Google Directory - Recreation > Humor

Directory Help
Search only in WordplaySearch the Web

Wordplay

Categories

Ambigrams (16)
Anagrams (38)
Brain Teasers (225)
Crosswords (118)
Cryptograms (21)
Humorous Poetry (45)
Humorous Quotations (33)
Insults (20)

Neologisms (11)
Online Games (68)
Oxymora (8)
Palindromes (16)
Personalities and Commentaries (14)
Play Languages (44)
Puns (59)

Quotations (2)
Riddles (30)
Self-Referential Sentences (2)
Video Games (108)
Web Filters (15)
Word Search (51)
Wordies (14)

Web Pages

View in Google PageRank order Viewing in alphabetical order

"Oh my God! There's an axe in my head." - http://yamara.com/junk/xl970512.html
How to say this phrase in various languages.

A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia - http://jeff560.tripod.com/words.html
Includes book of word records, palindromic words, pangrams, most beautiful and ugly words, Scrabble words, and Bible word trivia.

Answers to Rhetorical Questions - http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/gradgrind.html
Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects.

Before and After - http://www.bridge.net/~labush/lalmwk20.htm
The object is to fill in the blanks. Example: "____ day ____" becomes "Sun day light", that is, "Sunday" and "Daylight".

Bovilexics.com - http://www.bovilexics.com/
Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.

Corsinet.com - http://corsinet.com/
Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes.

Dave's Fun Words - http://uark.edu/~dbruce/list.html
Categorized list of words which are fun to say.

Dislexicon Word Generator - http://www.robobunny.com/cgi-bin/dislexicon/dlc
Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them.

Divinest-Sense.com: Tom Swifties - http://www.without-feathers.com/bits/fun-and-games/reads/tom-swifties.php
Definition of this style of play on words, a collection of original and previously-known examples, and links to other collections.

Family Travel Games - http://www.familytravelgames.com
A book of family-oriented wordplay to occupy time during road trips, from easy to challenging. No additional implements needed.

Faulkner or Machine Translation? - http://reverent.org/sounds_like_faulkner.html
A quiz to determine whether literary passages are the Faulkner originals or ones machine-translated from German into English.

Fun With Words - http://rinkworks.com/words
Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.

Fun-with-words.com - http://www.fun-with-words.com/
Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay.

Funny Names Site - http://users.breathe.com/ionabigyot/
Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats.

Funnyname.com - http://www.funnyname.com/
A collection of amusing, interesting, strange, and occasionally rude names from the phone book.

Gadzillion Things to Think About - http://www.gadzillionthings.net/
10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions.

http://www.opundo.com - http://www.opundo.com
Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour.

Keepers of Lists - http://keepersoflists.org
A large archive of amusing lists. Lists can be created, added to and voted on by the public.

LazrChet's Rhetorical Questions - http://users.owt.com/lazrchet/humor/rhetoric.htm
Questions designed to open one's mind, even if no answer is expected.

Loquacious Lipograms - http://phrontistery.info/lipogram.html
Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.

Lost in Translation - http://www.tashian.com/multibabel/
See what happens when an English phrase is translated by computer back and forth between 5 different languages. Confusion results.

National Public Radio - http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puzzle/
New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge.

Piece of Pi MadLibs - http://madlibs.freeservers.com/
Site featuring a collection of madlibs.

Scorpio Tales - http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/
Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.

Stink Pink - http://highhopes.com/rhymetime.html
Questions have answers with two rhyming words.

Text Messages - http://www.txt2nite.com/smiley.html
A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages.

The Collective Noun Page - http://www.ojohaven.com/collectives/
Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'.

The Mother of All Excuses Place - http://madtbone.tripod.com/
Over 900 excuses to not go to work or school, police and accidents, breaking dates, doctor, missing church, diet, and taxes.

The Tate Family Members - http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert.fs/tate.htm
Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name.

The Word Spy - http://www.wordspy.com/
Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.

Unscramble.net - http://www.unscramble.net
Unscramble, find, rhyme or define various words online.

Untruisms and One-Trick Words - http://richard.tangle-wood.co.uk/
Phrases that are only used when they are untrue, and words that can only be used within a cliche'.

Vocab Vitamins - http://www.vocabvitamins.com/
A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it.

Vocal Names Riddles - http://www.brainteaser-world.com/puzzles/vocal-words/vocal-words-archives.htm
Guess a celebrity's name which is actually made of various words.

Word Games Software - http://d.ch.free.fr/logic2uk.html
Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.

Word Masher - http://www.aurete.com/wordmasher
Scrambles your text but leaves the first and last letter of each word intact. The result is readable if you have a good vocabulary.

Word Skit - http://www.wordskit.com/
Linguistic contortions, weird and wonderful words, plus quotations.

Word-Jumble.com - http://www.word-jumble.com
Unscramble mixed-up letters dealing with sports, books, music and miscellaneous. Click on the scrambles to find their answers.

Wordage: The Game of Words - http://www.cmcom.com/wordage/
Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths.

Wordorium - http://www.wordorium.blogspot.com
A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers.

Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.

Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor