The Unjumbler:
Word jumble puzzle solver and anagram finder.
http://www.unjumbler.com/
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.
http://www.tashian.com/multibabel/
Mockok.com:
A large collection of palindromes, focusing on palindromic single
sentences (spelling the same forwards and backwards). Submissions
welcome.
http://www.mockok.com/
Janet's Wordplay Site:
Articles, puzzles, and quizzes. Dozens of features about having fun
with words.
http://www.jy-muggeridge.freeserve.co.uk/
NOVA: Decoding Nazi Secrets:
Crack the ciphers, send a coded message, and find out what goes on
in the minds of code-breakers.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/decoding/
eLibs.com:
Creating interactive stories from user inputs. Possibility to add a
dialect; also different categories and polls.
http://www.elibs.com/
Smurf the Web:
The WebSmurfer will translate any web page into Smurf jargon.
http://websmurfer.devnull.net/
Kid Crosswords and Other Puzzles:
Choose from several puzzles created just for kids. New puzzles each
month.
http://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.
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~tpayne/lingolym/
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".
http://www.fortogden.com/nauticalterms.html
Phobias:
Article that lists some of the more amusing phobias, like
arachibutyrophobia -- the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof
of the mouth.
http://www.geocities.com/nallen20/FunnyPhobias.txt
Piece of Pi MadLibs:
Featuring a collection of madlib stories and poetry.
http://madlibs.freeservers.com/
Tween Talk Madlibs:
Have fun using your imagination and creating your own stories with
madlibs.
http://www.tweentalk.net/madlibs.html
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".
http://www.palindromes.org/
