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The Oxford guide to word games
- Title
- The Oxford guide to word games / Tony Augarde.
- Author
- Augarde, Tony.
- Publication
- Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1984.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Use in library | GV1507.W8 A84 1984 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 240 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- Chronicles the various word games, tells how they began, how they are played, and describes the many variations that have proliferated over the years.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Reference works.
- History.
- Puzzles and games.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [221]-[222]
- Contents
- Riddles -- Enigmas -- Charades -- Acrostics -- Word squares -- Crosswords -- Scrabble -- Anagrams -- Rebus -- Chronograms -- Palindromes -- Pangrams -- Lipograms and univocalics -- Letter games -- Alphabet games -- Playing with poetry -- Concrete poetry -- Tongue twisters and cumulative games -- Spoonerisms -- Lapsus Linguae -- Games of Lewis Carroll -- Consequences -- Twenty Questions -- Hangman -- Puns -- Postscript: longest word.
- ISBN
- 0192141449
- 9780192141446
- LCCN
- 83025140
- OCLC
- ocm10298905
- 10298905
- SCSB-14340311
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library