What are word games like in languages other than English?

Is it rare or commonplace for speakers of other languages to invent and play endless written and spoken games with their words?

For instance, are crossword puzzles and acrostics found in other languages? How about games such as Scrabble, hangman, and Perquackey?

I would think it would be hard to make games and puzzles out of languages that have very consistent-appearing morphology, such as nouns that commonly end in vowels or a lot of verbs with the same structure. Maybe there’s a totally different concept behind them?

And if word games exist at all in languages that have syllabaries instead of “spelling” words, I imagine they’d have to take a different form altogether.

Do you know of any languages whose speakers simply don’t play with their words at all?

(I’m not talking about puns, witticisms, double entendres, and other solo displays of verbal acuity. I’m talking about games, with rules, challenges, and goals.)

I would be willing to guess that there are some considered too sacred to be turned into puzzles, toys, and games, but do people do it anyway?

Tags as I wrote them: language, words, word games, games, puzzles, spelling, crosswords, English.