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  • I love word games, though (MyWord is a great word-making cardgame like this a friend of mine found at ToysRUs).

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Fun little word game, like Tetris meets BookWorm 2006

  • Another trial at word-making is given, and the one who, after a definite time, has made the most words out of his syllables, wins a prize.

    Entertainments for Home, Church and School Frederica Seeger

  • So she presently scattered anagrams over the table, reminding Peter of some of their battles with word-making in the long winter nights, and they had a half-hearted game, in which

    Sisters Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • Yet most writers reach out for fine writin 'and will be sophomores to the end of their days; being unmindful of the fact that the simplest and best, as well as the hardest, way of word-making consists in the selection of short, pungent Saxon sentences.

    Idle Comments 1905

  • Do not look for word-making from me; I never knew much about it, and I can still less try my hand at it now in my old age.

    Letters Liszt, Franz 1893

  • Beginning with an illustrated alphabet of large letters, the little reader goes forward by easy stages to word-making, reading, counting, writing, and finally to the most popular nursery rhymes and tales.

    By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson 1867

  • Beginning with an illustrated alphabet of large letters, the little reader goes forward by easy stages to word-making, reading, counting, writing, and finally to the most popular nursery rhymes and tales.

    Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia Walter Paget 1867

  • As we may learn from the order of word-making, wherein _love_ precedeth _lovable_.

    Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849

  • By enjoying this game on the computer, there is no messy set up and no need to worry about the board being disrupted; there is just a whole lot of word-making fun.

    All articles at Blogcritics 2009

  • Comically, the game uses drums, fading bells, and martial arts-style sound effects to evoke the sense that you're in a word-making fight to the death.

    iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond 2009

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