Personal Education
Just Too Gross
A book of 288 Wicked Wonderful Wordies
This book (really more like a booklet at just 33 pages) is available in the easy-to-use Portable Document Format or PDF.
Clicking the link typically opens and displays the book within your browser window. Isn't modern browser capability amazing?
If you right click the link you will get the option to "Save as..." so you can put the pdf on your computer and look at it on screen whenever you want. You can also print it on paper, giving yourself an old-style, laid-back experience.
You may share the PDF file or even print copies to share with others, too.
The book is released using the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license.
Follow that link to learn more about what that means for sharing.
Background
At King Philip Regional Middle School in Norfolk, Massachusetts, I taught science and computer skills to 7th and 8th grade students for many years. Among many other experiments and activities students made illustrations for their work. Some images were technical or artistic, while others, were for fun.
Wordies became a regular thing as we designed idiom puzzles like the ones often seen in Games Magazine. It became a weekly routine to post one or more on the computer lab door for all students in our school to try to solve. Eventually we had enough to begin publishing them in sets of twelve, just like the ones you'll see in the book.
I encourage you to make your own wordies. Here's my process: http://runeman.org/wordies/making/.
This particular book is entirely created using Free Software (AKA "open source"). Nobody needs to rely on proprietary (and usually expensive) tools to make puzzles and books like these.
I use Inkscape to make the individual Wordie puzzles and to pull them together into pages of 12.
To make the book from the sets of 12 puzzles, I used LibreOffice Writer. It is also "open source".
As I make new puzzles, I publish them here http://runeman.org/puzzles.html, typically on Sundays. They can be found at my social media account @algot@mastodon.art. If you use RSS feeds, add https://mastodon.art/@Algot.rss to your feed reader. (As a Fediverse/Mastodon account feed, you'll also see more posts than the weekly puzzles.)
If you want to reach me with questions, email is always possible (see the page footer), but you might also try through federated social media where I can be found as @algot@mastodon.art. (Federated social media "The Fediverse" is not a silo like Twitter or Facebook or the other proprietary, AI driven places people congregate online these days.