| - By Lance Hemenway | | | | increased dramatically. |
| They're almost everywhere. Hiding within small | | | | In regards to online gaming, the situation is similar. |
| libraries, or huddled in the dark-frightened of the | | | | Downloadable games continue to find their way |
| daylight. -People who play word games; the rare | | | | into almost every household. And it is in this |
| and talented individual who actually delights in the | | | | respect that word games have really found their |
| flirtation between language and entertainment. But | | | | niche. Computer gamers have spent thousands of |
| who are these bizarre people? Why do they play | | | | their free hours online stimulating their little brains |
| these word oriented games? And are the rest of | | | | till their heart's content. |
| us in any real danger? | | | | For example, the game "Love Letters," a new |
| Word games have existed for a long time. | | | | title available on Jenkat Games. ( The game |
| Looking for words and phrases in a series of | | | | combines the flavor of Scrabble with the |
| mixed up letters has been with us since | | | | framework of your typical video game |
| civilizations have been able to put pen to papyrus. | | | | experience. Released just in time for Valentine's |
| Anagrams, palindromes, lexigrams, and puns have | | | | Day, Love letters allows players to search about |
| all found their way into our lives at one time or | | | | in a box of candy hearts, searching for the |
| another. People like being able to engage their | | | | proper letters to spell words provided them on a |
| minds while being entertained. Of course, there | | | | list. The farther you proceed, the more words |
| are some people who prefer not to be bothered | | | | you have to assemble. |
| with "Intellectual stimulation" during their | | | | Word games are staging a bit of a comeback. |
| entertainment. -And those people watch "Cops." | | | | And in many ways, they never lost favor at all. |
| For some time, games like Boggle, or Scrabble, | | | | Many people have discovered that word games |
| did seem to disappear into the distant haze of our | | | | have increased their ability to focus, and |
| early childhood memories. And it was true, that | | | | concentrate for longer periods of time. Gamers |
| during the immense growth spurt of the video | | | | have shown their love for word games in all of its |
| game industry, puzzle games, in general, officially | | | | various forms, while game manufactures attempt |
| lost favor with the public nation wide. But in the | | | | to feed the growing demand. Word games are |
| last few years, with the growing amount of | | | | not only a big part of gaming as a whole, they |
| imported board games from countries like | | | | are a growing part of video-gaming as well. And |
| Germany, board games have been through a | | | | that fact doesn't seem to be changing anytime |
| renaissance of sorts. Sales of board games in | | | | soon. |
| general, and more specifically, word games, have | | | | |