Word game
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A word game or word puzzle can be of several different types:
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Letter arrangement games
The goal is to form words out of given letters.
- Anagrams -- both a simple game of rearranging letters and a linguistic recreation of making anagrams that seem to illuminate something about the original word, such as "Old west action" for "Clint Eastwood".
- Boggle
- Scrabble
- Hotspots Word Game
- Swedish puzzles
- Alpha Blitz
- Upwords
- Ghost
- WildWords
- Scribbage
- Literati
Paper and pencil games/puzzles
- Acrostic puzzles
- Crossword puzzles
- Cryptograms
- Hangman
- Jotto (or Giotto)
- Word search
Structured games
Games focusing on the semantics of words.
- Categories (game)
- Charades
- Fictionary
- LINQ
- Tennis-elbow-foot game
Linguistic recreations
Games based around words and letters.
- Anagram as discussed above
- Constrained writing
- Ditloids
- Gry
- Palindromes
- Pangrams
- Kaladont
- Letter banks
- Lipograms
- The Man Who Melted Jack Dann
- Oxenfez
- Shiritori
- Word golf
- Word Sandwich -- An online word-guessing game written by Robert McKee based on the Hi-Lo number-guessing game, made popular from the Clock Game on The Price is Right
- Rebuses - picture puzzles representing a word
- Verbal arithmetic
- Ambigrams
See also
- list of computer puzzle games
- puzzles
- Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics
- [Weird Wordz] A fiction dictionary game
External links
- [Word Games] at the Open Directory Project
- [Word Sandwich]
- [Boggle, Word Morph, Words in A Word] Numerous word games and tools
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