In Rootword, each player builds and scores words by playing roots, extending the roots with more letters, and then finishing them off with yet more letters. Longer words are worth more, so extend your roots as long as you like, but watch out! Any root still on the table can be stolen by another player if they can extend it. (from the rulebook) Letter Cards...
Copied from a review by John le Neve Johnson in Games and Puzzles #12: The equipment for the game comprises a plastic bowl in the lid of the box and another one fixed in the bottom half; a gross of small cards in six colours with letters on both front and back; and a six-sided top with a differently-coloured spot on each side. The cards are shuffled and...
Roundtable Games consists of four different 2 - 4 player games that are designed to be played on a common game board, called the Roundtable. The four games are Roundtable Chess, Roundtable Checkers, Wordstack, and Checkers Roulette. The game includes 4 complete sets of chess men, 4 complete sets of checkers (15 per set), and four sets of letter tiles (45...
Travel North American city routes picking up wordy packages. A manifest indicates what needs to be picked up. Packages are identified by the letters in the manifested words and are taken from the adjacent cities on your route. "Route Words" is a word game where you travel from city to city collecting letters to make words. One to six or more players...
Royalty is a word card game that combines aspects of Scrabble and Rummy. Players can build words from their hands as in Scrabble but may also steal other players' words to create different words by combining those letters with their own hand. The two 53 card decks are composed of red and black cards of equal frequency. The decks contain all the letters of...
RSVP is a word game played on both sides of an upright game board, resembling a vertical version of Scrabble, and, being 10 years younger as a game, possibly inspired by it. The object of the game is to form horizontal and vertical words by placing letter blocks in crossword fashion on your side of the board, while blocking the formation of words on the...
Test your language and logic skills: have fun while developing attention and concentration. Ruba Parola is the game of words connected in a logical sequence. Each player has three minutes to add a new word to the sequence of words on the board that is logically connected to the word at the top or the word at the bottom, and then to steal one that is in the...
A rummy-like word card game that was approved by the California Dept. of Education. The deck has 72 cards 68 cards with a letter and a value (2-9), and 4 jokers which act like wild cards. The basic game is Dealer's Choice: the dealer chooses how many to deal per player, and announces the winning condition, e.g. "Make one word using all 5 cards", "Make two...
Word Rummikub, with cards instead of tiles. Players use their hand of cards to make words Rummy-style. In addition to laying new words, a player may rearrange any word to make a new word with the same letters plus at least one new letter. Points are scored for words but if you have more than one word in front of you, only the longest counts (1 point per...
An early game of rummy with words. The deck has 78 letter cards -- the entire alphabet in each color (red, green, & blue). Each letter has a point value from 1 to 5, commoner letters with higher values. Deal 7 cards each for 6 or less players, 6 each for 7 players, 5 for 8 players, and turn up the top of the draw pile to start the discard pile. In a turn...