word puzzles

Word Game – Word Vine

I found a game today, called Word Vine. It is deceptively simple looking and the first few stages are quite easy. After a little while. though, the game becomes harder than you imagine it could be.

Word Vine is a game that involved matching words with a common root word. For example ‘nut’ could be the [...]

These days, when we are all typing away online so often, it is not unusual to make the odd typo. What does become annoying, though, are the words that are consistently misspelt.
These are some of the words that people commonly get wrong.
Accommodate
Allege
Calendar
Controversy
Definitely
Embarrass
Harassment
Independant
Liaise
Occasion
Questionnaire
Which words do you have most trouble with?
Oh, by the way, which word is misspelt in [...]

Free Puzzles

We have added some new puzzles to our free puzzle section. That should keep you busy for a little while. We have crosswords and codewords of all sorts there, including some for the kids.
My favourite puzzle at the moment is our wordfind with a summer theme – Down At The Beach Wordfind. As you can [...]

Jugglets – word puzzles

Jugglets are a form of word puzzle. You must rearrange the letters in each word to find the solution. Once each word is solved, take the first letter of each of those words and rearrange them to find the answer to a clue.
The puzzles can be simple or quite complex. It you love anagrams you [...]

A Rhyming Word Puzzle

I found this fun but challenging puzzle over at Hub Pages “A Rhyming Word Puzzle”. It looks simple but it certainly makes you think. I thought you might enjoy pitting your wits against the puzzle. One hint – the puzzle is from the US so it uses some US colloquialisms but they are well known [...]

Do you Kaidoku?

Have you heard of Kaidoku?
During the week I came across a blog called Kaidoku which has some great puzzles on it. This is an exercpt from the blog:
“What is Kaidoku?
Kaidoku is a sort of puzzle hybrid, a cross between a crossword and sudoku. Each letter in the alphabet is represented by a number in the [...]

Words inside Words

Things aren’t always as they seem…….
What words can you read below?

What did you see? If you look carefully you will see that each word is actually two words.
You and Me? Optical and Illusion? Teach and Learn? Good and Evil?
If you didn’t see them both go back and look again. Isn’t it amazing what we see [...]

Can you read this?

We received an email during the week with some really interesting information in it. OK, we admit it. It was fun as well. This week we are going to give you some puzzles to test you. See if you can work them out.
Have fun with it. Here is your first one. Can you read it?

Olny [...]

What is similar in these words?

I received an email this week and it posed me a puzzle. See if you can figure out what is common between these words.
1. Banana
2. Dresser
3. Grammar
4. Potato
5. Revive
6. Uneven
7. Assess
Keep looking. If you think you know leave the answer in a comment. I will [...]

The Letter Game

At last it is Friday. Are you feeling tired? It has been a long week.
This puzzle might help to give you a lift. It is an online puzzle from English Online and it is a fun way to end your week. In this puzzle you have to see how many words you can make out of [...]