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- eLibs.com - Creating interactive stories from user inputs. Possibility to add a dialect; also different categories and polls.
www.elibs.com
- Janet's Wordplay Site - Articles, puzzles, and quizzes. Dozens of features about having fun with words.
www.jy-muggeridge.freeserve.co.uk
- Jim Kalb's Palindrome Connection - 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".
www.palindromes.org
- Kid Crosswords and Other Puzzles - Choose from several puzzles created just for kids. New puzzles each month.
www.kidcrosswords.com
- Linguistic Olympics - Competition in which students solve puzzles based on real languages they have never learned. Site includes more than two dozen sample puzzles.
darkwing.uoregon.edu/~tpayne/lingolym
- Lost in Translation - 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.
www.tashian.com/multibabel
- Mockok.com - A large collection of palindromes, focusing on palindromic single sentences (spelling the same forwards and backwards). Submissions welcome.
www.mockok.com
- NOVA: Decoding Nazi Secrets - Crack the ciphers, send a coded message, and find out what goes on in the minds of code-breakers.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/decoding
- Phobias - Article that lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia -- the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
www.geocities.com/nallen20/FunnyPhobias.txt
- Piece of Pi MadLibs - Featuring a collection of madlib stories and poetry.
madlibs.freeservers.com
- Smurf the Web - The WebSmurfer will translate any web page into Smurf jargon.
websmurfer.devnull.net
- StoryMe.com - Online fun generator allows users to dynamically create wild excuses, wacky madlibs, silly stories and tall tales, then email their creations to family and friends.
storyme.com
- The Nautical Origins for Some Common Expressions - Explaining the seafaring origins of some common words, figures of speech, and everyday expressions, like "toe the line" and "scuttlebutt".
www.fortogden.com/nauticalterms.html
- The Unjumbler - Word jumble puzzle solver and anagram finder.
www.unjumbler.com
- Tween Talk Madlibs - Have fun using your imagination and creating your own stories with madlibs.
www.tweentalk.net/madlibs.html
- Wireless Power Word Game - Challenging word jumbles posted every week.
www.wirelesspower.com
- Wordies on the Web - Translate these arrangements of letters, numbers and/or symbols into a familiar phrase, saying, or cliché.
www.cyg.net/~ddoctor
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