When I’m in the mood for word games, I like to browse the latest updates along the bottom of each page – because who doesn’t like feeling they’re not alone in the world? – and think up interesting derivative forms. Then I look for similar words that might accept the same derivative. (cravenly… cravenlily? no. but friendlily, courtlily? yah. testosterous? no. [but such a sussurous unword!] testosteronic? no worries. curmudgeoning? perhaps. escutcheoning? not on wordnik, but so satisfying… yes, there it is… example commented in.)

Then there is list surfing, much more passive but equally rewarding. If an amazing word is on a list that is well titled, I browse the list for other words like it… mainly ones that are themselves on more than one list (so I can repeat the process). One can build up quite a treasure of obliquely and inspiringly related words that way, by simply following one’s whims. I sometimes make my own lists in the process, to help harmonize aha!s into something concise and interesting to others.

Between these two, I usually come away from a visit word-sated, no matter how wired or tired I was to start.