Tagged “wordplay”
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#c0ffee is the color
A playful list of real English words that are also valid CSS hex colors, from #c0ffee to #decade, each shown as a swatch…
#HEXWORDS
A tool for finding hex colour codes that spell words, like #BADA55 or #C0FFEE, so designers can pick a colour with a nam…
Abecedarian Web Log
The weblog of Craig Conley, whose site collects the personal effects of a self-described mad genius: wordplay, language…
Acronymy
A collaborative word game trying to define every English word as an acronym of itself, showing a word of the day and the…
Ambigr.am
A hall of fame of ambigrams, words and names lettered so they read the same upside down or mirrored, a delight for typog…
Anagram Genius
A playful site built around a powerful anagram-generating engine, showcasing witty computer-crafted anagrams of names, p…
Big Dave's Crossword Blog
A prolific blog dedicated to explaining British cryptic crossword clues line by line, run by an enthusiastic community o…
ChemSpeller
Spells any word you type using symbols from the periodic table of elements, a quick toy for chemistry fans and word love…
Cockney Rhyming Slang
A big dictionary of cockney rhyming slang you can browse from slang to English or English to slang, with entries rated b…
jellyfishreview.wordpress.com
Entertainment
Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild
A short piece of flash fiction by Kathy Fish that invents collective nouns for people, a tapestry of grandmothers, a jub…
Conlextions
A free daily word puzzle where you sort sixteen words into four hidden groups, handmade by Lex Friedman, with an archive…
Dictionary of Online Behavior
A collection of newly coined words for things people do on social networks, like followeratio and clickvalue, each with…
English Homonyms, Homophones and Homographs
A giant list of more than 300 English words that sound or look alike, with Richard Lederer's playful essay on the awful…
Fifteensquared
A crossword-blogging community that publishes daily explanations of British cryptic crossword clues, unpacking the wordp…
Fill Harmonics
A crossword-themed music machine where you construct a beat on a puzzle-style grid, made by artist Parker Higgins and cr…
Freestyle
A daily rhyming word game where you find as many rhymes as you can for the word of the day and see how your list stacks…
Hidden Joey
A daily word game about kangaroo words: words that hide their own synonym, spelled in order, so you spot the joey inside…
homophonesweakly.blogspot.com
Education
Homophones, Weakly
An illustrated blog that pairs words which sound or look alike, such as bare and bear, in witty side-by-side drawings th…
Insult and Passphrase Generator
Generates absurdly Shakespearean insults such as 'you unendurable cone of loose-moraled turtledove', and doubles as a qu…
Karsh Writes
A personal blog whose author also constructs original crossword puzzles, with a growing archive of free puzzles to solve…
Keywords
A daily word connection game where you hunt for the hidden keyword that links a set of clue words, with a fresh puzzle t…
Latinocyrillic Crosswords
An experiment in poly-alphabet crosswords that mix Latin and Cyrillic letters, so look-alike characters become the puzzl…
Learn Cryptic
A free interactive course that teaches how to solve cryptic crossword clues one wordplay device at a time, with daily pr…
MIT Mystery Hunt 2022: The Investigation
A round of fiendish puzzles from the 2022 MIT Mystery Hunt, each themed on a classic children's book, publicly archived…
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