Each player plays his letter blocks to the cross-word layout on the board, trying to spell the Keyword or other words or plays his letters on the squares that give him the highest score. Players should try to play out all their letters before his opponents do, for letters left in a player's hand at the end of play are counted against them. The highest...
In Thailand, There is an attempt to create boardgames that use the Thai alphabet in a Scrabble like game and its name is Kham Khom (คำคม - meaning: epigram) Instead of using 26 English - Latin letters, the game uses the Thai alphabet. The Thai alphabet has 44 consonants , 20 vowels, 4 Diacritics and some symbols that are necessary in usage. The game uses...
Each player is dealt 6 word-cards. A story is read out and players are invited to add one of their word-cards at certain parts of the story. If a word is accepted, the player gets a Joker which scores points at the end. When the story is finished players score-up; Any unused word cards - -1 Any Joker - +2 Play a pre-agreed number of stories and the highest...
The object of the game is simple, the first person who has no more cards in their hands wins the game. To do this, the player must create a correlation between the card played by the previous participant and one of the cards in their hand. The player must use the magic formula “Kiddi” to relate and explain it. The other players judge whether this link is...
This year, 2017, marks the 20th birthday of Splotter as a company. We started in 1997 by going to the Essen games fair, not knowing what to expect. We had 20 handmade copies each of 3 simple games, in videoboxes. We sold about half of them. Since then, we have come a long way! We wanted to celebrate this history somehow with our fans. We considered...
Kiitos is a fast-tempo, card-based word game with novel, simple rules and deep, emergent game play. Can you make a word with the letters in your hand, and what letters that may or may not be in your opponents’? Players start by playing one letter of a word and saying a target word. Then subsequent players build up the target word, either playing the next...