anagram (13 products)

Alphen 1.0.0 (Shareware, $10.00)

A game for anyone who enjoys a fast-paced word puzzle! Alphen presents you with several words of equal length, one above the other. The only problem is that the letters have been mixed up: the letters are all in their proper positions from left to right, but most of them are in the wrong rows! Your only clue for unscrambling the words is that you are told the category each one belongs to. The first word might be the name of a flower, the second a musical instrument, and so on. Figuring out one word narrows the choice of letters available for those remaining, so each successive word gets easier to solve. But it's a race against time. Alphen starts out easy then gets harder as the time limit goes down in later rounds. The easiest level is suitable for children of about 8-10 years; the hardest will challenge diehard word puzzle fans.

Anagram Plus for Pocket PCs 1.0 (Shareware, $15.00)

The object of Anagram Plus is to anagram or rearrange seven letters to form a word having 4 or more letters. Each game consists of either five, 10 or 15 words. In addition each letter is given a value as found in the board game Scrabble.

CFB SpotWord 1.0 (Shareware, $9.95)

See how many words you know with this game for Palm handhelds. The free trial version has all the features of the full version but only 10 puzzles. The full version has 500 different puzzles to keep you entertained for many months - if not years.

Cross+A 6.03 (Shareware, $20.00)

The purpose of Cross+A is to simplify the solution of crosswords, word-based puzzles, anagrams and nonograms. Cross+A provides very flexible and powerful search tools. User can search English words by known letters and descriptions as well as find anagrams and word-combinations. Program uses a dictionary of 156000 English words

Crossword Wordplay Wizard 1.1 (Demo, $29)

Shows wordplay types you can use to clue an answer in a cryptic crossword: anagrams; reversal; charades; container and contents; head, middle, tail and ends deletion; alternation; substitution. Links to extensive lists of indicators with guidance on usage: abbreviation indicators, anagram indicators, charade indicators, container and contents indicators, reversal indicators. Saves time and improves cryptic clue quality by suggesting treatments you might not think of. Prints wordplay results. Copies wordplay results to the clipboard. Includes English language word list with over 250,000 entries. Merge and build in your own word lists.

MasterWord 1.1 (Shareware, $9.95)

CFB MasterWord is a Palm word game similar to Mastermind and Jotto. It will appeal to anybody with a good knowledge of words and logical reasoning skills. The free trial version is intended to be easy enough for children to play while still providing a good mental challenge.

Motamo 2.42 (Shareware, $16.90)

Motamo is a powerful dictionary search program for Scrabble players and crossword lovers.Very simple to use, this program helps you check validity of word, find anagrams, sub-anagrams, hooks... and find all the possible words that can be created from any set of letters. It helps you, too, to complete those hard-to-finish crosswords where you know some of the letters and their locations. Motamo includes official Scrabble dictionaries

PuzzLex 5.13 (Shareware, $22.00)

PuzzLex will help you to solve a wide range of word-based puzzles, such as crosswords, incomplete words, anagrams, multiple-word anagrams, and Countdown. Simply type in the known letters of a word, representing any unknown letters with a question mark. The program will search its comprehensive lexicon of words and phrases to show a listing of all possible matching words. You can type in a list of letters for the program to work with, specify letters to include or exclude, and add patterns. The lexicon offers over 200,000 words. (Evaluation version only allows access to words up to 8 letters in length)

ScrabbleScam 1.3 (Demo, $14.95)

Show all possible moves in a game of Scrabble in order of points scored. Type in the words already on the board, the seven tiles in the tray, and ScrabbleScam will list all possible moves in the order of points scored, from a list of 170,000 words. If you must, you can cheat using ScrabbleScam, but you can also improve your play by seeing what the best moves were after already having played your move. 50-point bingos, high-value tiles on bonus squares, forming more than one new word in a move, ScrabbleScam shows everything.

TEA Crossword Helper 2.4 (Demo, $39.99)

TEA is a crossword puzzle solver with over a million words and phrases; these are classified by familiarity, so you always see the most likely answers first. It is faster and more convenient than word lists in book form such as crossword completers, crossword dictionaries and crossword keys. TEA finds crossword answers; solves anagram clues; helps with other word games such as Scrabble and Countdown. Letter variables help solve cryptograms and find words with unusual properties such as palindromes; punctuation matching finds phrases and hyphenated words; macros find vowels and consonants; logical operations combine patterns in useful ways. TEA has a built-in dictionary and thesaurus with over 180,000 definitions and 130,000 citations; it also integrates with web browsers to look up words using Internet search engines. Results can be printed, copied to the clipboard and saved to file. Scrabble, Literature and Language lists are provided; the Word List Merge and Dictionary Builder tools help you incorporate you

Whirlwords 1.0.3 (Freeware)

Whirlwords is based on the familiar pencil-and-paper word chain puzzles that require you to connect two words by a series of steps in which you change one letter at a time. Our version extends the concept by providing six types of transitions from one word to the next instead of only one. Whirlwords comes with more than 100 puzzles in order of increasing difficulty. It also features a nifty graphical interface, a built-in editor so that you can construct your own puzzles, complete on-line help, and a vocabulary of more than 5,000 words.

Word Jubbler 1.2 (Shareware, $9.95)

Word Jubbler is a word game that will appeal to crossword enthusiasts and anybody who enjoys the challenge of word puzzles. The object of the game is to make words from sets of letters chosen by the computer. You don't have to use all the letters, but longer words get higher scores. Once you have solved 3 to 5 words (depending on your chosen skill level) you advance to the next level and get an increasing number of letters to use. As each level increases in difficulty you can get a bigger score but you are always racing against the clock!

WordOMatic 1.1.0 (Shareware, $17.95)

WordOMatic is a Word Search game with elements of puzzle and strategy. Rearrange letters to form words which are replaced with fresh letters. As letters grow old, they change colour. The object of the game is to use all available letters before they they become void. This is an original game belonging to the Word Search genre which includes games like Scrabble, Boggle and Jumble as well as modern PC games like Bookworm and Text Twist. This is one of the easiest games to learn and play. The game knows over forty thousand words from three to six letters. Players are encouraged to use words that contain a wide variety of letters. Bonus points are given for using longer words, and for avoiding repeated words. WordOMatic knows more than eight hundred words containing the letter X. How many do you know? Maybe it is time to learn learn some more!