word game

noun

1. any game or contest involving skill in using, forming, guessing, or changing words or expressions, such as anagrams or Scrabble.

word game

noun

1. any game involving the formation, discovery, or alteration of a word or words

Example Sentences

Playing that quick-response word game, if I said “foods that go together,” your answer would probably be peanut butter and jelly or milk and cookies, not horseradish and seafood.

From Washington Post

Kocienda says he also wanted the game to fun, and personally found it frustrating that other word games wouldn’t allow proper names.

From TechCrunch

So just how much time have we spent engaged with the Scrabble-like word game?

From The Daily Beast

But they enjoyed the missing word game the most, because it was new.

From Project Gutenberg

I cannot desist, however, from this word-game until I have set down a few.

From Project Gutenberg