045 – Puzzle Genres — Fonts puzzle — Word puzzles Word games/puzzles are spoken, paper-&-pencil or board games often designed to test ability with language or to explore its properties. ● Scrabble There are a number of different types of this game, with every game having the same end goal : try to spell or form a word using the letters that you are given. Each player will be given set letters and will have to use them to create words, generally on a grid, and usually intersecting with other letters and words that have already been played. It is a great way to test not only spelling, but also vocabulary skills and even thinking skills. As players place more and more letters on the board, these games tend to become much more difficult, as there are fewer spaces that are left for players to play their letters. ● Word Search For adults or children, these puzzles require players to try to find specific words in a jumble of other letters. The letters are usually laid out in a traditional grid, with letters neatly in rows and columns, which allows players to quickly and easily find the words they are looking for. Generally speaking, players can look horizontally, vertically, and diagonally when searching for words. Words can be written forwards and backwards, which can make these puzzles difficult. There are some types of word search puzzles where the user is able to make turns when circling a word, which means that they don’t have to try to stay in a straight line. Puzzle Genres — Fonts puzzle ● Page 1 of 7 ● Crossword These are word puzzles where the user must fill in empty squares with the letters of a word that fits the listed clue. Puzzlers must not only be able to come up with the answer to the problem off the top of their head, but also must be able to spell the word correctly, which can be difficult for some players. The words all connect with other words in the puzzle, which can make it a bit easier for players to figure out the correct answer. In addition to having blank spaces for the words and letters to be written on the sheet, these puzzles also have blacked out squares, which serve to separate words and are used to fill in empty spots on the puzzle. ● Semantics As science, semantics is the science of word meaning. As game, semantics utilise the shared knowledge of players in terms of language. Mad Libs, Blankety Blank and Codenames are all semantic games. ● Upwords … is a board game invented by Elliot Rudell. It is similar to Scrabble or Words With Friends in that players build words using letter tiles on a gridded gameboard. Puzzle Genres — Fonts puzzle ● Page 2 of 7 ● Scattergories … a creative-thinking category-based party game originally published by Parker Brothers in 1988. The objective of the 2-to-6-player game is to score points by uniquely naming objects within a set of categories, given an initial letter, within a time limit. The game is based on a traditional game known as Tutti Frutti, Jeu du Baccalauréat or Stadt Land Fluss. ● Fortunately, Unfortunately … is a word game first played at conventions of the National Puzzlers' League in the late 1980s. It was invented and introduced by one-time NPL president David Scott Marley. A version of the game - Good News, Bad News - was popularized by the BBC radio. The game is best played in groups with an odd number of people. It is often played on Internet forum ● Spelling This type of puzzle is a great option for adults to compete with children, as they all require to work on their spelling skills. It provides a wonderful opportunity for children to learn more about definitions and vocabulary. ● Anagram Also published under names such Snatch and Word Making and Taking, it is a tile-based word game that involves rearranging letter tiles to form new words from one already formed. The game pieces consist of a set of tiles with letters on them. Another variant is Jumbled. Puzzle Genres — Fonts puzzle ● Page 3 of 7 ● Ambigram These puzzles consist of a word, symbolic representation, or piece of art that can be viewed in different ways and interpreted according to how it is viewed. They are generally an exercise not only in thought and determining the word that is represented, but also in trying to read the word from a variety of different angles to see how many ways it can be read. ● Rebus … combines the use of illustrated pictures with individual letters to depict words and/or phrases. For example : the word "been" might be depicted by a rebus showing an illustrated bumblebee next to the letter "n". ● Cryptogram This is type of puzzle that consists of a short piece of encrypted text. ● Modern word games As part of the modern "Golden Age" of board games, designers have created a variety of newer, non-traditional word games, often with more complex rules. Games like Codenames, Decrypto, and Anomia were all designed after 2010, and have earned widespread acclaim. Mobile games like Words with Friends and Word Connect have also brought word games to modern audiences. Words with Friends Puzzle Genres — Fonts puzzle ● Page 4 of 7 — Number puzzles Number puzzles have specific set of rules you first has to figure out the pattern being followed and then answer the puzzle according to it. Number puzzles are a part of many competitive examinations, helping to improve logical thinking in an entertaining way. Math is fun ! ● Magic Square In a magic square, every row, column and each of the diagonals add up to the same total. ● Sudoku … is a logic-based, combinatorial number- placement puzzle. In classic sudoku, the objective is to fill a 9×9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 subgrids that compose the grid (also called "boxes", "blocks" or "regions") contain all of the digits from 1 to 9. The puzzle setter provides a partially completed grid, which for a well-posed puzzle has a single solution. ● KenKen KenKen and KenDoku are trademarked names for a style of arithmetic and logic puzzle invented in 2004 by Japanese math teacher Tetsuya Miyamoto, who intended the puzzles to be an instruction-free method of training the brain. The objective is to fill the grid in with the digits 1 through 6 following a list of rules. Puzzle Genres — Fonts puzzle ● Page 5 of 7 ● Kakuro Kakuro is a kind of logic puzzle that is often referred to as a mathematical transliteration of the crossword. Kakuro puzzles are regular features in many math-and-logic puzzle publications across the world. In 1966 ● Tower of Hanoi … is a mathematical game or puzzle. It consists of three rods and a number of disks of different sizes, which can slide onto any rod. The puzzle starts with the disks in a neat stack in ascending order of size on one rod, the smallest at the top, thus making a conical shape. The objective of the puzzle is to move the entire stack to another rod, obeying the following simple rules. ● Hashiwokakero (Bridges Game) … is played on a rectangular grid with no standard size, although the grid itself is not usually drawn. Some cells start out with (usually encircled) numbers from 1 to 8 inclusive - these are the "islands". The rest of the cells are empty. The goal is to connect all of the islands by drawing a series of bridges following certain criteria. ● Dominoes The traditional set of dominoes contains one unique piece for each possible combination of two ends with zero to six spots, and is known as a double-six set because the highest-value piece has six pips on each end (the "double six"). Domino tiles (also known as "bones"), are normally twice as long as they are wide, featuring a line in the middle to divide them Puzzle Genres — Fonts puzzle ● Page 6 of 7 visually into two squares. There are several ways to play Dominoes, each with their specific rules. ● Verbal arithmetic … is a type of mathematical game consisting of a mathematical equation among unknown numbers, whose digits are represented by letters. Places to play single-player scrabble online for free : ScrabbleGames.Info FunkyPotato.com Pogo.com Scrabble Sprint – on Poki.com Scrabble Blast - on WiredArcade.com Lexulous.com PlayClassic.Games AOL.com/Games Places to download for free recreational-mathematic puzzles : education.com wodb.ca mathpickle.com Source : Wikipedia Puzzle Genres — Fonts puzzle ● Page 7 of 7 .