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Word game
Word games 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
- Swedish puzzles
- Upwords
- Ghost
Paper and pencil games/puzzles:
- Acrostic puzzles
- Crossword puzzles
- Cryptograms
- Hangman
- Jotto (or Giotto)
- Word search
Structured games, focussing on the semantics of words:
Linguistic recreations based around words and letters
- Anagram as discussed above
- Constrained writing
- Ditloids
- Palindromes
- Pangrams
- Lipograms
- Shiritori
- Oxenfez
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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