- Word searches and crossword puzzles are common word games. You can find various versions of these games online. If you are looking for a traditional crossword puzzle, Yahoo! games publishes puzzles in various themes along with its weekly Sunday Challenge. For those who want an extra crosswords challenge, Pogo.com offers online Scrabble. Scrabble allows players to make their own crossword puzzle from letters drawn at random. Shockwave.com features a free word game called Word Roundup, in which players use crossword-puzzle clues to figure out what words they're searching for in a word-search puzzle. GreatDaysGames.com offers themed word searches in a game titled Word Search.
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Word scrambles give players a stack of letters and ask them to make as many words as possible from those letters. Super Text Twist gives players six letters, which they can shuffle around onscreen, along with a list of blank spaces for all the words that can be made. Finding the six-letter word will automatically gain you passage to the next level. The game Bookworm displays rows of letters, and players must connect letters touching each other to form a word. Skillful players can make lengthy combinations.
Babel Deluxe, offered by GameHouse.com, combines a series of word games. For each level, the player chooses a game at random. If the player scores high enough, a new level is added to the tower. If he scores too low, however, the tower becomes shaky. Let the tower get too shaky, and it will collapse. The minigames that make up each level consist of word scrambles along with matching and search games. - Many online game sites offer free word-puzzle games. In addition to crossword puzzles and word scrambles, they offer their own word-puzzle adventure games. Some online game sites include Yahoo! Games, Pogo.com, GreatDayGames.com, AddictingGames.com, GameHouse.com, Shockwave.com and PopCap.com. Certain games may be available on multiple sites, while others are specific to one company.
