Appendix B: Web Sites for Puzzlers
Funster
A popular Web site for wordplay created by the author of this book. Includes multiplayer versions of some of the games presented here, including What's in a Name? and Word Know-It-All. Compete and chat with players from around the world.
All-Star Puzzles
A nice collection of word games, including Anagrams and Cryptograms.
Braingle
A Web site devoted to providing entertainment for people who like mental challenges. It has a range of games, including many word puzzles.
Discovery School's Puzzlemaker
Online software to create your own word puzzles. Brought to you by the Discovery Channel.
Fun-with-words.com
A large collection of word games including Hangman, Anagrams, Rebuses, and many other forms of wordplay.
OneLook Dictionary Search
Searches a growing list of online dictionaries and presents the results on one page. Allows you to search for a wildcard pattern (for example, all of the words ending with act.)
Online tool to find words that rhyme. Can be used to create Inky Pinky puzzles like the ones in this book.
RiddleNut
A huge collection of riddles.
Thinks.com
A collection of fun games and pastimes, including a large wordplay section.
PhoneSpell
A simple Web site that will tell you what your phone number spells. Similar to the Phone Numbers puzzles in this book.
Wordsmith.org
Includes the Internet Anagram Server that will anagram any given text. For example, it will rearrange the letters in your name to spell words.
Yahoo! Games
One of the most popular places for online games. Includes a collection of word games.
