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Words-within-words in five minutes

A five-minute word game: collect words that contain a given word fragment.

Time
⏱ 5 min
Difficulty
◆ easy

What you need

  • Paper
  • Pens

How to do it

  1. Give everyone a pen and a sheet of paper.
  2. One player calls out a word or fragment, for example “an”.
  3. For five minutes, write down as many words as possible that contain it, such as Anna, Kanne, Banane, fangen.
  4. Whoever finds the most words wins.

Variations

  • Shorten the time, or count only words with at least four letters.

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