Puzzle solving has an inherent appeal to students and is an active way of learning or revising vocabulary. Students associate word puzzles with recreation and can be less daunting as review tools or even as a test. By substituting a visual-special relationship between meaning and definition, puzzles engage more students with the materials and deepen their mastery of the English lexis.
There are many types of word puzzles such as Double Puzzle, Word Search, Crossword and cryptogram etc. I have made a number of different unique word puzzles created on the same topic. So when we are studying a topic in English, say “Family and Friends”, I have made six different sets then split the class into six groups and give them each a unique puzzle to solve.