LANGUAGE GAME

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GAMES Scrabble

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Spealling Bee

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Word Sudoku (Wordoku)

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Word Chains

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Word Domino

MEANING A word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a gameboard marked with a 1515 grid. The words are formed across and down in crossword fashion and must appear in a standard dictionary. A spelling bee is a competition where contestants, children grades 1st through 8th, are asked to spell words. A puzzle in which a grid consisting of several regions is to be filled with numbers so that every row, column, and region contains only Alphabetical variations have emerged, sometimes called Wordoku; there is no functional difference in the puzzle unless the letters spell something. A word chain game gets players thinking about letters, spelling and vocabulary. The first player chooses a random word, such as, "carrots." The second player must repeat the word and add a new word that starts with the last letter in the previous word, such as "sandwich." The third player repeats the previous two words and adds another. The game keep going until the word chain becomes too long to remember. Dominoes (or dominos) generally refers to the collective gaming pieces making up a domino set (sometimes called a deck or pack) or to the subcategory of tile games played with domino pieces. In the area of mathematical tilings and polyominoes, the word

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Bingo

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Word Puzzle

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Cross Word

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Musical Chair

domino often refers to anyrectangle formed from joining two congruent squares edge to edge. A game of chance for two or more players, who mark off numbers on a grid as they are called out by another person (thecaller); the game is won by the first person to call out "bingo!" or "house!" on crossing off all numbers on the grid or in one line of the grid. Word games and puzzles are spoken or board games often designed to test ability with language or to explore its properties. Word games are generally engaged as a source of entertainment, but have been found to serve an educational purpose as well. A crossword is a word puzzle that normally takes the form of a square or a rectangular grid of white and shaded squares. The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues which lead to the answers. In languages that are written left-to-right, the answer words and phrases are placed in the grid from left to right and from top to bottom. The shaded squares are used to separate the words or phrases. Musical chairs is a game played by a group of people (usually children), often in an informal setting purely for entertainment such as a birthdayparty. The game starts with any number of players and a number of chairs one fewer than the number of players; the chairs are arranged in a circle (or other closed figure if space is constrained; a double line is sometimes used) facing outward, with the people standing in a circle just outside of that. A non-playing individual plays

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recorded music or a musical instrument. While the music is playing, the players in the circle walk in unison around the chairs. When the music player suddenly stops the music, everyone must race to sit down in one of the chairs. The player who is left without a chair is eliminated from the game, and one chair is also removed to ensure that there will always be one fewer chair than there are players. The music resumes and the cycle repeats until there is only one player left in the game, who is the winner. When down to the last two players the chair may be moved as long as the music has stopped before the chair has been touched. Treasure Hunt A game in which the players attempt to find hidden articles by means of a series of clues. Bulls Eye The bullseye is the centre of a target (worth 10 points in archery or 50 points in darts), and the name given to any shot that hits the bullseye. Spin & Spell Play with a partner. Decide who will be the first Spinner and who will be the first Reader. Stack the spelling cards upside down near the gameboard. The Reader picks up a spelling card and reads the word aloud without showing it. The Spinner spins the pointer* and performs the action. The Reader checks the answer. Tongue A tongue-twister is a phrase that is designed to be Twister difficult to articulate properly, and can be used as a type of spoken (or sung) word game. Some tongue-twisters produce results which are humorous (or humorously vulgar) when they are mispronounced, while others simply rely on the confusion and mistakes of the speaker for their amusement value.

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Hangman

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Speed Spelling

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Word Grid

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Guess It Right

A classic hangman game requires a pencil, a piece of paper and two players. The first player makes a dash on the paper to represent each letter in the chosen word. The second player guesses letters until the dashes contain enough letters that the chosen word can be guessed. If the second player guesses the wrong letter, part of the hangman is drawn. The amount of wrong answers a player can give in a hangman game is easy to alter. A hard game gives six chances, one each for the head, body, arms and legs. An easy game gives 12 chances, one each for the head, body, arms, hands, legs, feet and eyes. Test spelling skills against the most commonly misspelled words. Quickly decide whether each of 20 words is spelled correctly or incorrectly, as speed and accuracy count. A children's game that can be played with several players or alone. Hopscotch is a popular playground game in which players toss a small object into numbered spaces of a pattern of rectangles outlined on the ground and then hop or jump through the spaces to retrieve the object. A game in which participants compete to identify some obscurely indicated thing