Starting Words & Strategies… Wordle Cousins are enjoyable games in their own right. And my Wordle blog was so well received that I can’t help offering you tips for playing what I call Wordle Cousins. These are games inspired by … Continue reading
Category Archives: Trivia
Plus, Starting Words for Quordle and Squareword… Wordle hit the media just as we needed some post-pandemic therapy. Today’s blog is an ode to Josh Wardle’s brilliant game, with trivia, tips and especially, tactics to enhance your fun. Distinctive Features … Continue reading
Don the Beachcomber, Trader Vic & Tommy Bahama duke it out! Mai tai tasting is the subject of today’s blog. Join me on an imaginary visit to a tropical island! And along the way, we’ll compete the giants of tiki cocktails … Continue reading
A Klimt Image Appears from a Random Pile of Parts! This Jigsaw Puzzle Assembly blog is the third and last of a series. The first one gave an overview of all modern jigsaw puzzles. The second one described the personalities … Continue reading
Plus A Detailed Comparison of Wentworth and Liberty Puzzles… This blog, Wooden Jigsaw Puzzle Companies, is the second of a three-part series. The first blog gave an overview of modern jigsaw puzzles. The next and final part will show photos … Continue reading
A New Look at a Classic Pastime… Wooden jigsaw puzzles, for most people, first appear when they are a toddler. You may have assembled a brightly colored animal from cutout shapes. Later, in preschool or kindergarten you may have owned … Continue reading
There are still a few more to find! New Scrabble words show how the English language is changing as we use it. Last August I wrote a blog about these changes. I shared with you the quest of Chris Ulicky to … Continue reading
Searching for 300 Words – Can You Help? Scrabble words! Even in the digital age, words have power. And words burst from social media and streaming video all the time. These words both record and enable the changes in our … Continue reading
An Important Update The Scrabble 3 To Make 4 list is one of the ten key word lists for the game of Scrabble. These lists welcome new players to an engrossing pastime and enhance the pleasure of recreational players. Scrabble … Continue reading
Note added January 18, 2023: for a newer version of these word lists, please see the updated blog HERE. This post on Scrabble 2018 presents 10 word lists based on the 6th Edition of The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (I’ve corrected … Continue reading
Santa Fe art will drive you crazy. You’ll go mad if you try to see it all. You will go bonkers if you try to avoid the art, which is everywhere. Also, you’ll be insanely desperate to own dozens, no … Continue reading
Brand charisma is the key quality that propels one person or one product ahead of every competitor. And it goes far beyond an inviting ad for a product. Brand charisma is like a perfect soufflé: it depends on every step being … Continue reading
Trader Joe’s is a public phenomenon with a very private personality. Here’s a story you won’t see anywhere else: data about Trader Joe’s stunning growth, my recollections of its early days, and a photo appreciation of its local presence. No, I … Continue reading
Spam, hacks, phishes, scams – come with a webmaster as he battles alien forces of Evil that threaten to sap your online experience and impurify all of your precious bodily fluids! When he said something like that, General Jack D. … Continue reading
Lint is everywhere in the modern home. Here is my recent journey through the natural home of lint. That home is the clothes dryer in our basement and its associated ducts, a place you might call the Kingdom of Lint. … Continue reading
Annual Report 2015: A good way to start the year 2016 is by reviewing how this website fared last year. As I did last year, I’ll share my self-assessment with you, my readers. ArtChester.net uses the popular web platform WordPress, … Continue reading
Last month a research article about giraffe sounds caught my attention, and you may have seen reports of it as well. It reveals something never before known about one of nature’s most beloved wild animals. Science Fact. Two cognitive biologists from the University of … Continue reading
Richard Feynman was widely hailed as the greatest physicist of the last half of the 20th century. He was a “physicist’s physicist,” meaning that he commanded uncommon respect throughout the physics community, not only for his published research but for … Continue reading
See the later post Scrabble 2023 for the latest Scrabble word lists, based on the 7th Edition 2023 Official Scrabble Players Dictionary. This 2015 blog post is retained for its explanations, its comments, and as an archive. Scrabble Word Lists, this … Continue reading
Scrabble is not one game, but a family of games. Like wine tasting, fantasy football and curio collecting, it can be pursued casually or obsessively. And once you give yourself permission to make it “yours” the possibilities mushroom. Scrabble is … Continue reading