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18 February 2010
Today, two new features are added to the Chihuahua site:
For some time, players of custom-made puzzles under the Your puzzles tab have had the opportunity to chat to other players looking at the same puzzle. Now the Chi-chat panel is coming to the daily puzzles. For now, chatting will be possible only with the Challenge (green) puzzle. If the innovation is a success it may be extended to the Standard puzzle as well.
You can choose whether you want to take part in Chi-chat. A button at the bottom right of the chat panel allows you to open or close the panel. For more details, see the Chi-chat Help.
Many players relish the challenge of knowing which words ending in S are acceptable, but if you find it all a bit too convoluted, there's a new option just for you. When creating a custom-built puzzle under the Your puzzles tab, you can click on the "Allow all words ending with S" option, and cut through the confusion.
The new option doesn't guarantee that each puzzle will include an S, but it does mean that whenever there is an S, you'll be able to use all the plurals and verb inflections the puzzle letters can make.
2 February 2010
Now you can get your Chihuahua puzzle fix wherever you are, with a Chihuahua book!
A book of 100 Chihuahua puzzles has just been published. The price is $US9.95. Books can be ordered online, for delivery by mail, from either:
Soon, the book will also be available at Amazon sites in the UK, Canada, etc, and from other book retailers' websites.
Although the puzzles in the book are the same type as the ones on the website, the actual puzzles are not repeats of ones that have appeared recently online: none of the puzzles in the book is the same as any daily puzzle from the past 12 months, and none of the nine-letter words has appeared in any daily puzzle over the past 3 years.
One thing different from the online puzzles is that, in the book, all plurals are acceptable in the puzzles that contain an S.
More information is presented on the new Chihuahua Puzzle Books page.
Please tell us what you think about this move, by email or on the Lexigame Forum.
17 June 2008
The earliest known example of a word-making puzzle similar to Chihuahua - dating from the 1870s. Read more ...
27 May 2008
The Chihuahua puzzle page has a new section: Your puzzles. When you click on this tab at the top of the display, you will see a whole new world of Chihuahua goodies! Read more ...
28 September 2007
Chihuahua celebrates two years online. Read more ...
12 April 2007
Chihuahua now gives you more information about your progress in the game, and it even lets you change the information you see on the scoreboard! Read more ...
19 March 2007
We checked out the statistics to see if players were getting better results since they could shuffle the letters. Read more ...
23 February 2007
Chihuahua has had another upgrade. The newest features include a shuffle function and a way to bring back previous words. Read more ...
15 December 2006
Some new features have been added to Chihuahua, including optional player registration and saved random games. Read more ...
25 October 2006
The Chihuahua word puzzle is back online after an absence of about a week. Read more ...
11 July 2006
A million words have been played in Chihuahua. Read more ...
6 June 2006
Some reports of disappearing words are due to players misunderstanding when games are saved. But this doesn't explain all the problems reported. Read more ...
5 April 2006
The new Chihuahua Assist tool is revealed to have been an April fool's joke. Read more ...
1 April 2006
A powerful new tool is about to be added to Chihuahua. Called Chihuahua Assist, it harnesses computer technology to help you improve your scores. Read more ...
14 March 2006
It's been suggested that some of the nine-letter words are too obscure. Read more ...
22 February 2006
From now on, the Challenge puzzle will be somewhat more difficult, on the average, than the Standard puzzle. Read more ...
27 January 2006
If you play both the Standard and Challenge puzzles you may have wondered if there is any difference in how the puzzles are set. Read more ...
4 January 2006
Did you know you can play Chihuahua using the keyboard instead of the mouse? This has always been a feature of the game, but now it has been enhanced. Read more ...
6 December 2005
A few words have been added to the list of words allowed in Chihuahua.. Read more ...
2 December 2005
You now have a choice of two Chihuahua word puzzles every day, Standard and Challenge. Read more ...
November 2005
From now on, the solution will not be available until the following day. Read more ...
Wednesday 12 October 2005
The Chihuahua puzzle now has two higher levels to aspire to - Maven and Cham. Read more ...