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The Unjumbler - Word jumble puzzle solver and anagram finder.
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.
Wordies on the Web - Translate these arrangements of letters, numbers and/or symbols into a familiar phrase, saying, or cliché.
Mockok.com - A large collection of palindromes, focusing on palindromic single sentences (spelling the same forwards and backwards). Submissions welcome.
Janet's Wordplay Site - Articles, puzzles, and quizzes. Dozens of features about having fun with words.
NOVA: Decoding Nazi Secrets - Crack the ciphers, send a coded message, and find out what goes on in the minds of code-breakers.
eLibs.com - Creating interactive stories from user inputs. Possibility to add a dialect; also different categories and polls.
Smurf the Web - The WebSmurfer will translate any web page into Smurf jargon.
Kid Crosswords and Other Puzzles - Choose from several puzzles created just for kids. New puzzles each month.
Linguistic Olympics - Competition in which students solve puzzles based on real languages they have never learned. Site includes more than two dozen sample puzzles.
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".
Phobias - Article that lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia -- the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
Piece of Pi MadLibs - Featuring a collection of madlib stories and poetry.
Tween Talk Madlibs - Have fun using your imagination and creating your own stories with madlibs.
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".
Crossword Puzzles for ESL Students - A selection of online crossword puzzles sorted by difficulty.
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