Words and Word Games

I love words, and have since I do not know when.  I love word games, and have since I do not know when.

When I was a child, I had a maternal uncle, Joe, and a paternal uncle, Voss, who loved crossword puzzles. Uncle Joe used to enter the crossword puzzle contest of a regional newspaper. I am not sure he ever won.

Uncle Voss did the daily crossword puzzle, and the Sunday New York Times puzzle. He lived with my paternal grandparents until they died, and then he lived with us until he built his own house. But every Sunday night, he spent time at our house working on the New York Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle. He used our encyclopedias (we had three:  Britannica Junior, World Book and yearly updates and Golden Book), and dictionaries (Britannica and a couple of others.)  We also had a Britannica Atlas and many other atlases, US Geographical Survery maps, and map books. I think Uncle Voss would have loved the internet, for its access to information.

My dad wanted us to have all these resources. He loved words, books, and maps. My dad loved learning and information. I am so thankful he did, because he passed that on to me. I love words. I love word puzzles. I love maps. I love learning.

Uncle Joe was my favorite uncle, and Uncle Voss was my next favorite uncle.  I suppose I got my love of words and word puzzles from my father and these two uncles.

When I first went to college, I met people who would spend days working on the New York Times Sunday puzzle. I thought you were supposed to finish on Sunday. What did I know? I just had an uncle who did that.

When I went to work at the Montford unit, there was a co-worker, Joe, who loved words and word puzzles. We talked about words a lot. We worked on puzzles a lot. The director liked crossword puzzles. There was a time when an administravie assistant printed off the daily crossword and we all worked on it.

I also like double crosstic word puzzles. I was in a relationship with someone who liked words and word puzzles. We did the daily jumble, and the daily crossword. We worked on double crosstic puzzles together, at home, with friends, or when we were traveling.

I did not realize that word games and puzzles were team activities, but some of them are. I learned that when I went to work at the Montford Unit, because some of my co-workers liked to work word puzzles with help. I also learned that from my relationship with the man who liked word games.

I have access to several word games on the computer.  I had a disk of Hoyle Games that I loaded onto my computer, and there are many word games in that arcade.

I have signed onto POGO games, so can play Scrabble against the computer.

I am engaged in several Scrabble games on Facebook, and several Words with Friends games on Facebook

I like words, word games, and word puzzles.