Word Games
A word game or word puzzle can be of several different types:
Letter arrangement games, where 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 dog for god.
Boggle
Option
Pick Two
Scrabble
Hotspots Word Game
Swedish puzzles
Alpha Blitz
Upwords
Ghost
Paper and pencil games/puzzles:
Acrostic puzzles
Crossword puzzles
Cryptograms
Hangman
Jotto (or Giotto)
Word search
Structured games, focusing on the semantics of words:
Categories
Charades
Fictionary
One, Two, Three
LINQ
Tennis-elbow-foot game
Linguistic recreations based around words and letters:
Anagram as discussed above
Constrained writing
Ditloids
Gry
Palindromes
Pangrams
Letter banks
Lipograms
The Man Who Melted Jack Dann
Oxenfez
Shiritori
Word golf
Others inclide:
rebuses - picture puzzles representing a word
verbal arithmetic
See word play for literary works in which the nature of the words used themselves become part of the subject of the work.
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