Word game
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Word games and puzzles are spoken or board games often designed to test ability with language or to explore its properties.
Word games are generally engaged as a source of entertainment, but have been found to serve an educational purpose as well. For instance, young children can find enjoyment playing modestly competitive games such as Hangman, while naturally developing important language skills like spelling. Solving crossword puzzles, which requires familiarity with a larger vocabulary, is a pastime that mature adults have long credited with keeping their minds sharp.
There are popular televised word games with valuable monetary prizes for the winning contestants. Many word games enjoy international popularity across a multitude of languages, whilst some are unique to English-speakers.
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Paper and pencil games/puzzles
- Acrostics
- Crossword puzzles
- Cryptic crossword
- Cryptograms
- Hangman
- Jotto (or Giotto)
- Rebus
- Word polygonTemplate:NdashA puzzle often include in newspapers combining an anagram with a type of wordsearch.
- Word search
Structured games
Games focusing on the semantics of words.
Linguistic recreations
These are games based on words and letters.
- Anagram as discussed above
- Celebrity Name Game Challenge
- Constrained writing
- Contact
- Ditloids
- Gry
- Homophone Word Game
- How Many Hippos?
- Kaladont
- Kangaroo words
- Letter banks
- Lipograms
- Palindromes
- Pangrams
- Quadrivial Quandary
- Rebus
- Shiritori
- Spelling bee
- Spoonerisms
- The Da Vinci Game
- The Green Glass Door
- The Man Who Melted Jack Dann
- Word golf
Televised Games
Miscellaneous
- Ambigrams
- Fortunately, Unfortunately
- RebusesTemplate:Ndashpicture puzzles representing a word
- Verbal arithmetic
- Wordict is a free English words game that can be downloaded
See also
- Double entendre
- Forum games
- Fortunately, Unfortunately
- Language game for a linguistic variant.
- List of puzzle video games
- Online Word games
- Puns
- Puzzles
- Word play for literary works in which the nature of the words used themselves become part of the subject of the work.
- Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics