Word game
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A word game or word puzzle can be of several different types:
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[edit] Letter arrangement games
The goal is to form words out of given letters.
- Acrophobia
- 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
- Euler's Day Off
- WordBox
[edit] Paper and pencil games/puzzles
- Acrostic puzzles
- Crossword puzzles
- Cryptograms
- Hangman
- Jotto (or Giotto)
- Word search
[edit] Structured games
Games focusing on the semantics of words.
- Categories (game)
- Charades
- Fictionary
- Govende
- LINQ
- Taboo (game)
- Tennis-elbow-foot game
- Scategories (game)
[edit] Linguistic recreations
Games based around words and letters.
- Anagram as discussed above
- Constrained writing
- Ditloids
- The Da Vinci Game
- Gry
- Kangaroo words
- Palindromes
- Pangrams
- Spoonerisms
- Kaladont
- Letter banks
- Lipograms
- The Green Glass Door
- 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
Others include:
- Rebuses - picture puzzles representing a word
- Verbal arithmetic
- Ambigrams
See word play for literary works in which the nature of the words used themselves become part of the subject of the work. See language game for a linguistic variant.
[edit] See also
- list of computer puzzle games
- puzzles
- Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics
- Online_Word_games
- Forum games
[edit] External links
- Up for a quick challenge?
- Word Games at the Open Directory Project
- Word Sandwich
- Boggle, Word Morph, Words in A Word Numerous word games and tools
