swap_horiz Hangman Alternatives

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Crossword Puzzle

A crossword puzzle presents a grid of intersecting squares that must be filled with words. Clues provided indicate defin...

Classic Puzzle Solo Pencil Paper

9.5 Brilliant

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Scrabble

Scrabble is a tile-based word game where players form words on a board using letter tiles. Created by Alfred Butts in 19...

Classic Competitive Board Game Hasbro

9.0 Excellent

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Acrostic

Acrostic is a complex word puzzle combining a crossword format with a hidden quote, famously invented by Elizabeth Kings...

Classic Puzzle Solo Letters

8.6 Great

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Letterpress

Created by Atebits in 2012, Letterpress is an asynchronous multiplayer word game where players strategically form words...

Strategy Mobile Two Player Territory

8.5 Great

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Codenames XXL

Codenames XXL is an oversized edition of the acclaimed deduction game, notable for featuring double-sized cards and comp...

Large Format Team Party Deduction

8.4 Great

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Text Twist

Text Twist is a browser-based word game originally released by GameHouse in 2002 where players unscramble six letters to...

Classic PC Timed Anagram

8.2 Great

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Codenames Duet

Codenames Duet is a cooperative word game released in 2017, notable for adapting the original Codenames mechanics into a...

Cooperative Deduction Two Player Czech Games

8.1 Great

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Jumble

Jumble is a classic daily newspaper word puzzle created by Martin Dell in 1954 where players unscramble letters to form...

Classic Daily Anagram Newspaper Puzzle

8.0 Great

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Anagrams

Anagrams is a historic tile-based word game popular since the 19th century where players race to form words from flipped...

Classic Competitive Puzzle Verbal

8.0 Great

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Letter Jam

Letter Jam is a cooperative word game released in 2019, notable for requiring players to deduce their own hidden letters...

Party Cooperative Deduction Czech Games

7.9 Good

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Mad Libs

Created by Leonard Stern and Roger Price in 1958, Mad Libs is a famous party game where players fill in blanks with rand...

Classic Party Humorous Fill In Blank

7.8 Good

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Codenames Pictures

Codenames Pictures is a deduction-based word game published in 2016 by Czech Games Edition, notable for replacing word c...

Visual Team Party Deduction

7.6 Good

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Word Ladder

Word Ladder is a linguistic puzzle invented by Lewis Carroll in 1877 where players transform a starting word into a targ...

Classic Puzzle Transformation Pencil Paper

7.5 Good

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Cryptogram

Cryptogram is a historic puzzle type where a piece of text is encrypted using a simple substitution cipher, famously use...

Classic Puzzle Solo Cipher

7.5 Good

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Rebus

Rebus is a puzzle format that uses pictures, symbols, and letters to represent words or syllables, originating in 16th-c...

Classic Brain Teaser Party Visual Word

7.5 Good

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Werewords

Werewords is a hidden-role word game designed by Ted Alspach, notable for blending werewolf deduction mechanics with the...

Social Deduction Party Deduction Group

7.4 Good

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Jotto

Invented by Morton M. Rosenfeld in 1955, Jotto is a two-player deduction word game similar to Mastermind where players g...

Classic Deduction Two Player Pencil Paper

6.5 Fair

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20 Questions

20 Questions is a classic deductive reasoning parlor game where players ask up to twenty yes-or-no questions to correctl...

Classic Verbal Party Deduction

6.4 Fair

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Word Search

Word Search is a classic puzzle tasking players with finding hidden words in a grid of letters, first published by Norma...

Classic Puzzle Solo Pencil Paper

6.0 Fair

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Probe

Released by Parker Brothers in 1964, Probe is an award-winning word game where players attempt to guess opponents' secre...

Classic Family Deduction Hidden Word

5.1 Mediocre