<p>@emilybee, keep plugging at Thursday - it’s the most fun. There’s nearly always a trick to it, it’s really no harder than Sunday most of the time. I do Thurs, Fri, Sat and Sun with dh. Two brains are definitely better than one, though I always complain he doesn’t help as much as he should on sports and cars.</p>
<p>I love the Sporcle site for quizzes. So many quizzes. Where I work we compete in a daily trivia called funtrivia. You can set up teams or be a team of one. You can also set the catagories.</p>
<p>There used to be a massively multi-player Scrabble game called WordSquared. So sad it’s gone. :(</p>
<p>@sudsie is there a particular Kaser game you recommend? The website is pretty overwhelming. You pay for each particular game? Honeycomb Hotel looked interesting to me but it cost $24.95 to download so thought perhaps I would see what games you think are worth the download.</p>
<p>Just downloaded " 7 little words" app- what a gem, thanks to those who suggested it. This is a great thread, thanks op for starting this one. </p>
<p>Scrabble (9.99 app) very quality app, and I play against the computer (various settings- beginner, intermediate, then big leap to advanced).Select option that allows you to input word without penalty-( much more fun) </p>
<p>Puzzle app, challenging as mentioned above you can select number of pieces. I, also, bought additional packs (2.99) after enjoying the free puzzles so much,
“Flow” (free) makes me crazy. “Memory” select number of cards, and gets very difficult. (Free)</p>
<p>For serious Scrabble players, this is a fantastic site - <a href=“http://thepixiepit.co.uk/”>404 error; . It used to be free but now has a $15 annual subscription fee but it’s well worth it.</p>
<p>@HarvestMoon1, there are a bunch I like including Honeycomb Hotel, Sherlock, Descartes Enigma, Knarly works and Knarly Mazes. You can download free trials of many of the games (see bottom of the webpage) which have a decent number of games to play. I’ve been using so many of them for so long I just got the CD of all of them–figured the guy deserved my $99 after all the hours and hours I’ve played these games!</p>
<p>I do crossword puzzles, Sudoku, Kenken, cryptoquotes… actually almost any word or number puzzle I can find. I actually started on the NYT crossword puzzle in HS, when a friend and I would work on the daily puzzle each morning before homeroom. I’ve been hooked since.</p>
<p>@mathmom - I find Sunday pretty easy as it’s usually not difficult to figure out the theme. Thursday-Saturday I find it much harder. - especially Saturday. I zip thought Monday-Wednesday. </p>
<p>@shellfell, where do you find crypto quotes online? I love them, but can’t find an online source for them. </p>
<p>@emilybee, Saturday is very hard, we usually finish it, but it takes two for sure. The thing that makes Thursdays tricky is there is nearly always a theme or trick, but without a title it’s harder to cotton on to what it is.</p>
<p>I’m not sure I want to know an online source of cryptoquotes, I might get tempted!</p>
<p>Besides games already mentioned, I love the Conceptis Puzzle site – primarily logic puzzles (<a href=“http://www.conceptispuzzles.com”>www.conceptispuzzles.com</a>). There are free tutorials for games that are unfamiliar, and each game offers one new free puzzle/week. You can also pay for puzzles. I enjoy it enough that I did buy a bunch of “credits” once which I’m still using to spend on puzzles. I also like <a href=“http://www.griddlers.net”>www.griddlers.net</a> though sometimes it’s hard to find which puzzles will end up creating good pictures. (And I’m disappointed if the end result is lackluster.)</p>
<p>Oh, my - I might regret starting this thread… if I started playing half the games recommended here, I’d never sleep (or get anything done)!</p>
<p>For those who mentioned 7 Little Words, you can access it daily through the USA Today website, which is where I play most of my games. </p>
<p>But it might be good to play games like the ones on this thread some because then you might be able to accomplish the other tasks more efficiently. Games can also be good stress relief when you have something big happening that you must wait on, have hit a block, or just need a break. They can also eat up a lot of time. ;)</p>
<p>The longer the college decision process goes on, the more time I’m spending on sudoku/ puzzles. Must. Stay. Distracted!</p>
<p>I don’t know of an online source for cryptoquotes. I get it in my Sunday paper and daily in a small local paper.</p>
<p>I am addicted to Words with Friends. I play 2 random people several times a day, multiple games going, and also with my son. My real-life friends won’t play more than one game with me; S and I tend to be cutthroat.</p>
<p>I also love Ruzzle, which is just like Boggle. Quick game to play with random strangers, though I have played 2 opponents for more than a year.</p>
<p>I also play “Flow”, but only the free games. Now I have to try 7 Little Words…</p>
<p>My Ruzzle partner dumped me…I think I was winning too much 
I’m also a WWF fanatic!</p>
<p>I do logic puzzles, but mostly as time wasters. But I also do crossword puzzles, which sometimes suggests to me I have too much time to waste. I don’t think much of the little games that require focus for short periods. And I hate the bombardment of ads for a subscription.</p>
<p>I remember reading Juvenal’s Satires - though I remember them as Horace, but I checked - and reading: orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano. The source of “a sound mind in a sound body”, at least in literature. </p>
<p>Been doing the Times crossword forever–for the past few years on my ipad. The archive goes back to 1996, so alive been working through that, which presents its own challenges. Their are references to forgotten pop icons, old tv shows, etc. </p>
<p>I’ve read that the Sunday puzzle is at the difficulty level of the Thursday puzzle. I’ve also wondered whether the difficulty level is related to the answers or the clues, i.e., could you change a Monday puzzle into a Saturday puzzle–and vice versa–by making the clues more obscure. </p>
<p>I’m also a big trivia person, and am always looking for interesting trivia games. Played Quizup for a while, until It became boring. They weren’t updating the questions often enough, so it became more of a reaction time game than a test of knowledge.</p>
<p>I also like backgammon on my ipad. Use to play real people but it’s less popular. One of these days I’m going to relearn cribbage. </p>