Orbisculation Nation

🚨Attention Orbisculation Nation! We have exciting news!!! Reader's Digest recently launched a new game in honor of our beloved word! The "Orbisculate Challenge," which involves finding words using the letters within "orbisculate," originated from the inventive minds of seniors at a retirement home in Torrington, Connecticut back in 2022 (when Reader's Digest first published our story). Thanks to Sue Mollineaux, a fan of Reader's Digest and a member of Orbisculation Nation, the magazine heard about this clever word game --- and decided to make it a regular feature! Each issue features a different word that readers are encouraged to find other words within.

We are so thrilled that Reader's Digest named this word game after our father's word. We invite you all to play the original version and share with us all the words you find within "orbisculate"! One of our best players found 580 words!!! Can you beat that score?! Give it a shot and let us know! 🍊🍋

Here's your reminder to watch out for orbisculation when making orange juice or interacting with citrus this summer! Thank you so much to the talented Cathy Collins Adler for creating such wonderful artworks to help spread the word!!! You rock Cathy!!! 🍊🍋🧃🤩

We recently received this hilarious limerick by the "Three Orbisculophiles":

“I’ll have a Corona,” said Nate,
Who, without a forethought of his fate,
Then squeezed a lime wedge
To de-skunk the beer’s edge
And got juiced as the pulp did orbisculate.

Of course, we simply HAD to reply with a limerick of our own🤩:

Sorry to hear about Nate's lime,
We are still delighted with your rhyme!
Thank you for supporting Orbisculate,
And for the enthusiasm of Nate!
Please continue using the word this summertime.

Moral of the story: don't be like Nate, and shield yourself from orbisculation if you can help it!!! 😅🍋

Thanks so much to CBS Mornings for helping us spread the word about Orbisculate in a "Kindness 101" episode! We are so grateful to On the Road with Steve Hartman and his kids for sharing our story and asking insightful questions! Please keep helping us spread the word!

When Jonathan and Hilary Krieger’s father, Neil, died of COVID, they wanted to find a unique way to honor him. So they launched a campaign of 78 goals to get the word “orbisculate” — which Neil invented — into the dictionary: “The next generation will have the word and it will live on through them.”