The object of Relax is to get rid of all the cards in your hand. Each card in the deck has a letter on it, or a wildcard. One card is turned face up at the start. The next player has to make a word starting with that letter and constructed from the letters on the cards in his hand. The next player's word must start on the last letter of the first player's...
From the publisher: ever wonder why? We're not just happy, we're happy as a clam? We call something jumbo, instead of just big? We don't just talk, we chew the fat? orijinz, the original word and phrase card game. It’s a snap to learn: easy instructions will have you playing in just a few minutes. Game play is simple: one player reads the origin and the...
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...