Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION; 1. Riddles; 2. Enigmas; 3. Charades; 4. Acrostics; 5. Word Squares; 6. Crosswords; 7. Scrabble; 8. Anagrams; 9. The Rebus; 10. Chronograms; 11. Palindromes; 12. Pangrams; 13. Lipograms and Univocalics; 14. Letter Games; 15. Alphabet Games; 16. Playing with Poetry; 17. Concrete Poetry; 18. Tongue-Twisters; 19. Spoonerisms; 20. Slips of the Tongue; 21. Lapsus Linguae; 22. The Games of Lewis Carroll; 23. Cumulative Games; 24. Twenty Questions and other Guessing Games; 25. Homonyms; 26. Puns; 27. Miscellany; The Longest Word; Oulipo; Pronunciation; Self-Referential Words and Sentences; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INDEX

About the Author

Tony Augarde worked at Oxford University Press for many years and has compiled and edited a number of Oxford reference books including The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations. He is also the author of Oxford Word Challenge and The Oxford A-Z of Word Games (1994), a practical 'How To' companion to The Oxford Guide to Word Games. He has broadcast word quizzes on various radio programmes and writes a regular wordplay column for the Oxford Times.