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

As well as voting for their favourite bird, nature lovers have also been able to take part this year in a version of the popular web-based word game Wordle - called, of course, Birdle.

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"This is Beijing trying to explore the possibility of using word games to create an off-ramp for both sides, so that they can gradually climb their way down from this escalation spiral," he says.

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Musk loves to play word games when defending his assault on a program that helps keep millions of elderly and disabled people from falling into poverty.

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She also invented card and word games and made dominoes out of scraps of paper, to keep their minds occupied.

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It attracted reaction on social media with one user posting a mock-up of word game Countdown.

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