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A real-time live word search puzzle, every time you visit the page you will see completely different and unique puzzles. Don'tn like the one you get? Press the refresh button on your browser and see a new one.

Play a competitive word game opponent in a fully customisable manner, anagram from seven letters and place them on a board of your design, hone your anagramming skills and increase your vocabulary with each use. Select any dictionary; set the level of difficulty; choose letter frequencies and values; analyze your games, step by step, as well as producing text game reports with all the best moves listed; save games. Review your games and learn what moves you could have made, train yourself to excel whilst having fun!

Play the ghost word game against WinGhost, try to avoid spelling words of four or more letters. You move first by typing a letter, you and WinGhost take turns adding a letter to the end until someone completes a word, at which point that player loses. Each letter must lead toward an English word. Proper nouns are not allowed. Remember, if you complete a word of four or more letters, you lose! WinGhost comes with a professional installer.

Welcome to the world of E-Puzzle Books, the computerized version of those small puzzle magazines you can find at your local news stand. E-Puzzle Books contain a large variety of word, number, logic and visual puzzles. There are word puzzles like Cryptograms and Word Scrambles; Number puzzles like "All-are-Equal" and "Choose-Your-Operators" and Logical Games like "Mail Express" and "Logical Golf". This E-Puzzle Book Reader comes with 2 books, but more are available in the E-Puzzle Book Library found on the Reasonable Games website. Some books are free, others require you to be a member of the Reasonable Games website.

WinJumble is an anagram finder and word unscrambler, it accepts input of two through thirty-one letters and finds (almost) all of the English words that can be made from the letters. WinJumble knows about 376,000 English words and can help you (1) Find word anagrams (try senator and see what word follows it in the list), (2) Unscramble jumbled words (try aeiouqs).

Countdown to Solution is a program which solves the UK TV game show 'Countdown'. The user inputs up to seven letters and the program generates as many words as possible from these letters. A dictionary of several thousand words is available as a separate download and users can easily edit and upgrade the dictionary to satisfy their lexical desires.

Classic WordZap is a Freeware word game where you race your computer opponent to create the most unique words from a given set of letters. When opponents make the same word, it is zapped from both lists. This is a re-mastered version of the game that was widely distributed in Microsoft's Entertainment Pack III. The computer's play adapts to your skill to keep the game a constant challenge.

Cricklers are a new type of word puzzle - a total re-invention of the crossword puzzle for the computer age. Cricklers adapt: they become easier or harder depending on the skill of the solver. Clues and answers sit side by side, you can see which letters are vowels, and you get a reassuring sound when you complete a clue correctly. Choose from "News Puzzle": A new crickler puzzle every day based on current news events - "Crossword": A new crickler crossword puzzle every day - "Enigma": A classic word puzzle, decipher two new quotations every day. Play one or play them all.

Letters fall, one at a time, and the user must place them to form words, either horizontally or vertically, Tetris-style. WordTrix uses a dictionary of over 30,000 words, acronyms, and names. WordTrix has a built-in online high score system which allows for people to automatically submit their scores to the official website for bragging rights.

Try to save the smart mouthed Kangaroo from a good old fashioned neck stretching. A classic game we all played as kids - Hang Man - has undergone a major face lift with NCBuy's slick HangARoo. The object is simple ... guess the phrases by selecting letters from the alphabet to fill in the slots. If you make too many errors, you know what happens next - the cute Kangaroo will be earning his wings. Luckily, even if you do send the 'roo to the outback in the sky, you won't feel too guilty. His quick wit and smart tongue will sometimes have you begging to kill him off.

In Josho for Windows you try to determine what secret word Josho has thought of and at the same time Josho tries to guess your secret word. You obtain information about Josho's secret word by supplying Josho with "test" words - Josho will tell you how many letters in your test word also appear in his secret word. Josho will also try to guess your secret word using test words. Use the built-in "Word Worksheet" to help you keep track of letters and to help suggest test words. Who's smarter - you or your computer? Find out with a quick round of Josho for Windows!

This is a word scramble game with around 3500 words - You are presented with a list of ten words, chosen randomly from the program's dictionary and then scrambled. Beside each word is an edit box for you to type in what you think the correct word is - fill in all ten then click on 'Check' to find out if your answers are right!

WordSearch is a game based on the popular board game Boggle(TM)and you play against the computer. It "learns" as you play and adds new words that you find to the built in dictionary so you must be careful about misspellings! You can edit the dictionary with a text editor to add or delete words. It is text-based, which means it has no fancy graphics, and that it runs easily and fast even on old systems. Runs on Win95, Win98, WinME, Win2K.

Looking for a game to challenge your vocabulary? Or planning to challenge a friend? Words of Fortune is a very popular and challenging word game which allows you to play alone, in tournament or in practice mode, or play with a friend in tournament mode. Similar to wheel of fortune but has tons of features to provide you with hours of fun and amusement. Different levels of challenges. 7 challenging categories (Random, Famous People, Phrase, Places, General, Technical, SAT/GRE). Only game that has a dedicated Word Category for SAT/GRE students. Make your own category and custom word list to play with. Lots more features!

An educational and interactive word game, based on the traditional hangman theme where the player uses a panel of letters to guess a mystery word with the help of a pictorial clue. The game may be played in several language modes; You can create your own word and picture databases; you can create new language dictionaries. Under the "competition" mode you can play more types of games and you can save your results under TOP10 in all game modes. Includes the following languages: Dutch, English, French, Fijian, German, Italian, Hungarian, Japanese, Maori, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tongan.

Jumble 3.0 is a word game in which your task is to unscramble a familiar catchphrase. For each letter in the phrase you get from three to six choices. You must pick the right ones to recover the jumbled phrase. Configurable phrase lists! Five time limit options! Four difficulty levels!

Whirlwords is based on the familiar pencil-and-paper word chain puzzles that require you to connect two words by a series of steps in which you change one letter at a time. Our version extends the concept by providing six types of transitions from one word to the next instead of only one. Whirlwords comes with more than 100 puzzles in order of increasing difficulty. It also features a nifty graphical interface, a built-in editor so that you can construct your own puzzles, complete on-line help, and a vocabulary of more than 5,000 words.

This is a FREE 3D hangman game. You have to guess a word letter by letter, and each wrong answer brings your 3D hangman closer to death. The game includes two different word lists with tons of words (45,408 English words, 75,320 German words). Latin and Italian word lists available on home page.