From the designer: The firsts are born in bursts, and the best of the rest are obsessed." This is how I defined that illusive state, the 'open' or 'perfect' game, in 1976. Since perfection is all but impossible to achieve, I decided to design all-inclusive or 'peri-' games, Jigsol' is the first of the series. Designed to play with more versatility and...
Game based on a popular television show where Jimmy Saville (an eccentric disc jockey) fulfils viewer's ambitions. If you were lucky and picked for the show, you not only fulfilled your ambition, you were also awarded a Jim Fixed It For Me badge. This became a much sought after item. The players are children, wanting to have an ambition accepted. A 'Jim'...
Jitters is a timed word game where players draw cards with prearranged crossword puzzles on them. A player starts the 90-second timer, and then rolls 'lettered' dice, and must use the face-up letters to fill in the crossword with qualifying words before time runs out. Each crossword puzzle card has a point value, which increases with the card's difficulty....
From the publisher: "Jogo Picolé, the game of crosswords is now a boardgame to play with your friends! On you turn, roll the dice and move your pawn. You may land on a space with a question that should be answered with a word of up to three letters or over four letters, or even a word that worth twice the points. The most important thing is to not leave it...
The West African Party Game! Your favorite game formats and words that represent you in one game!! In the box : over 450 words, a sand timer, a game guide and a mini West African overview. The goal is to get your team to say the word on the card. Sixty-second rounds require quick thinking. Choose a color to play and flip the cards so that the color you...
"The most versatile game of the century It's an exciting and fast paced word game where everyone has an equal chance to play every turn. It's a game you can play with your grandparents or your grandchildren and everyone in between. Best of all, it's a family fun game where the only limit is your imagination." In the base game, three random letter cards are...
Jot is a Scrabble-like game, played on a "write-on, wipe-off" board with special pens. Rather than building words from a limited number of letters, each player first rolls a special die, which serves both to dictate the limits of his/her word, and as a one-minute timer. (The die itself is pressure-sensitive, and will start timing when rolled.) Players must...
The object of the game is to find your opponent's secret word. Each player chooses a five letter word and writes it down so the other cannot see it. The word should be in the dictionary and can include letters that repeat. One player now announces a test word and the second player reveals how many letters in that word are the same as the letters in his...
Morning in an unfamiliar room. Hotel. Headache. Buzzing phone. Roaring chief editor: "Where is the promised article? Where are you messing about?" Tangled language. Your gibbering voice can't stop this onslaught. "I don't care about your excuses! Get up and do something! I want to have a damn good story on the table right away. Otherwise you're fired!"...
A bilingual word game that uses a game board representing various rooms in a middle school. The goal is to be the first player to complete proper Spanish sentences in each of eight rooms. The objectives of this board game are twofold: 1. To teach bilingual students proper Spanish sentence structure. 2. The game also introduces students to the challenges...
From the publisher's website: "JUGGLER is a word game for 2 to 6 players, played on a table with a special deck of 70 alphabetic cards (one letter per card, with a score value - E is worth 1, J is worth 8 ...etc). The Juggler card deck actually consists of two decks, one of 22 vowel cards with red backs and faces, the other of 48 black consonant cards....