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Lost in Translation Enter a sentence to have it translated from English to five different languages and back. The result is often funny; nothing like the original sentence. www.tashian.com/multibabel

Wireless Power Word Game Challenging word jumbles posted every week. www.wirelesspower.com

Wordies on the Web Translate these arrangements of letters, numbers and/or symbols into a familiar phrase, saying, or cliché. www.cyg.net/~ddoctor

NOVA: Decoding Nazi Secrets Crack the ciphers, send a coded message, and find out what goes on in the minds of code-breakers. www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/decoding

Kid Crosswords and Other Puzzles Choose from several puzzles created just for kids. New puzzles each month. www.kidcrosswords.com

Mockok.com A large collection of palindromes, focusing on palindromic single sentences (spelling the same forwards and backwards). Submissions welcome. www.mockok.com

eLibs.com Creating interactive stories from user inputs. Possibility to add a dialect; also different categories and polls. www.elibs.com

Smurf the Web The WebSmurfer will translate any web page into Smurf jargon. websmurfer.devnull.net

The Nautical Origins for Some Common Expressions Explaining the seafaring origins of some common words, figures of speech, and everyday expressions, like "toe the line" and "scuttlebutt". www.fortogden.com/nauticalterms.html

Phobias Article that lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia -- the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth. www.geocities.com/nallen20/FunnyPhobias.txt

Piece of Pi MadLibs Featuring a collection of madlib stories and poetry. madlibs.freeservers.com

Jim Kalb's Palindrome Connection A collection of links to web pages about palindromes -- phrases that spell the same forwards as backwards, like "Able was I ere I saw Elba". www.palindromes.org

Crossword Puzzles for ESL Students A selection of online crossword puzzles sorted by difficulty. iteslj.org/cw

AskOxford: Word Games Cryptic and easy crosswords, fiendish word games, the history of crosswords, and scrabble and behind the scenes at Countdown. www.askoxford.com/wordgames/?view=uk