Anagrams are word games where letters are rearranged to form other words. They can be played with pencil and paper, board games, or online. Anagrams can be played alone or in competition, with scores based on length or quantity of words. They also appear in newspapers and puzzle books.
An anagram is a type of word game in which letters are taken from a word or group of words and rearranged into other words. Ideally, the second word or words will have some relationship to the first, although in most anagram games this isn’t actually necessary. There are many different types of anagram games, including those available to play online, such as board games or pencil-and-paper games.
The simplest anagram games to play in terms of materials required are those that use nothing but pencil and paper. Players are given an initial word or phrase and are challenged to use all the letters to make related words. A variation of this game requires the player to create as many words as possible from the initial term. These games can be played alone or in competition with others. In some cases the score is calculated based on the length of the words and the quantity, or the players can race against the clock.
The board game industry has created many different anagram games that use some type of dice, tile, or other game device. The Boggle® game is one example. Boggle® uses letter dice to provide players with the source of their words, then compete to see who can spell the most words before time runs out. There have been a number of other commercially available board anagram games, including an anagrammatic version of Scarbble® called Clabber®, as well as Bananagrams®, an anagram game that comes in a banana-shaped case.
Online versions of these and other anagram games appear on many different websites on the Internet. Some games are quite simple and limited while others use graphics and animation to grab the user’s attention. Televised anagram games pit players against each other, the clock, or both as they work to create the most anagrams from random groups of letters or words. There have been a number of televised game shows that use an anagram format.
Newspapers and puzzle books challenge players to create anagrams from various words and phrases, sometimes encouraging readers to submit their best efforts. Some of these are pretty straightforward, but others require players to solve a series of challenges to get the letters that make up an anagram of the puzzle answer. Printed materials often offer anagram challenges at various levels so that players of all skill levels can play.
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