Word game

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

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

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• 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:

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

Structured games, focussing on the semantics of words:

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• Categories
• Charades
• Fictionary
• One, Two, Three
• LINQ

Linguistic recreations based around words and letters:

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• Anagram as discussed above
• Constrained writing
• Ditloids
• Gry
• Palindromes
• Pangrams
• Letter banks
• Lipograms
• Oxenfez
• Shiritori
• Word golf

Others inclide:

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• 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. See language game for a linguistic variant.

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