Before and After - The object is to fill in the blanks. Example: "____ day ____" becomes "Sun day light", that is, "Sunday" and "Daylight".
Bovilexics.com - Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.
A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia - Includes book of word records, palindromic words, pangrams, most beautiful and ugly words, Scrabble words, and Bible word trivia.
The Collective Noun Page - Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'.
Corsinet.com - Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes.
Dave's Fun Words - Categorized list of words which are fun to say.
Dislexicon Word Generator - Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them.
Divinest-Sense.com: Tom Swifties - Definition of this style of play on words, a collection of original and previously-known examples, and links to other collections.
Euler's Day Off - Rearrange a five-by-five grid of letters to form words in crossword fashion. There is a daily puzzle with no registration.
Family Travel Games - A book of family-oriented wordplay to occupy time during road trips, from easy to challenging. No additional implements needed.
Faulkner or Machine Translation? - A quiz to determine whether literary passages are the Faulkner originals or ones machine-translated from German into English.
The Fictionary - Contains new, made-up words which are combinations of other words. Accepts contributions.
Fun With Words - Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.
Funny Names Site - Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats.
Funnyname.com - A collection of amusing, interesting, strange, and occasionally rude names from the phone book.
Fun-with-words.com - Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay.
Loquacious Lipograms - Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.
Lost in Translation - See what happens when an English phrase is translated by computer back and forth between 5 different languages. Confusion results.
The Mother of All Excuses Place - Over 900 excuses to not go to work or school, police and accidents, breaking dates, doctor, missing church, diet, and taxes.
Ms-Sam-Antics - Oxymora, famous last words and Confucius Says are just some of the wordplay included.
National Public Radio - New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge.
Word Games Software - Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.
Word Masher - Scrambles your text but leaves the first and last letter of each word intact. The result is readable if you have a good vocabulary.
Word Skit - Linguistic contortions, weird and wonderful words, plus quotations.
Word Soup Without Vowels - A 12x13 diagram contains various letters in it--without vowels. Find as many words in the diagram and e-mail in your answers. Also Spanish-oriented.
The Word Spy - Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.
Wordage: The Game of Words - Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths.
Word-Jumble.com - Unscramble mixed-up letters dealing with sports, books, music and miscellaneous. Click on the scrambles to find their answers.
Wordorium - A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers.
You Grok - Use the clues to determine the subject of the puzzle. Inspired by Robert Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land.”
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