Scrabble / Other Word Games

Scrabble Solver
This Scrabble solver finds all 2 to 7 letter words from a given selection and supports the use of blank tiles.

Anagram Solver
Enter up to 12 letters and this anagram solver will find all the words that can be made from them.

Useful Word Lists
I have a page with lots of useful word lists for use in Scrabble, Literati, Upwords or other word games. This contains lists of all 2 and 3 letter words, all Q words, high scoring words, words with all consonants in and many others.

Word List Maker
This program is used to generate word lists and can be used in Scrabble, Literati, Upwords or any other similar word game or just simply as a dictionary to quickly check words. The program takes your sequence of up to 8 letters and makes a list of all 2 to 8 letter words containing your letters.

Crossword Solver
Enter a mixture of up to 12 known or unknown letters and the crossword solver will find all the possible words that can be made from those letters.

Word Grid
This is a free online single player word game. Letters appear in the top left corner of the grid and you have to place them onto the grid to try and make horizontal and vertical words. The minimum word length begins at 4 letters but this goes up after you reach 25, 50 and 75 words. There are bonuses for using harder letters and making longer words. The aim of the game is to score as many points you can and to make as many words as you can.

Word Pyramids
This is a free online single player word game. You begin with 2 letters at the top of the pyramid. On each word you have to add another letter and rearrange them to form a new word to try and fill up the word pyramid. There are 5 pyramids in each game and the aim is to score as many points as you can. There are 2 skill levels, the easy version goes up to 7 letter words and the harder version goes up to 10 letter words.

Recommended Online Word Games
This page says where you can play Scrabble online and has links to other online word games that I recommend.

Yahoo! Games Backdoor
This page gives you links for getting into full rooms on all Yahoo! Games such as Pool, Chess and Literati.

Chess

Chess Puzzles
This is a collection of checkmate puzzles. There are sets of 12 puzzles for beginners, intermediate and advanced players.

Chess
Play Chess online against a computer opponent.

Chess Openings
From this page you will find links to my various Opening's pages. There are pages about the following openings:- Blackburne Gambit, Budapest Gambit, Hippopotamus Defence, Incorrect Opening, Ruy Lopez, Slav Defence, St George's Defence and a collection of unusual openings. In total there are over 700 example games involving these openings.

Chess Opening's Statistics
These are statistics compiled from over 2 million games. It shows for each opening and variation what percentage of matches were won by white, black and were drawn. Also included are white's and black's best and worst 10 openings statistically and what are the most and least drawish openings. There are statistics for nearly 300 different openings and variations.