Word games
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Scope of this subject
Here are entered works on games in which players compete in forming, thinking of, or guessing words according to a set of rules. Works on the act or instance of playing upon words or speech sounds, especially to achieve a humorous or rhetorical effect, are entered under [Plays on words.]
Scope note supplied by the Library of Congress authority record.
Names and connections
Word puzzles
- Broader: Games
- Broader: Literary recreations
- Narrower: Dictionary Game
- Narrower: Lipograms
- Narrower: Palindromes
- Narrower: Quiddler (Game)
- Narrower: Scrabble (Game)
- Narrower: Video word games
Up to 40 narrower headings are shown. Full Library of Congress authority record
Local answer status
No owner-reviewed answer has been published for this exact subject page. This is a gap in this collection; it does not establish that the answer is unavailable elsewhere.
Numeric address and provenance
Morton address: 290556959936087620 · morton4x16-v1
Coordinates: (0, 20, 19719, 4096). The address interleaves categorical identifier bits. Nearby addresses are not guaranteed to describe semantically similar subjects.
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