The Pixie Pit's Scrabble Board offers (in our opinions) the best site for on-line scrabble playing.  Sign up you and a friend for an e-mail game.

Internet Scrabble Club a serious site for serious Scrabble players.

Whacky Web Tales from the Houghton Mifflin website offers safe and fun Mad Libs for grades 3 and up

Non-Java Hangman Bill's site allows you to choose from lots of different dictionaries and set your own difficulty level.  Forgive Bill's advertisements.

Triumph Hangman Harder words, basic graphics, but play is quick!  

On-Line Crosswords This great site lets you complete the puzzle right on line.  

Crossword Adventures with Ox-Brain Provides puzzles to solve on-line.  Each puzzle centers around a story on-line that you can read as you solve.

Java Word Search This great site lets you complete the puzzle right on line.

Anagramania's Word Searches This is another great site lets you complete the puzzle right on line.  This one actually lets you circle the words...not just highlight them!

Web Word Find Puzzles These are printable word find puzzles for kids, free from Houghton Mifflin!  They also provide the solutions and a two puzzles for each theme so kids can't copy from each other.

I-Sketch A slow load and you have to sign in, but it's worth it.  This great game puts you in a chat room with others and you earn points for guessing what the designated "artist" is drawing.  It's Pictionary with people from around the world.  Lots of fun!

Boggler Make real words in three minutes by using the grid of letters.  Letters must be touching each other and may not be used more than once in the same word.

Fake Out! Balderdash on-line Make up definitions for real words, then check back to see all the fake definitions.  Play previously made games or add to the next week's game.

Anagramania Anagrams Choose a category and try to unscramble all the words that fit that category.

Everyday Vocabulary Anagrams These anagrams are great practice if you like the newspaper's jumbles.  The answer is provided right there if you want to check yourself.  Don't cheat though!

SuperKids Word Scrambler Slow load but a good resource.  Allows kids to easily create and print their own 10-word anagram puzzles for their friends.

Etymologic A ten-question word quiz that asks for meanings and histories of words and phrases.  How well can you score?

WordScram at Bill's Games This is a word puzzle game! Each player takes turns trying to make words out of a collection of randomly-picked letters.

Rejoinder Help tell a group-story by adding your sentence to the collection.  WritingFix's user Tyler is trying to get his site more active.  Go help him out by playing.   

Anyone know other sites on-line where you can add to an on-going story one sentence at a time?

Cryptogram Corner A huge collection of scrambled word codes to "crack," complete with the ability to solve on-line (and a clue giver if you just can't get started).

Literary Cryptograms This site provides cryptogram passages all from literary works, with the ability to solve right on-line.