wordplay

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Despite this, Wardle and a team of collaborators recently launched Parseword, a wordplay game inspired by Wardle's attempts to get to grips with cryptic crossword puzzles.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

The narrative wanders through exuberant wordplay and digressions that can become distracting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Frank Drebin, Neeson kept us in hysterics with a stupid-brilliant barrage of surreal wordplay and daffy slapstick.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

Does Ellie have any sort of sense of wordplay?

From Salon • Nov. 2, 2025

You’d make it perfectly literal, without any wordplay or comedy that would confuse preschoolers.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell