The visuals and narrative on the Funville Games box made it clear this was a drag-and-drop strategy game. It felt like the production quality would be good. At `375 it was sensibly priced.

After reading my recent piece on Orchard (Think Tank Games), Deepa tried her hand at the brain numbing puzzle, and mailed me some pictures of her horticulture-in-progress.

Www.fun2play.com was an addictive site that guaranteed hours of compelling, and intensely competitive word play with perfect strangers somewhere on the net. Sadly, one day the site spoke of shutting down, and soon after, my favourite ‘Word Prospector’ was gone. Years later, in a reminiscent moment, I logged on again, and found the site active and reinvented. It’s now something of a click through window to the wide world of word games events, on-line games, vocabulary enablers, suggested sites of