Gift Words is a friendly but challenging word rummy game. When one player adds a letter to another player's word, they both score. There is also an advanced version where players get replacement letters when they expand words or make long words for themselves. The basic and advanced games are for 3-6 players. There are additional rules for solitaire, and...
A judge draws cards to help inspire a fictional character. One card gives the first letter of the character's name, the other card gives the first letter of a profession, species, or other descriptor. Then, 2 more cards are drawn. Everyone else thinks of a 2-word ‘gift’, starting with one letter from each card. Whilst people are thinking of gifts, the...
Oklahoma Gin Rummy with words. The deck has 70 cards, each with a letter and a point value between 1 and 10. Ten cards are dealt each player, and the top card turned over to start the discard pile. This is also the "knock" card, and determines the value you must match to knock. In a turn a player draws the top of either pile and either goes out or discards...
Gin Rummy using letters to make words. There are two decks of 52 cards with a letter and point value on each, plus a wild card. One deck is used for 2-3 players, two decks for 4 or more. Each player starts with a 10-card hand, and each turn consists of drawing a card and discarding a card. Once a player can use their 10 cards to make 2-3 words during their...
"Playfully" is a game of society for 2, 3 or 4 players. it is also possible to play in more teams composed by 2 or more players every, extending so the participants' number. The purpose of the game consists of composing or to modify more possible sentences using both his/her own cards received in endowment that those already played on the table. It wins...
Gitterrätsel! Junior is the kid's version of Gitterrätsel!. Rotating the game board reveals a sequence of images, a word or an image in an open field of the board edge is visible. Whoever first discovers the corect sequence of pictures and letters on the board is the winner. Opponents compete to discover the hidden word first corresponding to the picture...
In Give Me Five, your teammates have five seconds to guess a word – but first you need to figure out the word to be guessed and how to clue them in to that same word. The game is played with all players active in each round. A round starts by revealing a theme card and a letter card. Once a player has a word in mind that fits that theme and starts with...
Gladstone's Games to Go describes over 45 games, none requiring any special equipment beyond paper, pencils, and coins. The book is divided into the following sections: I. VERBAL GAMES (no equipment needed) II. COIN GAMES III. PEN-AND-PAPER GAMES A. General (Tic-Tac-Toe variants and Nim) B. "Dots and Doodles" C. "Hidden Secrets" D. Word Games Most of the...