swap_horiz Text Twist 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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Bookworm Adventures

Bookworm Adventures is a PC game developed by PopCap where players engage in action-oriented word games. The title blend...

Action Casual PC Popcap

9.4 Excellent

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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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Big Boggle

An expanded Hasbro edition of Boggle using a 5×5 letter grid instead of the standard 4×4, enabling longer words and incr...

Classic Board Game Timed Hasbro

8.2 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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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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TextTwist 2

Released by GameHouse in 2008, TextTwist 2 is the sequel to the popular online word game that expands upon the original...

PC Sequel Timed Anagram

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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Cranium

Created by Richard Tait and Whit Alexander in 1998, Cranium is a notable party game combining multiple talents like triv...

Classic Team Party Hasbro

7.2 Good

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Hangman

Hangman is a classic paper-and-pencil guessing game for two or more players, with recorded origins in late 19th-century...

Classic Deduction Two Player Pencil Paper

7.2 Good

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Charades

Originating in 18th-century France, Charades is a classic parlor game where players use silent mime and hand gestures to...

Classic Team Acting Party

7.1 Good

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Shiritori

Shiritori is a traditional Japanese word chain game where players must say a word that begins with the final syllable of...

Classic Japanese Verbal Sequential

7.0 Good

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Pass the Bomb

A fast-paced word game by Piatnik where players must say a word containing a given letter cluster before a randomly time...

Fast Paced Party Game Timed Blurting

7.0 Good

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Snatch-It

A tile-based word game where players grab letters from a central pool to build words and can steal opponents' words by a...

Speed Competitive Card Game Set Enterprises

7.0 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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Perquackey

Perquackey is a vintage word game originally published in the 1950s where players roll lettered dice and use a timer to...

Classic Competitive Dice Lakeside

5.4 Mediocre