Word games are not only fun, they also

encourage learning and cognitive health.

EIGHT WORD PUZZLE TYPES:
 

• Anagrams: create as many words as you can with letters that are provided.
  Examples: Boggle and Bananagram
   

• Crosswords: answer clues with words that fill a grid
   

• Cryptograms or Ciphers: crack a code based on letter replacement 
   

• Letter arrangements: create words using a set number of letters.
  Example: Scrabble
   

• Rebus: words and pictures are arranged in a way that they depict words and/or phrases
   

• Semantic games: this type of game plays with your factual knowledge of the meaning of words.
  Example: Mad Libs
   

• Word jumbles: rearrange letters to form a word
   

• Word search: look for given words within a grid of letters

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Check out these popular word games:

• Apples to Apples 

• Bananagrams 

• Boggle 

• Codenames 

• Dabble 

• Last Word 

• Letter Tycoon

• Mad Libs 

• Pass the Bomb

• Scrabble 

• Story cubes

• Zingo!
   

What's your favorite word puzzle game?

Try making your very own game!