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

Letter arrangement games, where the goal is to form words out of given letters:

Anagrams
-- both a simple game of rearranging letters and a linguistic recreation of making anagrams that seem to illuminate something about the original word, such as "Old west action" for "Clint Eastwood".
Boggle
Scrabble
Hotspots Word Game
Swedish puzzles
Alpha Blitz
Upwords
Ghost
WildWords

Paper and pencil games/puzzles:

Acrostic puzzles
Crossword puzzles
Cryptogram
s
Hangman
Jotto
(or Giotto)
Word search

Structured games, focusing on the semantics of words:

Categories (game)
Charades
Fictionary
One, Two, Three
LINQ
Tennis-elbow-foot game

Linguistic recreations based around words and letters:

Anagram
as discussed above
Constrained writing
Ditloid
s
Gry
Palindrome
s
Pangram
s
Letter bank
s
Lipogram
s
The Man Who Melted Jack Dann
Oxenfez
Shiritori
Word golf
Word Sandwich
-- An online word-guessing game written by Robert McKee based on the Hi-Lo number-guessing game, made popular from the Clock Game on The Price is Right

Others inclide:

rebuses - picture puzzles representing a word
verbal arithmetic

See word play for literary works in which the nature of the words used themselves become part of the subject of the work. See language game for a linguistic variant.

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