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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 puzzle s
• Crossword puzzles
• Cryptograms
• Hangman
• Jotto (or Giotto)

Structured games, focussing on the semantics of words:

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

Linguistic recreations based around words and letters

• Anagram as discussed above
• Constrained writing
• DitloidA ditloid is a type of word puzzle, in which a phrase or quote must be deduced from the numbers and abbreviated letters in the clue. Examples include: 3 BM 3 Blind Mice 7 DS 7 Deadly Sins 24 H in a D 24 Hours in a Day 52 C in a P 52 Cards in a Pack 20000s
• PalindromeA palindrome is a word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units (like a strand of DNA) which has the property of reading the same in either direction (the adjustment of spaces between letters is generally permitted). The word "palindrome" comes froms
• PangramA pangram ( Greek: pan gramma "every letter") or holoalphabetic sentence is a piece of text which uses every letter of the alphabet. Most pangrams are short, usually a single sentence: the aim in devising a pangram as a word game is to be as brief as posss
• LipogramA lipogram (from lipagrammatos "missing letter") is a kind of writing with constraints or word game consisting of writing paragraphs or longer works in which a particular letter or group of letters is missing, usually a common vowel, the most common in Ens
• ShiritoriShiritori is a Japanese word game in which the players are required to say a word which begins with the final kana of the previous word. No distinction is made between hiragana, katakana and kanji. Shiritori" literally means "taking the bottom" as Japanes
• OxenfezOxenfez is a word game mainly practised in the English county of North East Lincolnshire, and is often played as a drinking game. Rules The premise of the game is simple: one player starts by saying a letter. Each following player has to add a letter to t

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