word play

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• - Challenging word jumbles posted every week.
  
• - A selection of online crossword puzzles sorted by difficulty.
  
• - Article that lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia -- the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
  
• - Choose from several puzzles created just for kids. New puzzles each month.
  
• - Translate these arrangements of letters, numbers and/or symbols into a familiar phrase, saying, or cliché.
  
• - A large collection of palindromes, focusing on palindromic single sentences (spelling the same forwards and backwards). Submissions welcome.
  
• - Explaining the seafaring origins of some common words, figures of speech, and everyday expressions, like "toe the line" and "scuttlebutt".
  
• - A collection of links to web pages about palindromes -- phrases that spell the same forwards as backwards, like "Able was I ere I saw Elba".
  
• - Enter a sentence to have it translated from English to five different languages and back. The result is often funny; nothing like the original sentence.
  
• - Featuring a collection of madlib stories and poetry.
  
• - The WebSmurfer will translate any web page into Smurf jargon.
  
• - Crack the ciphers, send a coded message, and find out what goes on in the minds of code-breakers.
  
• - Creating interactive stories from user inputs. Possibility to add a dialect; also different categories and polls.
  
• - Cryptic and easy crosswords, fiendish word games, the history of crosswords, and scrabble and behind the scenes at Countdown.