TwoTallSocks

Babble is a fun little word hunt game that I saw linked from Signals vs Noise. Each day it displays a new puzzle, and you can play it throughout the day, adding words to your list as you find them. The one with the highest amount of points at the end of the day is the winner.

I didn’t understand how to play at first, but once you get the hang of it, it is fun and easy.

Basically you just look at the letters to try to find a word. As long as the letters are touching, they are valid choices.

Here is a diagram showing how I found the word “EASTER”.

You can only use the same letter once per word, but you can use the letters over again with another word. For instance in my example, your next word could be “EAST” using the same letters as before, without the “ER” on the end.

As you find words, enter them into the text box at the bottom, and they will be added to your score, on the right. You can also see each word you have already found, the number of letters in that word, and the amount of points you scored. Plus click on the question mark to look up that word on dictionary.com to see the definition of it.

The design of the site is really nice too. Very minimal and simple, no big flashing banners anywhere, just a couple of well placed ads for Boggle games on the right. It actually looks like something that 37Signals themselves could have designed.

My nickname on the game is “Deker”, so you can compare your score with mine.