From Scrabble to Wordle, word puzzle games are a firm favorite amongst gamers, thanks to their mind-training capabilities and the sense of pure elation when you nail your lexicon mastery. So, to help ...

We take the alphabet for granted, having become so accustomed to using it for reading and writing. Consider, though, that all writing systems started out as pictures of things. Our letters are ...

In various previous posts, I have discussed the role of word puzzles in stimulating different components of "verbal thinking," which can be defined, for the present purpose, as the formation of ...