The Game of Words

By Willard R. Espy

Book Overview

Attention language lovers: prepare to be taken prisoner. Willard R. Espy, word gamester extraordinaire, has put together more than 200 sublimely satisfying diversions -- including acrostics, clerihews, epigrams, cryptograms, spoonerisms, palindromes, puns, and much, much more. Presented here are the wildest array of tongue twisters, brainteasers, and other mind-benders new and old, along with notes on their histories, tips on how to play them or solve them, and page after page of mind-boggling challenges you won't find anywhere else. It is a celebration of the energy, wit, flexibility, and fun of the English language by its most ardent aficionado.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579123244
• ISBN13: 9781579123246
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Very positive review which laments the book's unavailability

I am terribly sorry that this marvelous book is out-of-print! Willard Espy has collected a fabulously fun collection of anagrams, tongue twisters, vocabulary stretchers and verbal brain busters in this splendid volume. I have been trying to replace my copy of this book ever since mine was "borrowed" by an acquaintance and never returned! Word to the publisher: REPRINT! I'd rate this one six stars!

The best of the best of word games

An incredible compendium of every form of word play known to man and womankind. I love this book and wish it was still in print. Right now I have to check it out from the library.