Word game
From Free net encyclopedia
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 "Old west action" for "Clint Eastwood".
- Boggle
- Scrabble
- Hotspots Word Game
- Swedish puzzles
- Alpha Blitz
- Upwords
- Ghost
- WildWords
Paper and pencil games/puzzles:
- Acrostic puzzles
- Crossword puzzles
- Cryptograms
- Hangman
- Jotto (or Giotto)
- Word search
Structured games, focusing on the semantics of words:
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
- 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.
[edit]
See also
- list of computer puzzle games
- puzzles
- Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics
- Weird Wordz A fiction dictionary game
[edit]