Word Games:
Gaggle
These games are designed to teach youngsters the special words used to describe groups of animals, such as groups of bears or larks. The game begins with an intro lesson on the words, moves along to a basic game and then on to the Gaggle Challenge.
Internet Anagram Server
An anagram is a word or phrase formed by reordering the letters of another word or phrase, and this interactive tool can do the work for you. Enter text, click the button and you're presented with a list of anagrams -- some good, some nonsensical.
Java Puzzle Collection
All but one of the puzzles in this Java collection are word games. Find an online word search, a word slide and a crossword puzzle. Once you've solved those, move along to a Concentration-type game called Foreign Exchange.
Kids' Crambo
Crambo is a game in which one player supplies a rhyming response to another player's line. Naturally, such an exercise can lead to some pretty silly couplets. Play online as many times as you want, or take a look at other people's crambo responses.
Mags' Puzzle Site
Mags' puzzles are all word search games, and are based on episodes of popular television shows such as Xena, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Star Trek. Play these interactive word games online.
Merriam-Webster's Word Puzzles
The people who know a little something about words offer a daily puzzler in one of five Java formats. On any given day, you may find the Slang Slinger, the Definition Demolition or the Match Maker. Scroll down the page for archived puzzles.
Playroom
A troll welcomes players to the Playroom where he has assembled a generous collection of word-search puzzles. Topics include burgers, junk food, pizza and sci-fi. Other diversions include crossword puzzles and a coloring book.
Scrabble Home Page, The Official Worldwide
The venerable word game goes online in four languages (English, Spanish, German and French), and offers 10 interactive puzzles to help you improve your game, links to two game servers for playing online and the complete rules of the game.
Spider-Man Word Search
You don't have to print out this word search; you can play it online. A blue circle highlights the letters as you find them -- all the search words are characters from the comic -- and if you get stuck, you can click the Find Words button for help.
Stinky Pinky
Stinky pinky is a rhyming game in which one player supplies a definition and another player then supplies a rhyming phrase to describe the definition. Play stinky pinky online or link to other stinky responses.
Syndicate.com
Now you can learn vocabulary and win prizes too. Along with monthly contest competitions, find grade-specific puzzles, comic strips, word games and many other ways to sharpen vocabulary, reading and spelling skills.
Thunk.com
Enjoy games like word scrambles, find trivia and jokes and go behind the scenes on word scrambles by finding out how secret codes are used. Try the scrambles more than once--just remember what you thunk while doing them.
Tongue Twister Database
Few kids can resist the challenge of a good tongue twister, and once they learn one will challenge everyone they know to say it fast 10 times. Here's a font of twisters that will give kids' tongues a real workout.
Web Word Find Puzzles
Test your detective skills by trying to find the words hidden in one of the many word search puzzles posted at this site. Choose a puzzle, print it out and try to find 20 hidden words. Don't check the solutions unless you're totally stumped.
Word Scramble
Each week's elementary-level word scrambles -- there are six -- follow a theme, and kids are invited to submit their answers to the school in Massachusetts that sponsors the site.