Different Types Of Word Puzzles
Word puzzles are a type of puzzle where the puzzles are made from information of words or sentences in some cases. There are different types of puzzles in numbers, ciphers, pictures, words, etc., using the same or other types of information as a clue to solve the type of puzzle.
1. Word Search Puzzles
Word Search is the most used among the types of word puzzles. Easy to make and can be challenged to all age groups by choosing the right words to do the puzzle for each age group.
The word search puzzle is a puzzle with words hidden in a grid of random letters. The list of letters is given for you to find those words in the grid.
- These puzzles improve problem-solving skills just as any other puzzle is useful.
- Also, in the quest to find the word, your spellings are improved.
- Printable puzzles reduce screen time.
- On regular solving, you become quick to find out what you want in general.
2. Spellings
Any word puzzle will inevitably make you learn spellings. However, the below picture-word puzzle is especially helpful for kids to learn spellings by completing the picture with the spelling below. There are also different types of puzzles to learn spellings, such as word searches, crossword puzzles, etc.
3. Anagrams
In Anagram puzzles, you use the same letters of the given word to make a different word, and that word also possesses meaning. This applies the same to sentences also. You’ll have to rearrange the letters to form a new sentence from a given sentence, and that sentence possesses meaning. Here is a simple example with 4 letter words rearranged as Dear => Read, Tone => Note, and so on.
4. Matching Puzzles
Matching puzzles are word puzzles where you’ll have to match the word to its corresponding picture, like in the example below or as per the question in the puzzle. This is an easy matching puzzle example for toddlers. As you can see, the word ‘fox’ is matched to the image of a fox.
5. Ciphers
Ciphers are coded messages where the actual words or sentences are encrypted with symbols, different letters or numbers, etc. Here’s an example where the alphabets are coded with symbols. 
6. Word Scramble Or Jumbled Words Puzzles
These word scramble or jumbled word puzzles are similar to anagrams, but here you’ll be given a rearranged word letters, and you have to find the actual word with the clue given. Below is an easy word scramble puzzle for kids with images as clues and a jumbled word. Find out the actual word.
7. Crossword Puzzles
A crossword puzzle is a square or rectangular grid with white boxes filled in with letters forming a word based on the given clues. This simple crossword example will give you an idea of how crossword puzzles work. There are numbers indicated of where the word should start. For example, to identify the word that fits 2 across look at the image clue of 2, it’s a ‘fan’. Now when you look at clue 1, it could be a bus or a van. But, the word ‘van’ fits, as the middle letter ‘a’ is already filled.
8. Rebus Puzzles
Rebus puzzle is more of a picture puzzle. The picture clues lead to a word or sentence. For example, the picture of cap + ‘E’ => cape.
9. Semantics
Semantics are words with very close meanings but are different in context.
