Kikkerland offers a variety of cute-but-sleek accessories for home and office: the Fly Wall Clock, which features a picture of a fly on a screen door imprinted onto a fly swatter; an assortment of mechanical wind-up creatures; games, including decks of semi-translucent cards; and a Foldable Bottle Holder Rack, useful for wine aficionados.
You can find my favorite Kikkerland products — the Silver Ocean Globe and the Business Card Size Tool Set — at Ship the Web.
Posted December 7, 2005 by Mariva in decor, fun, gadgets, games, gifts
Jumble is my favorite newspaper game — and it’s even better online (requires Macromedia Shockwave). Unscrambling each word, and then using the circled letters of those words to unscramble the punch line of the goofy joke — the whole thing gives me a thrill. (Sometimes I cheat a little.)
More word games:
Reference.com Fun & Games
Yahoo word games
wordplays
WordCentral.com
FunBrain.com Kids Center: Words
Vocabulary University
Merriam-Webster word games
east of the web word games
BlackDog’s word games
Etymologic: "the toughest word game on the web"
more…
Posted November 16, 2005 by Mariva in education, fun, games, resources
After posting the satirical Katrina Blame Game™, I saved a copy of the original Word document (yes, I created that thing in Word), deleted the text and created a blank board game template:
Word - PDF - JPG
All you need are some playing pieces, a die (or a random number generator*), and you’re good to go.
* To simulate a standard 6-sided die, enter the following into the Randomizer form:
- set of numbers: 1
- numbers per set: 1
- from: 1
- to: 6
- Leave the other fields as is and click "Randomize Now!"
Virginia Johnson of the Central Rappahannock Regional Library has an excellent board game-making resource for kids. Board game enthusiast Britt Scharringhausen has a resource for serious gamers.
You can also create your own Windows-based board game via BoardBOSS software. For examples, browse the game catalog for BoardBOSS-created games you can play for free.
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Posted October 20, 2005 by Mariva in education, fun, games, resources
