Understanding how your brain learns can help you make better use of learning time-even if it just means playing word games before bed instead of first thing in the morning.

But there's one more part of the puzzle that's important for effective learning (even though it's less fun than word games). I'm sure you're already downloading a bunch of apps to kick off your vocabulary learning. My favorite at the moment is Qiktionary, which is a relaxing guessing game that rewards you with fascinating facts. Qiktionary (iOS solo) - Solve words puzzles to earn interesting fact cards.ħ Little Words (iOS, Android, Web) - Solve daily puzzles with multi-letter tiles and a list of words to find. Lexology (iOS solo) - Enter words based on a letter you're supplied in order to collect letters and advance in the game. SpellUp (iOS solo) - Another game in which you connect letters to form words, this time with an astrological twist.

Words with Friends - The classic, Scrabble-like game pits you against your Facebook friends to see who can create the highest-scoring words. Word Pickle (iOS solo) - Construct as many words as you can from a 20-letter grid. Letterpress (iOS head-to-head) - Play against a friend in a word game like none other that has you stealing letters to create new words.Ĭatena (iOS head-to-head) - Use the last letters of your opponent's word to make a new one. Here are a few that I've enjoyed playing, which have improved my vocabulary along the way. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of word games, each with their own twist.

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