Free Word Games

Freely available print-and-play word games


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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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