Word game
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 dog for god.
- Boggle
- Option
- Pick Two
- Scrabble
- Hotspots Word Game
- Swedish puzzles
- Alpha Blitz
- 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
- Gry
- Palindromes
- Pangrams
- Letter banks
- Lipograms
- Oxenfez
- Shiritori
- Word golf
Others inclide:
- 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.