Scrabble/Other Word Games

Word Lists
On this page you will find lots of useful word lists for Scrabble, Literati, Scrabble Zing, Upwords, Boggle or any other word game. There are over 50 different word lists including 2 letter words, 3 letter words and highest scoring Scrabble words while other lists can help you when you're struggling with bad letters in a game like Scrabble such as words with all consonants in, words with lots of vowels in, Q words without a U after and many more. There is also a Dictionary containing over 170,000 words.

Scrabble Solver
This scrabble solver finds all the 2 to 8 letter words from the letters you enter and supports the use of blank tiles. It also gives you the highest scoring words and recommended words to use.

Anagram Solver
This anagram solver finds all the 2 to 12 letter words from the letters you enter.

Word List Maker
This program is used to generate word lists and can be used in Scrabble, Literati, Scrabble Zing, Upwords or any other similar word game. The program takes a sequence of up to 8 letters and makes a list of all the 2 to 8 letter words containing your letters.

Crossword Solver
This crossword solver gives you all the words that can fill the gaps when you have missing letters in a word.

Word Grid
Word Grid is a free online single player word game. Letters appear in the top left corner of the grid and you have to place them onto the grid to try and make horizontal and vertical words. The minimum word length begins at 4 letters but this goes up after you reach 25, 50 and 75 words. There are bonuses for using harder letters and making longer words. The aim of the game is to score as many points you can and to make as many words as you can.

Word Pyramids
Word Pyramids is a free online single player word game. You begin with 2 letters at the top of the pyramid. On each word you have to add another letter and rearrange them to form a new word to try and fill up the word pyramid. There are 5 pyramids in each game and the aim is to score as many points as you can. There are 2 skill levels, the easy version goes up to 7 letter words and the harder version goes up to 10 letter words.

Yahoo! Games Backdoor
This page gives you links for getting into full rooms on Yahoo! Games such as Pool, Chess and Literati.

Chess

Chess Puzzles
This is a collection of checkmate puzzles. There are sets of 12 puzzles for beginners, intermediate and advanced players.

Chess Openings
From this page you will find links to my various openings pages. There are pages about the Blackburne Gambit, Budapest Gambit, Hippopotamus Defense, Ruy Lopez, Slav Defense and St George's Defense and a collection of Unusual Openings. In total there are over 700 example games involving these openings.

Chess Opening Statistics
These are statistics compiled from over 2 million games. It shows for each opening and variation what percentage of matches were won by white, black and were drawn. Also included are white's and black's best and worst 10 openings statistically and what are the most and least drawn openings. There are statistics for nearly 300 different openings and variations.

Chess
Play Chess online against a computer opponent.

How to Beat Chess Computers
This page gives tips and advice on how to beat Chess Computers. It gives advice on what to do and what not to do against Chess Computers and includes example games that demonstrate a few key points.

Films

www.films100.com
This website contains lots of film, actor/actress, director, franchise and Oscar lists, statistics and rankings. There are lists such as the top 100 films, actors, actresses, directors and franchises based on rankings given by users of the website, full lists of all the nominations and winners of every Best Picture Oscar, Best Leading Actor/Actress Oscar, Best Supporting Actor/Actress Oscar and Best Director Oscar and many other lists and statistics.