Word Games

I love word games.  I love to play Scrabble http://www.scrabble.com/.  I am not a great player, but I still love to play. I am so pleased to be able to play Scrabble with many of my Facebook friends. I usually have several games going at once. I have some other word games I play:  On Facebook, I play Words with Friends https://www.facebook.com/WordsWithFriends.  On my computer, I have  Wordox  http://www.wordox.com/, similar to Scrabble, and Word Yacht http://www.hoylegaming.com/hoyle-games.aspx?gclid=CO6pkJuY8LECFelgTAodikoA_A
which is a Yahtzee style word game.

I love crossword puzzles. When I was a child, an uncle would visit on Sunday night to use our encyclopedias, dictionaries, and atlases to help him to finish the New York Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle.  I grew up thinking that that was what you do: complete it. When I went to college, I found people who worked on Sunday and Monday to complete the New York Times Sunday Crossword.  I thought that was what you were suppose to do. It is the hardest of the New York Time Crossword puzzles. And, I thought you worked until you completed it. I did not know otherwise.

There was a time a coworker accessed the daily puzzle on line, and printed it for us.  I was embarassed that most days I zipped through the puzzle, although, sometimes on Friday, I had to use references.

About the time I went to work at the prison in 1995, I made some friends who also loved words, some who were not employed at the prison and some who were. Some of those friends enjoyed working on double crosstics with me.  They loved working on crossword puzzles with me. I did not know that crossword puzzles, and double crosstics were team sports, until then.  But they can be!  That was so much fun!  I miss it.