played locally, or the
moves can be sent automatically by e-mail.
Hangkid 2.1
An
educational and interactive word game, based on
the traditional hangman theme where the player
uses a panel of letters to guess a mystery word
with the help of a pictorial clue. The game may
be played in several language modes; You can
create your own word and picture databases; you
can create new language dictionaries. Under the
"competition" mode you can play more types of
games and you can save your results under TOP10
in all game modes. Includes the following
languages: Dutch, English, French, Fijian,
German, Italian, Hungarian, Japanese, Maori,
Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tongan.
Jumble
3.5.0
Jumble 3.0
is a word game in which your task is to
unscramble a familiar catchphrase. For each
letter in the phrase you get from three to six
choices. You must pick the right ones to recover
the jumbled phrase. Configurable phrase lists!
Five time limit options! Four difficulty levels!
Whirlwords
1.0.2
Whirlwords
is based on the familiar pencil-and-paper word
chain puzzles that require you to connect two
words by a series of steps in which you change
one letter at a time. Our version extends the
concept by providing six types of transitions
from one word to the next instead of only one.
Whirlwords comes with more than 100 puzzles in
order of increasing difficulty. It also features
a nifty graphical interface, a built-in editor
so that you can construct your own puzzles,
complete on-line help, and a vocabulary of more
than 5,000 words.
Hangman 3D
1.5
This is a
FREE 3D hangman game. You have to guess a word
letter by letter, and each wrong answer brings
your 3D hangman closer to death. The game
includes two different word lists with tons of
words (45,408 English words, 75,320 German
words). Latin and Italian word lists available
on home page.
Word Search Puzzles! Online
A real-time
live word search puzzle, every time you visit
the page you will see completely different and
unique puzzles. Don'tn like the one you get?
Press the refresh button on your browser and see
a new one.
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