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Word game - wikipedia Word game Jump to : navigation , search `` Word puzzle '' redirects here . For the video game , see Word Puzzle ( video game ) . Part of a series on Puzzles Types ( show ) Guessing Riddle Situation Logic Dissection Induction Logic grid Self - reference Mechanical Combination Construction Disentanglement Lock Go problems Folding Stick Tiling Transport Tour Sliding Chess Maze ( Logic maze ) Word and Number Crossword Sudoku Puzzle video games Mazes Metapuzzles Topics ( show ) Brain teaser Dilemma Optical illusion Packing problems Paradox Problem solving Puzzlehunt Syllogism Thinking outside the box Lists ( show ) Impossible puzzles Maze video games Nikoli puzzle types Puzzle video games Puzzle topics Word games ( also called word game puzzles ) are spoken or board games often designed to test ability with language or to explore its properties . Word games are generally engaged as a source of entertainment , but have been found to serve an educational purpose as well . For instance , young children can find enjoyment playing modestly competitive games such as Hangman , while naturally developing important language skills like spelling . Solving crossword puzzles , which requires familiarity with a larger vocabulary , is a pastime that mature adults have long credited with keeping their minds sharp . There are popular televised word games with valuable monetary prizes for the winning contestants . Many word games enjoy international popularity across a multitude of languages , while some are unique to English - speakers . Contents ( hide ) 1 Language - predicated educational games 1.1 Letter arrangement games 1.2 Paper and pencil games / puzzles 1.3 Structured games 1.4 Linguistic recreations 1.5 Televised and Radio games 1.6 Miscellaneous 2 See also 3 References 4 External links Language - predicated educational games ( edit ) A word game or word puzzle can be of several different types : Letter arrangement games ( edit ) A game of Scrabble The goal is to form words out of given letters . Acrophobia Alpha Blitz Alternade Anagrab 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 '' Bananagrams Boggle Bonza Chicktionary -- Game from Blockdot Dabble Euler 's Day Off Ghost Jumble -- game of word forming with letter permutations Letterpress ( video game ) Letters of Gold Pass the Bomb -- make a word including the given letters before the bomb explodes Perquackey Pick Two rearranging word tile crossword game Puzzlage Quiddler -- a game of forming words using a deck of cards with letters printed on them Ruzzle Scrabble and its variants Scribbage Scriptorium -- the game that gives meaning to words Spellathon Take a Letter Upwords Wordament Wordiamo Word Monsters WordSpot Word Streak with Friends Words of Gold Words with Friends Paper and pencil games / puzzles ( edit ) A crossword puzzle Arrowords Acrostics Crossword puzzles Cryptic crossword Cryptograms Hangman Jotto ( or Giotto ) Rebus Wonderword Word Force Word polygon -- A puzzle often included in newspapers combining an anagram with a type of wordsearch Word search Structured games ( edit ) Games focusing on the semantics of words . Charades Fictionary LINQ Mad Libs Scattergories Taboo Linguistic recreations ( edit ) These are games based on words and letters . Anagram as discussed above Constrained writing Ditloids Gry Homophone Word Game Kangaroo words Letter banks Lipograms Logogriphs Palindromes Pangrams Rebus Shiritori Spelling bee Spoonerisms The Man Who Melted Jack Dann Word chain ( also called The Name Game or Celebrity Name Game Challenge ) Word ladder Televised and Radio games ( edit ) Spelling bee Wheel of Fortune Lingo Des chiffres et des lettres Countdown Says You ! Miscellaneous ( edit ) Ambigrams Fortunately , Unfortunately Rebuses -- picture puzzles representing a word Verbal arithmetic See also ( edit ) Anagram dictionary Double entendre Fortunately , Unfortunately Language game for a linguistic variant List of puzzle video games Online word game Phono - semantic matching Puns Puzzles Word play for literary works in which the nature of the words used themselves become part of the subject of the work Word Ways : The Journal of Recreational Linguistics References ( edit ) Jump up ^ `` Upwords '' . BoardGameGeek . Retrieved 20 October 2017 . External links ( edit ) Word Games at Curlie ( based on DMOZ ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Word_game&oldid=808079121 '' Categories : Word games Word puzzles Hidden categories : Articles with DMOZ links Talk Contents About Wikipedia Српски / srpski Edit links This page was last edited on 31 October 2017 , at 19 : 15 . 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