Killer Questions – Favorite Word Games
Are you obsessed with playing word games on your phone? Most of the Writers Who Kill are, too. Here are our respective favorite games:
Molly MacRae: Boggle, Wordle, and a game my dad and I played where we’d trick each other into saying something that sounded like thank you so we could then say you’re welcome. It worked best if we let days or weeks or months go by to lull the other into unsuspecting. As an example, one day, I pretended to forget what armored vehicles are called and asked Dad, saying, “You know what I mean—the ones with the treads.” “Tanks,” Dad said. Dad started the game by giving me a math problem one day—“What’s 5Q plus 5Q?”
Mary Dutta: The NY Times Spelling Bee and Wordle
Debra H. Goldstein: The NY Times Mini and Midi Crossword Puzzles and Wordle
Shari Randall: Every morning I do the Wordle, and my hubby and I do Connections at lunchtime. For group games, I adore Scrabble, and even though I don’t have a competitive bone in my body, if you play Scrabble with me, look out! I play to win.
Lori Roberts Herbst: Cryptogram. Addictive and fun.
Grace Topping: Scrapple
Korina Moss: I play the NY Times daily games – Connections, Wordle, and Letter Boxed.
K.M. Rockwood: NYT crossword (not that I finish it often)
Margaret Hamilton: Pictionary
Elaine Douts: Word Search and Cryptograms in the weekly newspaper.
Susan Van Kirk: Connections and Strands (NYT)
Kait Carson: Wordle, Spelling Bee.
Sarah E. Burr: I do enjoy Wheel of Fortune, which I guess is a glorified Hangman.
Martha Reed: Completing my current manuscript (joke).
James M. Jackson: Wordle—when I remember to play.
Heather Weidner: Scrabble, Wordle, and crossword puzzles
Annette Dashofy: Wordle
Those all sound like games we as authors and thus word-lovers would enjoy. But scrapple?
ReplyDeleteI need to add some of these to my list.
ReplyDeleteThere is an OEC geographical connections that I do. Is this the same one? It lists several countries and products in a grid that are exported from them The products have to be matched up with the countries.
ReplyDeleteI used to play Boggle with some friends at work on our breaks. We also played Perquackey which is a bunch of dice that are shaken out and words are formed from the letters that come out on top. I still have the game but haven’t played it for a long time.
My mother would carry a puzzle book, primarily crossword, with her and worked on them if she had to wait for an appt. (pre phone or computer)
Both she and I also would look around and select a word from anything written that we saw and make other words from it. In the Dell puzzle books it is called word mine.
I still do it when I am waiting around for someone or something or in one place for a period of time. You don’t need to carry anything with you, just your brain.
Molly, I see where the humor in your books come from, was your father also a writer?
My post above should have been connectrade, not connections
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