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Dial S for Sloppy
A game for 2 or more players

Change words into telephone numbers.

To play, one player thinks of a word and translates it into numbers on the phone buttons.

For example, the word GAME would be 4263, and those are the number they write down.

Everyone else playing then has to try to figure out what the word is from those numbers. If you saw 53662 would you know it was LEONA? You might have thought it was JENNA.

License Plate Lingo
A game for 1 or more players

Make up wacky phrases from license plate letters.

Write down or remember the letters in license plates you see.

Now, create a phrase using only words that start with each letter.

So, if a license plate contained the letters KHW, you could come up with "kind hearted wallabies" or "keep hanging wallpaper."

The words should make sense when you put them together but be as creative and wacky as you like. That's the fun of it.

See who can come up with the funniest and most inventive phrases.

Martha's a Star
A game for 1 or more players

Master the "ar" to be a marvelous star, like Martha Reader.

In 60 seconds, come up with as many words as you can that contain "ar," like in our story, Shooting Stars.

Keep track of them by making a list. Race against the clock or each other.

Okay, get ready to start! Hey, there's your first word. Did you catch it? "Start!"

Ram-Un-scram
A game for 1 or more players

Help the ram eat all the words that have "ram" in them to unscramble a phrase you might know from "Arthur."

Collect or put a line through any words that contain "ram" in order to leave the pepper patch.

Here is the phrase:

Having scramble fun isn't drama hard cameraman when caramel you've cramming got a rampart library cramp card.

Answer:

Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card.

Straighties and Curvies
A game for one or more players

Group letters by how they're written.

Which letters can be written using only straight lines? Which letters have all curvy lines? Which have both? Try both upper-case and lower-case letters.

Walk the Plank
A game for 2 or more players

Avoid the Pirate's Letter.

To play, pick an initial letter to be the Pirate's Letter and then take turns to ask each other questions.

Your answers to the questions have to make sense, but must not use any words that start with the Pirate's Letter!

Whoever uses a word that begins with the Pirate's Letter first loses and must walk the plank. This is just a pretend plank, of course. Feel free to make splashing noises.

If the Pirate's Letter was B, you might ask someone to name three sports, in the hope that they say "baseball" or "basketball." But if you use a word beginning with B when you're asking the question, you're out.

Words From a Word
A game for 1 or more players

The boy claims that you can find words within words. He's telling the truth but he needs your help to prove it.

You can play alone, against another person, or in teams. Pick one person to be the score-keeper.

Have the score-keeper write down a long word, for example, "follow." Each team has 1 minute to think of as many words as they can using only the letters in that word. To start you off, here are two: "fool" and "wolf." They both are made from the letters in the word "follow."

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