Recommended Linguistic Games

Recommendations by E.K.

Good games that use language puzzles, or language itself as the puzzle.

1. Ad Verbum
by Nick Montfort
(2000)
Average member rating: (81 ratings)

2. Counterfeit Monkey
by Emily Short
(2012)
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

3. Earl Grey, by Rob Dubbin and Adam Parrish (2009)
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

4. PataNoir
by Simon Christiansen
(2011)
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

5. For a Change
by Dan Schmidt
(1999)
Average member rating: (56 ratings)

6. Shuffling Around
by Andrew Schultz (as Ned Yompus)
(2012)
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

7. The Gostak
by Carl Muckenhoupt
(2001)
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

E.K. says:

Although this can sometimes be infuriating to play, it is still clearly a work of genius.

8. Suveh Nux
by David Fisher
(2007)
Average member rating: (113 ratings)

9. Elizabeth Hawke's Forever Always, by Iain Merrick (2002)
Average member rating: (7 ratings)