Word Games to Play Now 15 games

Word games ask you to do one thing: turn letters into words. Sometimes the letters sit in a grid and you drag across them. Sometimes you get a clue and a row of empty boxes. Sometimes a picture shows you the answer and you type it. The skills are the same either way: spotting patterns, remembering spellings, guessing a word from two letters and a hunch.

Start with Word Search: Offline Puzzle if you want to swipe through a grid and find words without a timer breathing on you. Word Cross is for the crossword mood: clues, crossings, one wrong letter ruining your afternoon. Bubble Word Jam throws letters into bubbles and makes you pop them into order before the pile grows.

If you like guessing more than spelling, Draw and Guess Online flips it: someone sketches, you type what you see, and the drawing is usually terrible.