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NOVA: Decoding Nazi Secrets - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/decoding/
Crack the ciphers, send a coded message, and find out what goes on in the minds of code-breakers. |
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AskOxford: Word Games - http://www.askoxford.com/wordgames/?view=uk
Cryptic and easy crosswords, fiendish word games, the history of crosswords, and scrabble and behind the scenes at Countdown. |
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Lost in Translation - http://www.tashian.com/multibabel/
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. |
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Kid Crosswords and Other Puzzles - http://www.kidcrosswords.com/
Choose from several puzzles created just for kids. New puzzles each month. |
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Crossword Puzzles for ESL Students - http://iteslj.org/cw/
A selection of online crossword puzzles sorted by difficulty. |
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eLibs.com - http://www.elibs.com/
Creating interactive stories from user inputs. Possibility to add a dialect; also different categories and polls. |
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The Nautical Origins for Some Common Expressions - http://www.fortogden.com/nauticalterms.html
Explaining the seafaring origins of some common words, figures of speech, and everyday expressions, like "toe the line" and "scuttlebutt". |
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Piece of Pi MadLibs - http://madlibs.freeservers.com/
Featuring a collection of madlib stories and poetry. |
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Phobias - http://www.geocities.com/nallen20/FunnyPhobias.txt
Article that lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia -- the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth. |
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Wireless Power Word Game - http://www.wirelesspower.com/
Challenging word jumbles posted every week. |
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Mockok.com - http://www.mockok.com/
A large collection of palindromes, focusing on palindromic single sentences (spelling the same forwards and backwards). Submissions welcome. |
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Wordies on the Web - http://www.cyg.net/~ddoctor/
Translate these arrangements of letters, numbers and/or symbols into a familiar phrase, saying, or cliché. |
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Jim Kalb's Palindrome Connection - http://palindromes.hobby-site.org/
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". |
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