Accessible Puzzles and Games
By: Katherine Schneider, schneiks@uwec.edu,
May 2007
Email lists:
For those interested in swapping
information about accessible word and logic puzzles, please join my email list,
blind puzzlers, by going to googlegroups.com
Brainbashers daily puzzle in your mailbox,
sign up at www.brainbashers.com/puzzles
Braingle brain teaser of the day in your
inbox, sign up at www.braingle.com
NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle synopsis by
email, send blank email to nprpuzzle-subscribe@igc.topica.com
www.ken-jennings.com Weekly trivia email
A daily brain teaser is available by
email from Afunzone Go to their website www.afunzone.com to sign up.
http://sploofus.com/sign
up for a daily trivia email and enjoy online
word games and other trivia
Downloadable games:
*Free downloadable adventure and
board games www.kitchensinc.net
List of all kinds of accessible
online games www.whitestick.co.uk
Blind gamers' puzzle site, www.omninet.net.au/~irhumph/puzzles.htm
*Talking crossword puzzle software
(testing a beta version is free) available from American Printing House for the
Blind, www.aph.org
Online games:
Play card, word and trivia games
online www.zonebbs.com
National Puzzlers League www.puzzlers.org
Word games www.alphadictionary.com/fun/alphagames.html
World puzzle championship links, http://wpc.puzzles.com/
*Riddles www.riddles.com
Role-playing game
www.dentimud.org/alter
Ed Pegg Jr.'s math puzzles, www.mathpuzzle.com
Jim Loy's puzzle page, www.jimloy.com/puzz/puzz.htm
Enchanted mind brain teasers, www.enchantedmind.com
Puzzles, www.puzz.com/
Audio Games including some word
games, www.audiogames.net
http://pressakey.net
U.K. Audio Network with its games room including a great word game
*Word games for kids who are blind
or visually impaired, American Foundation for the Blind, www.afb.org/braillebug/games.asp
Bill's Games, www.billsgames.com/
has word scrambles, brain teasers, available free.
Word lovers might like this site
which includes lipograms which are a kind of word puzzle: www.phrontistery.info
http://www.puzzlersparadise.com/index.html
Math Games http://www.funbrain.com/numbers.html
http://www.theproblemsite.com
has all kinds of logic and word games; fairly accessible and all free
word definitions game: www.etymologic.com
*20 questions game against computer http://y.20q.net
Magazines:
Conundrum Braille puzzle magazine,
available for purchase from Royal National Institute for the Blind or for
Magazine for blind gamers Audyssey
Magazine www.audiogames.net
Books:
Will Shortz "The Puzzlemaster
Presents" volumes one and two, available in Braille for purchase from
National Braille Press, www.nbp.org
* = Kid-friendly