Word Games at The Gameroom

Language is the glue that holds our culture together: family, work, even thoughts and dreams are built on words, books, and conversations. It is strange, then, that we are not even conscious of using language and are often surprised by it. Now you can explore all the complexities and nuances of language in the YourDictionary libraries, such as the one below, or by playing games with words and phrases here in the gameroom. Nothing is more playfully human or humanly playful as language.

So you like word games, do you? Well, you have come to the right place. We have the richest assortment of crossword puzzles on the planet: anagram puzzles, cryptic puzzles, Roman and Arabic numeral puzzles, study puzzles for geography, physics, astronomy, Spanish and the Bible, puzzles with holiday messages, with graphics and web links. Now we have crossword puzzles for kids. We also have encrypted word puzzles and a new invention: fill-in crossword puzzles! Choose your favorite now!

  • Word Professor Game - New
  • Word Cube Game - New
  • Word Scramble Game - New
  • Crazy Crossword Game - New
  • Word Search Game - New
  • Cryptogram Game - New
  • 20 Different Kinds of Crosswords
  • Word of the Day Crossword Puzzles
  • Word of the Day Semantic Scramble
  • Word Jungles
  • Encrypted Enigma Machine Puzzles
  • Fill-in Puzzles
  • Crossword Puzzles in Other Languages

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    The YDC Non-Writing Center

    Everything You Need to Avoid Writing Anything Ever

    YourDictionary.com's Hot Mod Automatic Memo Generator
    Now you don't have to keep up with the latest buzzwords in the tech industry. If you need a memo, let us write it for you in the very latest in buzzologisms.

    Postmodernist Scholarship Generator
    How do you want to spend spring break—slaving over another postmodernist piece or sipping piña coladas on the sands of Acapulco? Every time you click this link, you get a new article, each (after the first) as brilliant and penetrating as the previous. Footnotes at no extra cost. Need a book? String 20 together!

    Country Song Generator
    Now that you have that steel guitar, this is all you need to take Nashville by storm.

    Automatic Complaint Generator by Scott Pakin
    Why repeat yourself all the time?

    Write your Name in Exotic Alphabets!

    WRITE YOUR NAME IN EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHS


    Write your name phonetically in the window, then click 'GO'. (16 letters maximum)
    Courtesy of UPenn Museum of Archeology & Anthropology

    Other Languages

    Other Word Games and Fun

    Word Games at east of the web
    A website with many fun games to test your knowledge while working against the clock.

    Weird words and their definitions
    Find words that are obscure, rare and old.

    Letter to Santa Generator
    Try this fun and easy to use Santa letter generator.

    FunBrain.com Kids Center
    The FunBrain website has many games for kids which help them learn words, spelling and usage.

    Etymologic! The Toughest Word Game on the Web
    Answer 10 questions on etymology and definitions to test your knowledge on randomly selected words.

    National Spelling Bee
    The website of the Scripps National Spelling bee where US kids compete at conquering one of the world's most exasperating orthographies.

    Mondegreens

    These slips of the ear include all misanalyzed phrases and not just misunderstood Lyrics, as some websites claim. The arise from drawing the line between words in the wrong places.

  • More Mondegreens, including the original

    • Fun Words
    Martha Barnette is a new logophiliac with a hatful of words with surprising histories. If you love our Word of the Day, you will love this website, too.

    The Pseudodictionary
    A searchable list of concocted words, sniglets, blends that look remarkably like words—but aren't. Lots of fun and you can add your own if its good enough.

    Scripple A game that looks a lot like Scrapple. Available in Dutch or English. The download was safe when we tested it.

    Palindromes
    Words and phrases that are spelled the same way forwards or backwards.

  • Neil & Fred's 500 Palindromes
  • Palindromes from Think.com
  • Palindrome Bob's
  • Palindrome.com
  • Multilingual palindrome list

    Collective Nouns
    This list contains many fanciful suggestions of varying quality most of which have never been published but nonetheless represent quite an amusement of words.

    House of Logorrhea (11,387 arcane words)
    Here is the word list you have all been waiting for: words that have become obsolete for good reason. Still, they each have a small story about our history to tell.

    The Numbers 1-10 in over 4500 Languages • En français
    At last, you will be able to count to ten in more languages than anyone on your block! You will be the international financial whiz-kid of the office, handling all transactions of up to 10 units of any currency in the world!

    The Collected Works of the Phantom Linguist
    The Phantom Linguist haunted the halls of Bucknell University for a quarter century, posting free knowledge about every aspect of language in short, amusing essays to every public message board. YourDictionary.com has now collected all of those essays so you can reap the benefits from them. It is free knowledge! Enjoy!

    Tongue-Twisters from Around the World
    Zungenbrecher, trabalenguas, skorogovorki, virelangues, scioglilingua, hayakuchi kotoba—tie up your tongue in 87 different languages.

    A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
    Palindromes, long words, short words, sentences with the entire alphabet in them, plus scads of other verbal oddities.

    Jennifer's Language Pages
    Greetings, "Thank you," "How are you," "Who are you," and a dozen other words and phrases in hundreds of different languages!

    The Origin of Language
    A NPR Science Friday discussion with Ira Flatow and three (yes, three!) famous linguists. You will need the Real Audio plugin for your browser.

    Online Games & Video Games
    Get reviews, tips and cheats for online games, computer games and video games of all types.

    (Possibly) the Longest Place Name in the World
    . . . with a picture that (maybe) proves it.

    The Third English Word Ending on -gry
    A bad riddle run amok.

    World Wide Words
    New words, weird words, phrases that glow in the dark–Michael Quinion has them all.

    Take Our Word for It
    And now . . . a weekly word webzine, full of spanking good etymologies.

    The Awful German Language by Mark Twain
    Mark Twain wrote this essay while waiting for a German verb.

    The Chaos
    English is tough stuff: here is a poem essential to the understanding of English spelling.

    A Little Etymology
    Hardly enough to whet the appetite.

    Etymology of Names
    Know what your name originally meant?

    The Klingon Language Institute
    Weirder than the Bucknell Linguistics Program.

    Shades of Meaning
    Terry Light's witty exploration of the semantic shadings of phonologically similar words.

    The Simplified Spelling Society
    Tired worrying about spelling? Here's the organization for you!

    Sniglets: Things for which there are no words.

    Where Do Languages Come From? by Merritt Ruhlen
    An in-depth discussion of historical linguistics focussed on the origins of Indo-European languages.

    The Word Detective a newspaper column by Edward Morris.

    Word Oddities and Trivia
    Everything you every wanted to know about words--and then some!

    WordPlay
    Lots more links to fun with words.

    Words That Mean the Opposite of Themselves (Antagonyms?)
    Richard Lederer may have already named these semantic oddities.

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