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Word and Letter Games

Adonis

An Edwardian word game half-way between Scrabble and dominoes

Canton

An intriguing word game from 1920s Canton

Cologne letter game

A word-building game from 19th century Cologne

Eloquence

A New Year's Eve word game from 19th century France

Goose

A phrase-building game from the Falkland Islands: Pluck the Goose!

Green Valley

A 1930s card game from Green Valley, New Zealand, using play to help teach reading

Hodag

A unique word-forming game from the Jazz-Age

I Win You Lose

A word game where winning is literally spelled out

Iddy Umpty

Learn Morse Code while building words

Goodnight

A pack of cards that spells Goodnight

Letter Casino

Word-building according to the rules of Casino

My Word

The better letter game

Nyctograms

Learn Lewis Carroll's night-writing system playing cards

Della Porta

A three word game played using the della Porta cipher

Royal Archer

A game of words, in the Courts of Love

Spelka

A new edition of the oldest word game

Stenograms

A game inspired by the stenograph. Full version (327 cards!!)

Steno 150

A game inspired by the stenograph. 150-card introductory version

Syllabary

An updated and improved version of a 1930s English word-forming game using syllables

Wordmaker

A game from the 1920s, for teaching spelling from letter and consonant cards.

Wordcraft

An 1890s word game that shows how words are formed by adding prefixes and suffixes.

ASL Spelka

An exciting word game using images of the ASL gestures

Auslan Spelka

An exciting word game using images of the Auslan sign language gestures

Maritime Spelka

Learn to recognise maritime flags by playing Spelka, the oldest word game.

Semaphore Deck

Learn to recognise semaphore by playing Spelka, the oldest word game.

Shavian Spelka

Learn to recognise the sounds of Shavian, the phonetic alphabet of George Bernard Shaw

Phonetica

A word-forming game based on sounds and their representation

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