Word Play
Word Play
Word Play Links
- Poetry Magnet Fun Make poems with virtual poetry magnets. Submit your poems via email and have them posted.
- 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".
- Smurf the Web The WebSmurfer will translate any web page into Smurf jargon.
- Janet's Wordplay Site Articles, puzzles, and quizzes. Dozens of features about having fun with words.
- Linguistic Olympics Competition in which students solve puzzles based on real languages they have never learned. Site includes more than two dozen sample puzzles.
- Piece of Pi MadLibs Featuring a collection of madlib stories and poetry.
- NOVA: Decoding Nazi Secrets Crack the ciphers, send a coded message, and find out what goes on in the minds of code-breakers.
- 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.
- Ward School Mad Libs A collection of mad libs created by fourth graders.
- Phobias Article that lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia -- the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
- Kid Crosswords and Other Puzzles Choose from several puzzles created just for kids. New puzzles each month.
- Tween Talk Madlibs Have fun using your imagination and creating your own stories with madlibs.
- Wordies on the Web Translate these arrangements of letters, numbers and/or symbols into a familiar phrase, saying, or cliché.
- The Unjumbler Word jumble puzzle solver and anagram finder.
- 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".
- Mockok.com A large collection of palindromes, focusing on palindromic single sentences (spelling the same forwards and backwards). Submissions welcome.
- Wireless Power Word Game Challenging word jumbles posted every week.
- StoryMe.com Online fun generator allows users to dynamically create wild excuses, wacky madlibs, silly stories and tall tales, then email their creations to family and friends.
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