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Word games and puzzles are generally engaged as a source of entertainment, but they have been found to serve a very useful and progressive educational purpose as well. For instance, young children can find enjoyment playing modestly competitive games such as Hangman, while naturally developing important language skills like spelling. Solving crossword puzzles, which requires familiarity with a larger vocabulary, is a pastime that mature adults have long credited with keeping their minds sharp.

Most word games and puzzles require, as ingredients of success, swiftness of thought, a well-developed vocabulary, and excellent general language skills, including comprehension and spelling. In turn, these same skills are generally thought to become that much more heightened with continued play.

There are popular televised word games with valuable monetary prizes for the winning contestants. Many word games enjoy international popularity across a multitude of languages, whilst some are peculiar to English-speakers.

Language-predicated educational games

A word game or word puzzle can be of several different types:

Letter arrangement games

The goal is to form words out of given letters.

Paper and pencil games/puzzles

Structured games

Games focusing on the semantics of words.

Linguistic recreations

Games based around words and letters.

Televised Games

Miscellaneous

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Computer and video game genres
puzzle is a problem or enigma that challenges ingenuity. In a basic puzzle you piece together objects in a logical way in order to come up with the desired shape, picture or solution.
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Entertainment is an event, performance, or activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation to an audience (although, for example, in the case of a computer game the "audience" may be only one person).
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Education encompasses teaching and learning specific skills, and also something less tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, positive judgment and well-developed wisdom.
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Competition is the rivalry of two or more parties over something. Competition occurs naturally between living organisms which coexist in an environment with limited resources. For example, animals compete over water supplies, food, and mates.
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Hangman may refer to:
  • a person who carries out hangings; see executioner
  • Hangman (game), involving guessing a word or phrase one letter at a time
  • “The Hangman” (poem), a children’s poem written by Maurice Ogden
  • The Hangman

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crossword is a word puzzle that normally takes the form of a square grid of black and white squares. The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues which lead to the answers.
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A vocabulary is a set of words known to a person or other entity, or that are part of a specific language.

The vocabulary of a person is defined either as the set of all words that are understood by that person or the set of all words likely to be used by that person when
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Comprehension has the following meanings:
  • In general usage, and more specifically in reference to education and psychology, it has roughly the same meaning as understanding.

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Television (often abbreviated to TV, T.V., or more recently, tv; sometimes called telly, the tube, boob tube, or idiot box in British English) is a widely used telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures
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prize is an award given to a person or a group of people to recognise and reward actions or achievements. Official prizes often involve monetary rewards as well as the fame that comes with them.
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A contestant is someone who takes part in a competition, usually a professional competition or a game show on television. The participants competing against each other have to go through rounds. The s may have to compete in later stages or rounds until there is just one winner.
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International or internationally most often describes interaction between nations, or encompassing two or more nations, constituting a group or association having members in two or more nations, or generally reaching beyond national boundaries.
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See Language (journal) for the linguistics journal.


A language is a system of symbols and the rules used to manipulate them. Language can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon.
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Writing system: Latin (English variant) 
Official status
Official language of: 53 countries
Regulated by: no official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1: en
ISO 639-2: eng
ISO 639-3: eng  
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Acrophobia, commonly referred to as Acro for short, and also known as Acromania, is a multi-round, multiplayer online Internet Relay Chat game. The game was originally conceived by Anthony Shubert and programmed by Kenrick Mock (aka Mach) and Michelle Hoyle (aka
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Alpha Blitz is a word game designed by Mike Selinker and published by Wizards of the Coast. Alpha Blitz is based on the concept of a letter bank, as players make words using the letter cards on the table as many times as they like (e.g.
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Anagrab

Players 2-8
Age range 8+
Setup time 2 minutes
Playing time ~20 minutes
Random chance Low
Skills required Strategy, Vocabulary, Spelling

Anagrab is a word game which is usually played with Scrabble tiles.
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Anagrams, Snatch, Snatch-words, or Grabscrab is a board-free word game that involves rearranging letter tiles to form words.

The game pieces consist of a set of tiles with letters on them.
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Clint Eastwood

Birth name Clinton Eastwood, Jr.
Born May 31 1930 (1930--) (age 77)
San Francisco, California

Years active 1955 - present

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Boggle is a word game designed by Allan Turoff and trademarked by Parker Brothers / Hasbro, Inc.

Rules

The play begins by randomizing a tray of sixteen cubic dice. Each die has a different letter printed on each of its sides.
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Euler's Day Off is a letter rearrangement word game.

Objective of the game

The object of the game is to arrange twenty five randomly selected letters in a five-by-five grid to form as many vertical and horizontal words as possible.
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Ghost is a word game in which players take turns adding letters to a growing word fragment, and trying not to be the one to complete a valid word. The one that does loses that round of the game. Each fragment must be the beginning of an actual word.
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Jumble, is a word puzzle in which a player is given a set of letters which, when arranged in the correct order, give the un-jumbled word. A simple example would be the set of letters "lbujme," which can then be rearranged to spell "jumble".
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Literati is a computer-based word game, originally created by Diana Gruber and Bob Provencher between 1990 and 1994. Its most popular incarnation is played through a browser on the Yahoo! Games network, although versions have also been released for Palm OS devices and
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Scrabble is a popular word game and board game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15-by-15 grid. The words are formed across and down in crossword fashion and must appear in a standard dictionary.
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Scribbage is a classic dice word game manufactured in the 1960's by the E. S. Lowe Company. 13 dice are rolled which have various letters on each side. Each letter is given a point value depending on its frequency in the English language.
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Scriptorium (plural scriptoria) comes from the medieval Latin script-, scribere (to write), where -orium is the neuter singular ending for adjectives describing place. Thus, a scriptorium is literally "a place for writing".
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Upwords is a board game invented by Elliot Rudell and published by Hasbro Games (a subsidiary of Hasbro). Upwords is similar to Scrabble, except that players can stack letters on top of other words to create new words.
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crossword is a word puzzle that normally takes the form of a square grid of black and white squares. The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues which lead to the answers.
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Cryptic crosswords are crossword puzzles of a special type: one in which each clue is a word puzzle in and of itself. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, as well as in several other Commonwealth nations, including South Africa, Australia, New Zealand,
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