ABSTRACT
Word search puzzles are very popular today and are also commonly used as pedagogical tools; that is, as games for teaching children to identify the alphabetic structure of words. Word games are experiments in the relation between language and ludic cognition. Word search puzzles are very popular and are also commonly used as pedagogical tools; that is, as games for teaching children to identify the alphabetic structure of words. In the Internet Age, word games have migrated to online culture where they are among the most accessed recreational sites in the virtual world. The heart of the play featured a scene in a “Crossword Puzzlers Sanitarium” for people driven insane by their obsession with crossword puzzles. The level of difficulty rose quickly, however, as skilled crossword solvers started demanding much more challenging clues. Special dictionaries soon had to be compiled of unusual words that had found their way into crossword clues.
