I've spent the last hour playing word games and reading web comics.
While I don't play games like the uber-popular Angry Birds, I do play a lot of short games. My top games are word games and puzzle games, making the Facebook games, Scramble and Bejeweled, the top of my play list.
Love Word Games. I really cannot say this enough.
In real word games, here are my favorites! (A list and it isn't even 10 for Tuesday.)
1. Scrabble. I have to admit that I get kind of scary competitive with this one. My husband beat me the last time we played and I was more than a bit ticked off. Whoops. I usually score pretty high, but I have never managed to use all 7 tiles at once. My family plays anything goes as long as it doesn't use a foreign character or accent mark, which makes my polyglot tendencies pretty useful. We also use a double set of tiles. It might be simple, but quizzes is just too much fun on a triple word score.
2. Boggle. I used to have keychain boggle and I would play it on the way to work all the time until the plastic casing got so scratched up and there was too much condensation to read the tiles. I should get another one. It was a good way to spend a few minutes every day. When I lived downstairs from my friends, T&E, we would play Boggle a lot. We're fairly evenly matched, so it was always fun without being a constant blow out win for any one person.
3. Quick Word. Quick Word is like a word game for everybody. There are different categories: Blue, Green, Pink and Grey, and within those categories there are different tasks. Blue is anything associated with a certain category such as Names of Banks or Anything Found in a Sea Port. We were pretty flexible with that, because one of us (yes, I'm looking at you) is the queen of adding men/women/children and wood/glass/metal/fiberglass to everything. It's true, because they are there. Green is one item for each category matching the letter indicated by the spinner. Pink and Grey are more traditional word games like making words from a word or phrase or starting with or containing certain letters.
4. Quiddler. This game is great for both people who have extensive vocabulary and those who don't, because it rewards you for coming up with either the longest word or the most words. It is a card-based word game, where you get a different number of cards each round and you make words using 2 or more cards. The cards have different point values based on their difficulty to use. The Q, for example, is worth more points than the QU card. This game also has a rule that we've mostly adopted for all word games of you can use a dictionary, but only when it is NOT your turn. It keeps the game moving really well.
If you have any word games to recommend, feel free to pipe up! I'd love to find a new favorite!
