Six-Word Memoirs been used as a writing exercise for teachers, ranging from second-grade classrooms to graduate schools. HarperCollins created a teacher's guide to encourage the Six-Word Memoir form as a tool for teaching. Six-Word Memoirs have been employed as tools in hospital wards, appeared in a eulogy, and suggested as a form of prayer by a preacher in North Carolina. Six-Word Memoir videos from individuals ranging from teenager Micahsamaniac (a YouTube user) and bestselling author Daniel Handler have been posted to YouTube. 6 Words Minneapolis, a public art project, employed the form to build community and empathy among citizens living in the
Word Up (video game) object of the Brain Game is to create a number of words to reach a point’s target. Once that target is reached then the length of the various words made is converted into new blocks (each 3 letter word = 1 block, each 4 letter word = 2 blocks etc.). These new blocks are then added, a new points target is set and the game continues in this fashion until you have run out of blocks or cannot make any words with those left. On 19 November 2008 Word Soup was launched on the Xbox 360 Community Games channel. It