From the Pennsylvania Packet, March 1, 1783: "The subscribers beg leave to offer to the Public, a new invented GAME at CARDS, called ORTHO, designed not only for amusement, but instruction in the orthography of the English language ; instead of the four suits, or pips, in common use, these cards are furnished with four sets of the English alphabet, having...
Ortho is a game where players form words from letters on cards. The Ortho deck has 52 cards, each with a letter at either end; the two letters may be the same or different, and if different the player chooses which letter is used. There are also two "Chief" cards that are wild and can stand for any letter. Players start with seven cards each. In a turn a...
Ortho Cat's is a fun way to considerably improve your level in french spelling concernant of words with endings in "i", "é" and "u" : past participles, conjugated verbs, adjectives. Each player has a stack of cards face down in front of him. The 18 ending cards are placed at the center of the table. Each his turn, players turn a card over, give the sound...
The game is on 18 grammatical homophones : ou/où, on/ont, a/à, est/et, ce/se, c'est/s'est/ses/ces, son/sont, leur/leurs. Each player has a stack of cards face down in front of him. The 18 ending cards are placed at the center of the table. Each his turn, players turn a card over, give the sound of the ending and then read the sentence. The other players...
The game covers 10 sounds and their writings: en/an/em/am, on/om, in/un/ain/un, o/au/eau, è/ê/ai/e/ei, j/g, s/z, f/ff/ph, s/c/ç/ss/t, c/k/qu. Each player has a stack of cards face down in front of him. The 18 ending cards are placed at the center of the table. Each his turn, players turn a card over, give the sound of the ending and then read the sentence....
Players roll and move on a board, answering spelling and word-definition questions to advance. The player that reaches one of the final spaces and correctly answers that final challenge is the winner. There are three colors on the board corresponding to "cowardly" (yellow), "bold" (blue), and "superhuman" (red) levels of word difficulty (plus black spaces...
The players are associate salesgnomes at Lord Oscacomp's Adventuring Outfitters and Item Emporium (or, as it's more commonly known, Oscacomp's Item Shop). You have three jobs: sell, sell, sell! On your turn, play an adjective from your hand to the left of the other cards in play. It has to be a higher rank than the leftmost card (this keeps things in...
OSKI is simple word game for two players. Game can be played as paper and pencil game - no tiles are required. Game can be played almost in any language. Game is played on hexagonal board with 19 fields. Initial word has three letters and is written into central three fields. Player on move create some word from existed letters and from new letter added to...
2 players (or 2 teams of 2) turn up a card with a word on, and the first to announce a synonym for the word takes the card, and then a new card is turned over. This continues for 3 minutes, using a sand timer. Then the "brain freeze" round begins, where a single card is turned up. The first player to name a synonym for the word gives the brain freeze card...
"Oops, my name ..." in English. Word game based on French words. In his turn player reads from his card a questions, and other players must find a name as an answer to score a point and get this card. When there are no more cards in the hands of players, the player who has got the most card in fron of him is the winner. Example: Mr. & Mrs. utan have a son...