A word game or word puzzle can be of several different types:

Letter arrangement games

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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

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• Acrostic puzzles
• Crossword puzzles
• Cryptograms
• Hangman
• Jotto (or Giotto)
• Word search

Structured games

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Games focusing on the semantics of words.

• Categories (game)
• Charades
• Fictionary
• LINQ
• Tennis-elbow-foot game

Linguistic recreations

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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

Others inclide:

• 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.

See also

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• list of computer puzzle games
• puzzles
• Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics
• Weird Wordz A fiction dictionary game

External links

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• Word Sandwich
• Boggle, Word Morph, Words in A Word Numerous word games and tools

Word games | Word puzzles | Puzzle computer and video games

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