Word Play (Games)

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Online@ Play Languages

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Piece of Pi MadLibs Piece of Pi MadLibs: Featuring a collection of madlib stories and poetry. (Word Play) http://madlibs.freeservers.com/ Jim Kalb's Palindrome Connection Jim Kalb's Palindrome Connection: A collection of links to web pages about palindromes -- phrases that spell the same forwards as backwards, like "Able was I ere I saw Elba". (Word Play) http://www.palindromes.org/ Janet's Wordplay Site Janet's Wordplay Site: Articles, puzzles, and quizzes. Dozens of features about having fun with words. (Word Play) http://www.jy-muggeridge.freeserve.co.uk/ eLibs.com eLibs.com: Creating interactive stories from user inputs. Possibility to add a dialect; also different categories and polls. (Word Play) http://www.elibs.com/ Mockok.com Mockok.com: A large collection of palindromes, focusing on palindromic single sentences (spelling the same forwards and backwards). Submissions welcome. (Word Play) http://www.mockok.com/ Kid Crosswords and Other Puzzles Kid Crosswords and Other Puzzles: Choose from several puzzles created just for kids. New puzzles each month. (Word Play) http://www.kidcrosswords.com/ NOVA: Decoding Nazi Secrets NOVA: Decoding Nazi Secrets: Crack the ciphers, send a coded message, and find out what goes on in the minds of code-breakers. (Word Play) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/decoding/ Phobias Phobias: Article that lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia -- the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth. (Word Play) http://www.geocities.com/nallen20/FunnyPhobias.txt Wireless Power Word Game Wireless Power Word Game: Challenging word jumbles posted every week. (Word Play) http://www.wirelesspower.com/ Smurf the Web Smurf the Web: The WebSmurfer will translate any web page into Smurf jargon. (Word Play) http://websmurfer.devnull.net/ Wordies on the Web Wordies on the Web: Translate these arrangements of letters, numbers and/or symbols into a familiar phrase, saying, or cliché. (Word Play) http://www.cyg.net/~ddoctor/ AskOxford: Word Games AskOxford: Word Games: Cryptic and easy crosswords, fiendish word games, the history of crosswords, and scrabble and behind the scenes at Countdown. (Word Play) http://www.askoxford.com/wordgames/?view=uk The Nautical Origins for Some Common Expressions The Nautical Origins for Some Common Expressions: Explaining the seafaring origins of some common words, figures of speech, and everyday expressions, like "toe the line" and "scuttlebutt". (Word Play) http://www.fortogden.com/nauticalterms.html Crossword Puzzles for ESL Students Crossword Puzzles for ESL Students: A selection of online crossword puzzles sorted by difficulty. (Word Play) http://iteslj.org/cw/ Lost in Translation Lost in Translation: Enter a sentence to have it translated from English to five different languages and back. The result is often funny; nothing like the original sentence. (Word Play) http://www.tashian.com/multibabel/