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Word games can be of several different types:
Letter arrangement games, where the goal is to form words out of given letters:
- Anagrams (not to be confused with the linguistic recreation below)
- Boggle
- Option
- Pick Two
- Scrabble
- Swedish puzzles
- Upwords
Structured games, focussing on the semantics of words:
Linguistic recreations based around words and letters
- Anagrams
- Palindromes
- Pangrams
- Lipograms
See word play for literary works in which the nature of the words used themselves become part of the subject of the work.
