Children - Games - Word Play
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Wireless Power Word Game
- Challenging word jumbles posted every week.
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The Unjumbler
- Word jumble puzzle solver and anagram finder.
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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.
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Wordies on the Web
- Translate these arrangements of letters, numbers and/or symbols into a familiar phrase, saying, or cliché.
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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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Mockok.com
- A large collection of palindromes, focusing on palindromic single sentences (spelling the same forwards and backwards). Submissions welcome.
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Janet's Wordplay Site
- Articles, puzzles, and quizzes. Dozens of features about having fun with words.
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NOVA: Decoding Nazi Secrets
- Crack the ciphers, send a coded message, and find out what goes on in the minds of code-breakers.
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eLibs.com
- Creating interactive stories from user inputs. Possibility to add a dialect; also different categories and polls.
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Smurf the Web
- The WebSmurfer will translate any web page into Smurf jargon.
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Kid Crosswords and Other Puzzles
- Choose from several puzzles created just for kids. New puzzles each month.
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Linguistic Olympics
- Competition in which students solve puzzles based on real languages they have never learned. Site includes more than two dozen sample puzzles.
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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".
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Phobias
- Article that lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia -- the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
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Piece of Pi MadLibs
- Featuring a collection of madlib stories and poetry.
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Tween Talk Madlibs
- Have fun using your imagination and creating your own stories with madlibs.
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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".
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Thunk.com
- Secret language scrambler/descrambler and jokes with scrambled answers.
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Corey Green: Pig Latin Lessons
- Gives kids detailed instructions on how to speak Pig Latin, with accompanying sound files in RealPlayer format.
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ZOOM: Ubbi Dubbi Translator
- The secret language of this children's television program revealed. Type in text and have it translated from or into Ubbi Dubbi.
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Ysticalmay Okingsmay Eadhay ofyay 'Obbay'
- Online oracle. Ask the Mystical Smoking Head of Bob a question and he will answer in Pig Latin, as well as a number of other languages.
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Furby Dictionary
- List of words and sayings in Furbish, spoken by Furby.
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Ubi Lubove Yubou
- Text, lyrics and MP3 download of "I Love You" in Ubbi Dubbi. Brief explanation of this play language.
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Winnie the Pooh and Friends: Igletpay'say Agepay
- Piglet's page in Pig Latin.
