- Wireless Power Word Game - Challenging word jumbles posted every week.
- 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.
- Wordies on the Web - Translate these arrangements of letters, numbers and/or symbols into a familiar phrase, saying, or cliché.
- Mockok.com - A large collection of palindromes, focusing on palindromic single sentences (spelling the same forwards and backwards). Submissions welcome.
- NOVA: Decoding Nazi Secrets - Crack the ciphers, send a coded message, and find out what goes on in the minds of code-breakers.
- eLibs.com - Creating interactive stories from user inputs. Possibility to add a dialect; also different categories and polls.
- Kid Crosswords and Other Puzzles - Choose from several puzzles created just for kids. New puzzles each month.
- 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".
- Phobias - Article that lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia -- the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
- Piece of Pi MadLibs - Featuring a collection of madlib stories and poetry.
- 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".
- Crossword Puzzles for ESL Students - A selection of online crossword puzzles sorted by difficulty.
- AskOxford: Word Games - Cryptic and easy crosswords, fiendish word games, the history of crosswords, and scrabble and behind the scenes at Countdown.
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