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The vocabulary games below give you some of the best language learning fun on the internet - and provide a great way of building vocabulary ... together with your well-organized vocabulary book.

Sites for Beginners (B), Intermediate (I), Advanced (A)

Free English Games (BI)
Funbrain (BI) - check your spelling here.
SpellaRoo (BI) - or here.
Wordmania - (BI)
Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun - (BI)
Wacky World of Words (IA) - many excellent good-fun exercises.
MOVIEMAKER (IA) - great ... make movies and e-mail them to friends.
COOLPICMAIL (IA) - for creative fun learning with e-mails. It's fine!
Word Plays (IA) - great intractive games including classic Boggler.
The Letterbox Game (IA) - challenging, funny, strange, addictive.
Word Games (IA)-some excellent games here, highly recommended.
Snakes and Ladders (IA) - phrasal verb development fun.
iSketch (IA) - online combination of Pictionary and chat.
University Word Web (IA)
Wordles (IA) - have fun with anagrams. Enter your name -and click.
Anagram Genius (IA) - enter celebrity names here - and click
The Collins Cobuild Definitions Game (IA) - often difficult - but fun.
Etymologic (A+) - always very very difficult. Fun?! mmm

There are also lots more ways for more advanced learners to have fun while building vocabulary. For example, they can ...

listen to songs-or
watch movies-or
read jokes, quotes and trivia from surfers all around the world.

BTW - some fun with words is only for really advanced learners!

Finally, we are always looking to add to this list,so please contact us if you'd like to recommend any favourite games of your own. That way you can help us to help others.

Pictures that paint a thousand words can be seen at THE ART OF SURFING

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