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Easy Online Crossword Puzzles
June 10th, 2011Easy Online Crossword Puzzles Crossword puzzles are a favorite pastime for people all over the world (not just for Scrabble players). Doctors encourage their patients to play word games like crossword puzzles to keep their minds sharp, and people who write for a living often sing the praises of crossword puzzles for getting the creative juices flowing. I like to do a crossword puzzle with my morni...
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How to Make Crossword Puzzles
June 9th, 2011How to Make Crossword Puzzles for Free Online If you’re a teacher, a Sunday School instructor, a tutor, or just an overworked parent trying to find something to keep your kids busy, knowing how to make crossword puzzles is a great skill. My son loves to do crossword puzzles, and when I sit him down with a crossword I created based on his school vocabulary lessons, he doesn’t even real...
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Printable Crossword Puzzles for Free
June 8th, 2011Online Printable Crossword Puzzles for Free I’m a crossword puzzle addict. I got the bug when I was in my early teens, and like lots of other crossword junkies, I came by my addiction honestly. My parents are New York Times subscribers, almost exclusively for the crossword puzzle. They like to relax before and after work by working that famous puzzle together, and as I grew up I became as f...
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Dolch Word Games
June 7th, 2011Dolch Word Games Invented in 1948 by Dr. Edward W. Dolch, the Dolch Word List is a collection of 325 words that must be easily recognized in order to be fluent in the reading of English. Dolch compiled his list of 95 nouns and 220 “service words” by looking at words commonly found in children’s literature of the time. The idea behind this word list is to establish a list of words...
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How to Improve Your Vocabulary
June 6th, 2011How to Improve Your Vocabulary Don’t you hate when someone insults you or hurts your feelings and you can’t think of anything to say? In French, the phrase “L’esprit de l’escalier” describes that moment when you come up with a perfect comeback when it’s too late to deliver it. It’s moments like these when improving your vocabulary can really help. In...
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Pogo.com
April 26th, 2011Pogo.com Pogo is the online gaming entity of popular video game manufacturer Electronic Arts. Pogo.com has a huge fanbase, bragging of millions of unique visitors every day. The first think you’ll notice about Pogo.com is that it is colorful, bright, and friendly on the eyes. Pogo is incredibly easy to navigate, though as I get older I find the bright colors and flashy bits a little hard to ...
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Hasbro
April 25th, 2011Hasbro Hasbro is the second-largest American toy manufacturer, headquartered in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The funny name comes from the company’s origin–in the early 1920s, the Hassenfeld Brothers founded a small textile company. They made textiles exclusively for twenty years before eventually finding their way into the school supply business. From children’s pencil boxes and map...
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CouponChief.com
April 20th, 2011Coupon Chief Website Review A while back, I listed a few retail chains where board game aficionados like Scrabble players could buy games at, and suggested they use coupons from one of these newfangled coupon websites when they made their purchase. It probably sounded like Granny talking, but what Granny probably won’t tell you is that online coupons are easy to print off and available for v...
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Mansions of Madness Release Date
February 14th, 2011Mansions of Madness from Fantasy Flight Games is supposed to have a release date of sometime in Q1 of 2011, so the clock is ticking. I know that some games stores are going to have special preview events on the weekend of February 19 and 20, so the release date can’t be too far away now. I’m hoping to be able to order copies of Mansions of Madness by next week or the week after. IR...
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Scrabble News Headlines February 2011
February 13th, 2011I thought it would be interesting to take a look at what kind of news coverage our favorite game was receiving in the month of February. Here are links to news articles about Scrabble along with my commentary. (I didn’t comment on all of the articles–just some of them.) Tri-City students prep for 2nd national Scrabble championship – Jacob Sivonen and Will Stone, two junior high ...
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