CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh . An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com .
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This letter grid for mirror-flashed code (from
The Girl of Ghost Mountain by Joseph Allan Dunn, 1921) can serve as a Boggle puzzle.
We found several five-letter words relating to: an obstinate person; a collector of dirty water; a swelling protuberance; a portable illumination; another word for "cusk"; a second growth of hay in one season; a monetary unit replaced by the forint; and a plate for consecrated bread.
Here are all 18 words we think are contained within the grid (including archaic ones). Highlight the black to reveal the text: bigly, bigot, bilge, bilgy, bulge, bulgy, glims, gowks, newly, oaten, paten, pengo, rowen, torch, torsk, works, wrote, zorch
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 14
• 8-letter words: 1
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
7-letter words:
• beached
• flatbed
8-letter words:
• flatbeds
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them? One of the 7-letter words sounds like the C-word.
• 7-letter words: 13
• 8-letter words: 3
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
7-letter words:
• auklets
• seaward
8-letter words:
• beltways
• warstles
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them? The ten-letter word may take some time to unscramble.
• 7-letter words: 15
• 8-letter words: 8
• 10-letter words: 1
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
7-letter words:
• amblers
• lambers
8-letter words:
• clambers
• subclans
10-letter words:
• unscramble
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 9
• 8-letter words: 3
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
7-letter words:
• begrime
• mispage
8-letter words:
• begrimes
• semiarid
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them? The 9-letter word is most mysterious.
• 7-letter words: 17
• 8-letter words: 6
• 9-letter words: 1
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
7-letter words:
• acarine
• purines
8-letter words:
• acarines
• tacrines
9-letter words:
• obscurest
This puzzle grid contains several big words, including one as blue as the sky. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 16
• 8-letter words: 4
• 9-letter words: 2
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
7-letter words:
• catenae
• sateens
8-letter words:
• cerulean
• retackle
9-letter words:
• ceruleans
• reengages
Today's puzzle grid, an Emily Dickinson quotation, appears over a dear reader's bookcase.
There's an 8-letter word that means unconfident.
There's a 9-letter word that refers to plants with four petals.
There's a 7-letter word that refers to fig trees, and another that belongs in the kitchen.
• 7-letter words: 15
• 8-letter words: 6
• 9-letter words: 1
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
7-letter words:
• censure
• mincier
8-letter words:
• crucifer
• missuses
9-letter words:
• crucifers
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 7
• 8-letter words: 3
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
7-letter words:
• cleanse
• decoyer
8-letter words:
• crayoned
• lewdness
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 15
• 8-letter words: 4
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
7-letter words:
• chasten
• isotach
8-letter words:
• chiliasm
• seldomly
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 11
• 8-letter words: 4
• 9-letter words: 1
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
7-letter words:
• dummies
• slimily
8-letter words:
• slimiest
• sweatily
9-letter words:
• slummiest
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 13
• 8-letter words: 4
• 9-letter words: 2
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
7-letter words:
• aftosas
• fossate
8-letter words:
• floppies
• nappiest
9-letter words:
• flappiest
• floppiest
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 14
• 8-letter words: 6
• 9-letter words: 1
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
7-letter words:
• beshout
• outfeel
8-letter words:
• chestier
• techiest
9-letter words:
• touchiest
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 31
• 8-letter words: 11
• 9-letter words: 1
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
7-letter words:
• antired
• punkest
8-letter words:
• canities
• niteries
9-letter words:
• punitions
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 13
• 8-letter words: 2
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
7-letter words:
• biogens
• halalas
8-letter words:
• clonings
• halogens
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Attleboro Odlox writes:
I found "clonings" as my first word and that was enough of an achievement to earn me three hours of bad television. Or so I rationalized. If cloning is not there, don't tell me. I didn't click on the answers. As soon as I saw I-N-G-S I knew the God of the Grid wouldn't be so cruel as to give us that convenient coda without providing at least one word to pin it to.
Nada writes:
Are gabions the elemental particles of insubstantial talk?
Prof. Oddfellow responds:
Good call, Nada!
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 11
• 8-letter words: 3
• 9-letter words: 1
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
7-letter words:
• awaiter
• naivete
8-letter words:
• antirape
• laterize
9-letter words:
• parietals
This puzzle grid asks, "Is there life on marshmallows?" The grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 27
• 8-letter words: 7
• 9-letter words: 1
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
7-letter words:
• aileron
• reshoes
8-letter words:
• ailerons
• roseries
9-letter words:
• filterers
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 10
• 8-letter words: 1
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
7-letter words:
• acetose
• oestrin
8-letter words:
• chaplets
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
• 7-letter words: 12
• 8-letter words: 5
• 9-letter words: 1
All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.
Click to display solutions
7-letter words:
• absolve
• oversad
8-letter words:
• absolved
• dawdlers
9-letter words:
• absolvers
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This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them? One of the 7-letter words sounds like the C-word.
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them? The ten-letter word may take some time to unscramble.
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them? The 9-letter word is most mysterious.
This puzzle grid contains several big words, including one as blue as the sky. Can you find them?
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
This puzzle grid asks, "Is there life on marshmallows?" The grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
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This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?
This puzzle grid contains several big words. Can you find them?