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Fortune Puzzles 1.2
Fortune Puzzles - Solve the puzzles and Madame Murghi will appear from the murky depths to tell your fortune more>>
This game works best on older Macintoshes. Compatible with system 7.0, it even works well at speeds as low as 16 mhz. Works on newer computer, but a bit clunky and without some of the visual effects.
Pizza Party Puzzles 1.0
Pizza Party Puzzles - Middle-School (grades 5 through 9) math program written to provide skills in context more>>
Students use hints to find what fraction of a pizza was eaten by each of five party-goers. Sample hints: "Judy had 2/5 of a pizza. Bill ate twice as much pizza as Judy."
Area Puzzles 1.2
Area Puzzles is designed to be an interesting puzzle in which students are shown a ten by ten grid sprinkled with numbers. more>>
Area Puzzles 1.2 is designed to be an interesting puzzle in which students are shown a ten by ten grid "sprinkled" with numbers. Students must fill the grid with colored rectangles so that the area of each rectangle matches the "sprinkle" number inside of it.
Area Puzzles is a set of math programs for students is grades 5 through 9. Students must fill a ten ... Students must fill a ten by ten grid with colored tiles so that the area of each tile agrees with
Fraction Puzzles 1.5
Middle-School (grades 5 through 9) math program written to provide skills in context. The program shows a series of 150 preset problems more>> Middle-School (grades 5 through 9) math program written to provide skills in context. The program shows a series of 150 preset problems. Each problem has a blank, sectioned square and a given fraction goal. Students must shade the square to match the given fraction. The program allows students to draw lines on the screen, and to shade certain fractional parts.
Mac OS 7.0 or later.
Version 1.5:
- A help screen has been added.
- Students can now select to have the program complete the puzzle grid.
- Improved interface.
Twixt Puzzles 1.0
Twixt Puzzles - Challenging puzzle game widget more>>
This widget lets you play with a set of Twixt quarterboard puzzles (one 12 x 12 quadrant of a regular 24 x 24 Twixt board). These puzzles represent fairly realistic endgame conditions, and some are derived from actual games between good players.
Be warned: these are challenging puzzles!
Find A Word 2.1.0
Find A Word is a word game more>>
Enter Your Word and click on the "Enter" button (or press the Return key). To be accepted, a word must be made from the Letter Pot letters, be included in the Find A Word dictionary (no proper names, contractions or abbreviations) and be unique (not used before in this turn). If you do not want to wait until the end of the turn, click the "Start Turn" button to continue through your five turns. The "End Game" button clears all words and scoring. You get ten points for each word plus one point for each letter in the word. If you find 30 words before the end of a turn, the turn ends and you get 200 bonus points plus a time bonus (1/10/100 points per unused second for 90/60/30 seconds per turn).
At the end of five turns, your Total Score will be compared to the top ten scores. If your score is within the ten top scores, your name, score, number of turns that you received a bonus and your Time per Turn will be added to the High Scores table. The High Scores window can be accessed at any time from the menu bar. You can edit a name in the High Scores window by double-clicking a name, typing a new name, and pressing the "Enter" button.
The Find A Word dictionary includes over 80,000 words. You can add/subtract words using the Word Maintenance window accessed from the menu bar. When you first launch the Find A Word program, the default dictionary is saved to your hard drive. Changes (additions or deletions) are saved automatically and the revised dictionary is loaded at the beginning of the next session. You can click the "Use Default Word Set" button at any time. Warning: Clicking this button will overwrite your revised dictionary immediately. If you want to improve your play skills, you can find a list of words that could be made from your Letter Pot letters by selecting Improve Skills under the Help menu and following the steps. Sound can be turned on/off.
A Help window is available. This game was written in REALbasic and is freeware.
Enhancements:
- This version is Universal Binary

Evaluating Crossnumber Puzzles 1.2
Middle-School (grades 5 through 9) math program. Students solve crossnumber puzzles by evaluating simple expressions. Program uses only positive integers. Requirements: Mac OS 7.0 or later more>> Middle-School (grades 5 through 9) math program. Students solve crossnumber puzzles by evaluating simple expressions. Program uses only positive integers.
Mac OS 7.0 or later.
Version 1.2: Cosmetic improvements to the main screen
Evaluating Cross-Number Puzzles 1.0
Evaluating Cross-Number Puzzles is a beneficial and easy to use program taken on a CD-ROM collection of over 200 mathematics puzzles, available from the developers Web site. more>>
Evaluating Cross-Number Puzzles 1.0 is a beneficial and easy to use program taken on a CD-ROM collection of over 200 mathematics puzzles, available from the developer's Web site. Developed by a veteran teacher, these visually-oriented puzzle games have a simple interface and are designed to provide math problems in context to middle-school (grades five through nine) students.
In this particular puzzle, students solve cross-number puzzles by evaluating simple expressions. Program uses only positive integers.
Daily Word 5.1
Daily Word - Displays the Word of the Day from your choice of nine different word-related websites more>>
Available Sources: Merriam-Webster, Dictionary.com, Wordsmith.Org, Yahoo! Education, TheFreeDictionary.com, MedicineNet.com, Brainy Dictionary, Scrabble-Assoc.com, Braingle.com
Enhancements:
- Now offers 9 different word sources (selected on back of widget)
- Added Merriam-Webster word source
- Hear the word spoken aloud (available for the Wordsmith.Org source only)
- Updated user interface
- Fixed a bug that caused the Wordsmith.Org source to display incorrectly.
License:Freeware
Crossword Puzzle Helper 1.1
Crossword Puzzle Helper - Let this utility help you find the answer more>>
The default word set has over forty-eight thousand words. You may use the Maintenance window to add new words or delete words in your word set. The first time you launch the utility, the default word set will be loaded and saved. When you next launch the utility, your word set (with changes) will be loaded and when you quit, the current word set will be saved. You may also revert to the default word set by clicking on the "Use Default Word Set" button.

Bean Word Processor 2.3
Small, fast word processor. more>>
A small, easy-to-use word processor (or more precisely, a rich text editor), designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. Bean is Open Source, fully Cocoa, and is available free of charge! Features: live word count, inspector panel, full screen mode, find and replace with regular expressions.
Safari Word 1.0
Safari Word is a skin for the Safari browser that replaces the menu buttons with descriptive words when mousing over them more>> Safari Word is a skin for the Safari browser that replaces the menu buttons with descriptive words when mousing over them. For example, moving your mouse over the "A" icon turns the icon into "Big", meaning it makes the pages text larger.
Mac OS X 10.2 or later, Safari 1.0 or later.
TooHot Crossword Puzzles Compiler 0.5.0
TooHot Crossword Puzzles Compiler allows you to create custom crossword puzzles fully automatically using your own databases or built in clue-answer dictionaries more>> TooHot Crossword Puzzles Compiler allows you to create custom crossword puzzles fully automatically using your own databases or built in clue-answer dictionaries. Puzzles can be exported as HTML or published as Online-Game with popular TooHot Open Source Java Applet.
Java 1.2 or later.
iPhone Word Clock 0.1c
Word Clock for the iPhone more>> Word Clock for the iPhone
iPhone Word Clock displays a fixed list of all numbers and words sufficient to express any possible date and time as a sentence. Word Clock shows time by underlining appropriate words as each second passes.
System requirements:
- iPhone
Integer Balance Beam Puzzles 1.3
Integer Balance Beam Puzzles is the addictive puzzle game that youll want to play again and again. Students balance a beam by using positive and negative weights. more>>
Integer Balance Beam Puzzles 1.3 is the addictive puzzle game that you'll want to play again and again. Students balance a beam by using positive and negative weights.