Word games can be of several different types:

Letter arrangement games, where the goal is to form words out of given letters:

• Anagrams (not to be confused with the linguistic recreation below)
• Boggle
• Option
• Pick Two
• Scrabble
• Swedish puzzles
• Upwords

Paper and pencil games/puzzles:

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

Structured games, focussing on the semantics of words:

• Charades
• Categories
• Fictionary

Linguistic recreations based around words and letters

• Anagrams
• Palindromes
• Pangrams
• Lipograms

External Links

• Google Web Directory: Games > Internet > Browser Based > Word Games

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See word play for literary works in which the nature of the words used themselves become part of the subject of the work.