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Acrostic Video Tutorial

Christine Lovatt shows you how to get started with this popular puzzle, the Acrostic.

Binary Video Tutorial

Get started with the highly addictive logic puzzles known as Binaries.

Killer Sudoku (Addoku) Video Tutorial

An Addoku (Killer Sudoku) tutorial from puzzle queen Christine Lovatt.

Skeleton Crossword Video Tutorial

Christine Lovatt shows you step-by-step how to flesh out a Skeleton Crossword.

Word Search Video Tutorial

Puzzle queen, Christine Lovatt, shows you how to find your way around our popular find-a-word puzzles.

Hello – BIG August 2013

There may have been a time when all the lands of the world were joined. Way back in 1596, Flemish geographer Abraham Ortelius suggested that the Americas were “torn away from Europe and Africa ... by earthquakes and floods".

Hello – BIG July 2013

Words, just like us, come from families. Some are related to each other and have ancient ancestors.

It’s not always an obvious relationship. For instance, the words free and friend both came from an Indo-European root meaning ‘to love’.

You wouldn’t think there was a connection between biscuit, precocious and concoct but they all come from [more…]

Hello – BIG June 2013

The English language is like a high-speed moving train, with new words jumping on and old words dropping off constantly.

Most of the words we use in the English language today are of foreign origin. Many basic words came from Anglo-Saxon or Scandinavian and English still derives much of its vocabulary from Latin and Greek, [more…]

Hello – BIG May 2013

How much difference does one little letter make in a word? Take the T in egotism for example. You might think that there’s little difference between egoism and egotism, and they do have their similarities. But there is a major difference...