AskOxford: Word Games - http://www.askoxford.com/wordgames/?view=uk
Cryptic and easy crosswords, fiendish word games, the history of crosswords, and scrabble and behind the scenes at Countdown. |
Crossword Puzzles for ESL Students - http://iteslj.org/cw/
A selection of online crossword puzzles sorted by difficulty. |
eLibs.com - http://www.elibs.com/
Creating interactive stories from user inputs. Possibility to add a dialect; also different categories and polls. |
Jim Kalb's Palindrome Connection - http://www.nyx.net/~jkalb/palindromes/
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". |
Kid Crosswords and Other Puzzles - http://www.kidcrosswords.com/
Choose from several puzzles created just for kids. New puzzles each month. |
Lost in Translation - http://www.tashian.com/multibabel/
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. |
Mockok.com - http://www.mockok.com/
A large collection of palindromes, focusing on palindromic single sentences (spelling the same forwards and backwards). Submissions welcome. |
NOVA: Decoding Nazi Secrets - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/decoding/
Crack the ciphers, send a coded message, and find out what goes on in the minds of code-breakers. |
Phobias - http://www.geocities.com/nallen20/FunnyPhobias.txt
Article that lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia -- the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth. |
Piece of Pi MadLibs - http://madlibs.freeservers.com/
Featuring a collection of madlib stories and poetry. |