Puzzles are usually grouped together into four groups: logic puzzles, mechanical puzzles, word puzzles, and other puzzles. Logic puzzles involve no guesswork, everything is solved using logic. There are many types of logic puzzles such as sudoku, cryptograms, brain teasers, and more. The numbers 1 through 9 are placed once in each column, row, and square in the grid with no duplicates. Learn more about sudoku puzzles, grab some free printable puzzles, or buy a sudoku puzzle book.
The first number or letter 1 or A is pre-placed somewhere in the grid. The goal of the puzzle is to fill in all the cells so that all numbers or letters 1 to 25 or A to Y appear exactly once.
Around the edges of the grid are clues to help you. Learn more about path puzzles, grab some free printable puzzles, or buy a path puzzle book. Hitori is a logic puzzle played in a grid. The object is to shade squares leaving a single continuous area unshaded. Learn more about hitori puzzles, grab some free printable puzzles, or buy a hitori puzzle book.
Mine Finder is a logic puzzle with a series of mines that are randomly hidden in a grid. Learn more about mine finder puzzles, grab some free printable puzzles, or buy a mine finder puzzle book. Kakurasu is played on an empty grid. The goal using the clues provided is to figure out which cells need to be colored and which ones should be left blank.
Learn more about kakurasu, grab some free printable puzzles, or buy a kakurasu puzzle book. Brain Teasers are a group of logical puzzles that require thought to be solved. No pen or paper is typically required! There are several common types of brain teasers including riddles, syllogisms, truth tellers and liars, and more. A nonogram is a grid puzzle where you fill in the grid based on the numbers at the top and to the side.
Battleship Solitaire is a puzzle based on the popular board game, Battleship. Unlike the game, the puzzle is designed to be played alone. The puzzle consists of a grid with numbers indicating how many spaces contain pieces of a ship.
That would be like a crossword puzzle with just one clue. As with most word puzzles, a good word jumble should have several mini puzzles, tied together with a theme - preferably something curious or chuckle-worthy.
And that is exactly the kind of jumble puzzle that became famous in newspapers around the world in the s. On the left had side of the puzzle you can see four horizontal rows of squares. These are basic anagram puzzles. See how some of the squares have circles inscribed? These letters form the basis of a fifth anagram puzzle represented by the row of squares with circles inscribed at the very bottom of the puzzle.
Now the anagram at the bottom of the word jumble - technically, the solution to the puzzle - is often a phrase, and obviously requires a clue. Where is it? In this example, the clue is the cartoon. The answer to the final anagram should make the text of the cartoon make sense, and will usually be something funny. To see what I mean, have a go at solving this puzzle.
When you're done, you can check your answer by clicking on the image. So you can see here how a good word jumble goes well beyond simple, unconnected anagrams. A theme, usually humorous, is provided, often in the form of a cartoon or riddle, and this theme ties all the small puzzles together into a meaningful whole.
The result is that small-but-satisfying 'Aha! Word Searches are perhaps the simplest of the classic word puzzles. Not that they are necessarily easy to solve mind you. A tricky one can take hours!
But the idea is ridiculously simple You are presented with a list of words and a grid filled with a random-looking arrangement of letters. Your job is to find each word in the grid such that the letters in the word form a straight line-segment horizontal, vertical, diagonal, forwards, or backwards. Here's an example of a wordsearch puzzle I created for spelling bee practice. NOTE - The example word search puzzle below is not printable.
Even better! You can solve it online right here using your mouse and keyboard. It's all pretty intuitive, but if it doesn't seem to be behaving for you, just click Help.
You must use a Java enabled browser to solve this puzzle. As you might gather from this example, wordsearch puzzles are particularly good for reinforcing spelling. The reason for this is that you have to scrutinize each letter and its successor in the grid, rather than just glancing at letter sequences as we do when we read. You'll be forced to go back to your list, re-examine the word, and consciously register the double- M. The use of themes , rather than ad hoc word lists, can also be used to improve vocabulary and general knowledge.
