Richard D. Ekstrom

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Richard D. Ekstrom

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Richard Ekstrom is a business consultant specializing in creative problem solving. He has played Scrabble for as long as he can remember. The germination of the idea for this dictionary was initially formulated at his summer cottage. In those ancient times, before cable TV, there were few stations on broadcast TV and reception was so problematic that for many years the cottage did not even have a TV. Everybody played a lot of Scrabble, especially when it rained. It was a multigenerational pastime. Richard and his wife live in Pittsburgh and enjoy biking, tennis, cooking and reading.

The Backwords Dictionary

This dictionary (The Backwords Dictionary) was written primarily to enhance the enjoyment in playing the game of Scrabble® and Words with Friends®, although poets, rhymers, players of crossword puzzles and other word games may also find it useful.

In our family, Scrabble is a game we play for our enjoyment and amusement. As such, we are not opposed to modifying the rules to increase our enjoyment. Read more of this blog post »
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Published on July 16, 2014 12:56 Tags: crossword-puzzle, crosswords, dictionary, scrabble, word-endings, word-games, words-with-friends
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“About 35-40% of the time, a player wants to create a word ending in a specific letter. This, however, is not the way we traditionally think, and, not to mention, this is not the way dictionaries are sorted. In other words, in many situations, conventional dictionaries are not arranged in an easy to use manner. This dictionary solves that problem by sorting on the last letter of the word.”
Richard D. Ekstrom, The Backwords Dictionary: A Word Ending Dictionary

“About 35-40% of the time, a player wants to create a word ending in a specific letter. This, however, is not the way we traditionally think, and, not to mention, this is not the way dictionaries are sorted. In other words, in many situations, conventional dictionaries are not arranged in an easy to use manner. This dictionary solves that problem by sorting on the last letter of the word.”
Richard D. Ekstrom, The Backwords Dictionary: A Word Ending Dictionary




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