The Big Ben Word Game

Big Ben is a word search game. You start off with all the letters it takes to spell out the current time, old fashioned style (hence, Big Ben). Then they scramble in some lesser-used letters to make a complete grid of 49 letters. Find as many words as you can by connecting adjacent letters in any direction, even several directions in a word. You rack up points by finding words, and more points by finding longer words. I got 36 points with my first word in the game pictured above! Yes, I can already see "just," "who," and "sex." When you complete a word, all those letters fall off and change the grid. There's no time limit; you end the game when you run out of options, or vowels. As a beginner, I just ran through words as I saw them, but I can see someone calculating how other letters will fall to maximize their score. Either way, it's a fun little distraction for a break in the midst of doing real work.  -via Everlasting Blort