The internet offers a vast and almost overwhelming range of word games, from the traditional crosswords to vocabulary quizzes. Word games can be played for fun, learning, or to help improve English language skills. This article contains overviews of a selection of websites hosting free games for children, adults, and English language.

Word Games for Adults and Teenagers

Shockwave.com. Shockwave's Online Word Game section offers a large variety of themed games such as Hollywood Jumble (unscrambling words associated with that day's Hollywood theme) and QuoteSlide (solving the word puzzle to uncover famous quotes). A bonus with shockwave is that the games are rated by users, and reviews of the games are available by clicking on them.

Wordplays.com. This website is devoted entirely to word games, and though they are simple they are challenging and fun. Games on offer include crosswords, anagrams and word jumble. Word Play also has tools such as scrabble helper and a dictionary to help you out.

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