It's not as good as a definition, but it's certainly better than having no idea at all, right? The goal is to find all of the words that fit rather than finding every single word. The game includes over 5, puzzles many with themes , simple mechanics, and a couple of different game modes. The game features some rather obnoxious advertising and that makes it less friendly to free players.
It plays basically just like Scrabble. You and another player get some letters. You place them on a board to generate points. The player with the most points wins the game. This is a full online multiplayer experience, but you can play solo if you want to.
The game play itself is perfectly fine and looks good. All three are excellent freemium word games. You can also find an official Scrabble game on Google Play, but this one is better. Word Search by Melimots is just a simple, basic word search game. We figured with all of these weird hybrids that a good, simple, free word search game would be a good addition. It plays like you would expect. Each word has its own highlight color and you can customize the size of the font in case you want it larger or smaller.
The game also keeps track of your highest scores if you want to see those later. The game does have the occasional crash and the occasional bug. You get a series of letters and you fill in the crossword section above. The game features hundreds of levels that get more difficult as you go. It also boasts no time limits, support for dozens of languages, full offline support, and more. The game is also kid-friendly because a lot of the early puzzles are ridiculously easy.
Those looking for a true challenge may not find this game difficult enough to sate those needs. This is a word search type game with loads of different levels to play. You can play it alone or with Facebook friends. As with other apps, this is a great one for developing your spelling and vocabulary. This game works a bit like a crossword: each puzzle has seven clues, seven mystery words, and 20 tiles that include groups of letters. This classic word-building game is hugely popular, and you can play against your Facebook or Twitter friends, or against a random opponent.
It works just like Scrabble, where you have seven letter tiles and add them to a board. What if you want a writing-related game you can play while taking a break at your computer? All of these are games that you can play in your browser: some involve a lot of writing and are essentially story-telling apps, whereas others are essentially digital versions of traditional pen and paper games.
Unless otherwise noted, these games are free. This is a digital version of Hangman, which we covered above. You choose a category for words e. In Word Wipe, you swipe adjacent tiles including diagonals to create words, a bit like in Boggle. Since the easiest words to create are short, simple ones, this is a great game for children or for adults who want to get better at spelling. As you might expect, this is a crossword game! It looks very much like a traditional crossword, and you simply click on a clue then type in your answer.
The clues are straightforward rather than cryptic, though probably not easy enough to make this a good app for children or for English learners. You lay out your story as different cards and create connections between them.
Like Twine, Storium is designed to help you tell stories … but these stories are written in collaboration with others. You can either join a story as a character within it, or you can narrate a story — so this is a great game for building lots of different big-picture fiction-writing skills. This game combines a fantasy RPG setting where you fight monsters, get loot, gain levels and so on , with word games to play along the way. It could be a good way to encourage a reluctant young teen writer to have fun playing with words — or you might simply enjoy playing it yourself.
This game is an interactive story, told in the form of letters epistolary. The graphics are gorgeous — playing the game is like turning the pages of a book. Writing Challenge can be used alone or with friends, creating a collaborative story by racing against the clock. You can use it as an app on your phone, as well as on your computer, so you can add to your stories at any time.
Plot Generator works a bit like Mad Libs: you select a particular type of story e. The website creates the finished piece for you. There are also options for story ideas essentially writing prompts , character generators, and much more on the site.
Some of the options, like Fairy Tale, are great to use with young children — others may not be so suitable, so do vet the different options first.
You can make choices about what Dan should do to reach his goals in different areas of his life — and the decisions you make affect what happens next in the game. Typing might seem like an odd thing to include on a list of writing games. While most people find that their typing does naturally improve with practice, these games are all quick ways for you or your kids to get that practice in a fun way.
Obviously, all of these games should help to improve typing skills: those which involve whole words may also help with spelling and vocabulary. This game is designed to teach children touch type type without looking at the keyboard. Other letters are gradually added in as the game progresses.
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