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Freely available word games, listed alphabetically
(click on the game's entry for more info)
[A]
- [Alpha Playing Cards] -
A card game system that allows you to play several word games. Vowel cards are
semi-wild -- each vowel card lets you choose between two vowels.
- [Alphabet Runner] -
It’s more than just a game – it’s a battle of wits where imaginations are fired and
words are the weapons of choice. The alphabet cards are available in upper and lower
case Alphabet to download and print out.
- [Arepo] -
An abstract game based on the Latin magic square, currently only available in in Catalan and French.
[B]
- [BAG] -
psssst! Hey, buddy. What’s in the BAG?—- a creative thinking word game, minus
the letters and words, for two or more players
[C]
- [Cold Spell] -
Form the most valuable words with cards gathered from the playing field using the Icehouse pieces.
[D]
- [Don-Cha] -
Figure out your opponent's words before he deduces yours. An entry into the About.com: 2005 Deduction Game
Design Competition.
[H]
- [Hangman] -
The classic public domain pen and paper game. One player thinks of a word and the other tries to guess it
by suggesting letters.
[M]
- [Magic Spell] -
A combination of Concentration and Scrabble, set in a 'magician's school'. For three
or four students of the mystical arts.
- [Maven] -
Every player is given the same 25 letters, in the same order, and they compete to make the most of them.
[T]
- [Toy Train] -
You're building a train out of letters -- The goal of the Engine-Driver is to form the longest word he can;
on the other hand, the goal of the Braker is to form the shortest word he can.
- [Tumblewords] -
It’s like a cross between that game where you make words with tiles and that game
where you drop checkers into a vertical grid.
[W]
- [Wordfinger] -
The players take turns placing their fingers on the board. Each time a player
places a finger on the board, he calls out a letter. The first player to 5 points
wins.
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