📚 Word Games

Letters and scores: the crossword’s clues through to the lettered board, and the vocabulary they reward.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject word games in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Lewis Carroll Picture Book	Stuart Dodgson Collingwood	1899	18
	Puzzlemania	Inc. Highlights for Children	2002	13
	C D C?	William Steig	1984	8
	My First Puzzles	Helene Hovanec	2005	8
	Tomfoolery	Alvin Schwartz	1973	7
	Mind-Boggling Word Puzzles	Martin Gardner	2001	6
	Madam and Nun And 1001	Brian P. Cleary	2012	6
	Arm in arm	Remy Charlip	1969	5
	The game of words	Willard R. Espy	1971	5
	Tempo Junior Scrambled Word Find Anthologies	Paul Doherty	1975	5
	Mammoth Book of Word Games	Richard B. Manchester	1976	5
	The Oxford guide to word games	Tony Augarde	1984	5
	Reader's Digest Pocket Guide	Reader's Digest Association	2007	5
	Mind stretchers	Reader's Digest Association	2010	5
	Word Search Large Print	Flame Tree Studio	2017	5
	Jumble Word Game 02 (Jumble Word Game)	Henri Lee	1968	4
	Your move	David L. Silverman	1971	4
	Twister of Twists	Alvin Schwartz	1972	4
	Spring	Steven Schnur	1999	4
	Wumbers	Amy Krouse Rosenthal	2012	4
	Large Print Wordsearch	Arcturus Publishing	2016	4
	300 best word puzzles	Henry Ernest Dudeney	1968	3
	Jumble Word Game	Henri Arnold	1973	3
	TEMPOCROSTICS	Charles Preston	1975	3
	The biggest tongue twister book in the world	Gyles Brandreth	1978	3
	The joy of lex	Gyles Brandreth	1980	3
	Book of Puzzlements	Herbert R. Kohl	1981	3
	The Puzzle book.	World Book, Inc	1982	3
	Word fun	Beverly Dietz	1984	3
	The literate puzzler	Rita Norr	1994	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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