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Oscar Wilde was famous for his witty wordplay.
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However, the puzzles are rarely straightforward, using homophones and wordplay, among other techniques, to keep players challenged.
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Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
Carlo Emilio Gadda, for example, was an old-school modernist, interested in wordplay and dialect and spiraling digressions.
—Christopher Tayler, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
There’s wordplay, roasts, physical gags, callbacks, and visual jokes littering the backgrounds of scenes to reward eagle-eyed viewers.
—Vulture Staff, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
The puzzles are rarely straightforward, using homophones and wordplay, among other techniques, to keep players challenged.
—George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
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Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
Carlo Emilio Gadda, for example, was an old-school modernist, interested in wordplay and dialect and spiraling digressions.
—Christopher Tayler, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
There’s wordplay, roasts, physical gags, callbacks, and visual jokes littering the backgrounds of scenes to reward eagle-eyed viewers.
—Vulture Staff, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
The puzzles are rarely straightforward, using homophones and wordplay, among other techniques, to keep players challenged.
—George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
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“Wordplay.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wordplay. Accessed 16 Jan. 2025.
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wordplay
noun
word·play
ˈwərd-ˌplā 
: wit that is based on the clever use of words
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