April 16, 2025: Game Recommendation: Pilfer

Did you know that there is a fantastic little collection of word games on the Merriam-Webster website? I only stumbled onto them recently! But before you go explore, let me tell you about one in particular that I just can't get enough of.

Pilfer is a quick multiplayer anagram game that you can play against a bot, with friends, or with other online players. Create words from a common pool of letter tiles, or alter existing words by adding more letters – rearranging as much as you'd like! If you steal a word, it's yours until someone adds another letter to it. Everyone's score is the total number of letters in their words at the end of the game.

This was a massive hit on a recent family Zoom call; we ended up playing several rounds because it's just so fast! If you enjoy Bananagrams, Boggle, Scrabble Slam, or any other real-time word games, it's a must-try.

-- Irene Zielinski