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• Kids and Teens: Games: Paper and Pencil  (9)

AskOxford: Word Games - [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Cryptic and easy crosswords, fiendish word games, the history of crosswords, and scrabble and behind the scenes at Countdown.

Crossword Puzzles for ESL Students - [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - A selection of online crossword puzzles sorted by difficulty.

eLibs.com - [ Kids/Teens ] - Creating interactive stories from user inputs. Possibility to add a dialect; also different categories and polls.

Jim Kalb's Palindrome Connection - [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - A collection of links to web pages about palindromes -- phrases that spell the same forwards as backwards, like "Able was I ere I saw Elba".

Kid Crosswords and Other Puzzles - [ Kids ] - Choose from several puzzles created just for kids. New puzzles each month.

Lost in Translation - [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Enter a sentence to have it translated from English to five different languages and back. The result is often funny; nothing like the original sentence.

Mockok.com - [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - A large collection of palindromes, focusing on palindromic single sentences (spelling the same forwards and backwards). Submissions welcome.

The Nautical Origins for Some Common Expressions - [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Explaining the seafaring origins of some common words, figures of speech, and everyday expressions, like "toe the line" and "scuttlebutt".

NOVA: Decoding Nazi Secrets - [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Crack the ciphers, send a coded message, and find out what goes on in the minds of code-breakers.

Phobias - [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Article that lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia -- the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.

Piece of Pi MadLibs - [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Featuring a collection of madlib stories and poetry.

Wireless Power Word Game - [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Challenging word jumbles posted every week.

Wordies on the Web - [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Translate these arrangements of letters, numbers and/or symbols into a familiar phrase, saying, or cliché.