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Wireless Power Word Game
Challenging word jumbles posted every week.
http://www.wirelesspower.com/
The Unjumbler
Word jumble puzzle solver and anagram finder.
http://www.unjumbler.com/
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.
http://www.tashian.com/multibabel/
Wordies on the Web
Translate these arrangements of letters, numbers and/or symbols into a familiar phrase, saying, or cliché.
http://www.cyg.net/~ddoctor/
Mockok.com
A large collection of palindromes, focusing on palindromic single sentences (spelling the same forwards and backwards). Submissions welcome.
http://www.mockok.com/
Janet's Wordplay Site
Articles, puzzles, and quizzes. Dozens of features about having fun with words.
http://www.jy-muggeridge.freeserve.co.uk/
NOVA: Decoding Nazi Secrets
Crack the ciphers, send a coded message, and find out what goes on in the minds of code-breakers.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/decoding/
eLibs.com
Creating interactive stories from user inputs. Possibility to add a dialect; also different categories and polls.
http://www.elibs.com/
Smurf the Web
The WebSmurfer will translate any web page into Smurf jargon.
http://websmurfer.devnull.net/
Kid Crosswords and Other Puzzles
Choose from several puzzles created just for kids. New puzzles each month.
http://www.kidcrosswords.com/
Linguistic Olympics
Competition in which students solve puzzles based on real languages they have never learned. Site includes more than two dozen sample puzzles.
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~tpayne/lingolym/
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".
http://www.fortogden.com/nauticalterms.html
Phobias
Article that lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia -- the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
http://www.geocities.com/nallen20/FunnyPhobias.txt
Piece of Pi MadLibs
Featuring a collection of madlib stories and poetry.
http://madlibs.freeservers.com/
Tween Talk Madlibs
Have fun using your imagination and creating your own stories with madlibs.
http://www.tweentalk.net/madlibs.html
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".
http://www.palindromes.org/
Crossword Puzzles for ESL Students
A selection of online crossword puzzles sorted by difficulty.
http://iteslj.org/cw/
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