Scrabble, Word Games, Puzzles and Children

Scrabble, Word Games, Puzzles

and Children

Various word games, puzzles online or offline are not just a source of entertainment, but also they serve as educational means to develop the childrens' abilities such as language skills like spelling, comprehension and vocabulary.

Word games you can play with your children may be classified as follows:

Paper and pencil games:

Hangman
Jotto
Acrostic puzzles
Crossword puzzles
Cryptograms

Structured games which focus on the semantics of words and phrases:

Taboo
Charades
Categories
Fictionary

Letter arrangement games, where the aim is to build words out of given letters:

Anagrams
Literati
Boggle
Option
Pick Two
Scrabble
Scrabulous
Swedish puzzles
Upwords



Linguistic recreations based around words and letters:

Anagrams
Palindromes
Pangrams
Lipograms