Predecessor to the Scrabble Lexor, Scrabble Sensor was touted as the hot new electronic word game to spice up game night or to bring Scrabble on the go. Gameplay is more like mastermind and hangman as opposed to traditional Scrabble play. Featuring solitaire, singles, doubles, and scoring variations of play. Players use the keyboard to enter and guess at...
Players compete for high score by forming words, only in this version there are bridge aspects such as bidding and trick-taking. Tiles have suits on them. A Yahtzee-style scoring notepad is included, which contains boxes to fill out for contracts, declarations, trick scores and word scores. All in all, Upper Hand is a strange meld of Scrabble and Bridge, a...
The play consists of forming interlocking words, crossword fashion on a board, using letter tiles. In each of five rounds players compete for high score by forming words on a crossword puzzle pattern on individual game boards, taking advantage of letter usage points and bonus words. In rounds after the first, the board is passed to other players, so that...
From the back of the box: Youngsters will enjoy this exciting race game. Players choose a word card from the 18 colorfully illustrated cards in this game and must match letter cards to complete their word. Everytime they spin the spinner and land on a matching colored space, they receive 1, 2 or 3 letter cards. The player who completes his 3 letter word...
Turntiles is a Scrabble brand game for ages 8 to adult. Played without a board, players have one minute to use their 7 large double-sided wooden tiles to form words crossword-style. Point values for letters are the same as Scrabble. A player may change an opponent's previous word by turning over a tile from that word and adding at least one new letter from...
There are 108 tiles. Each tile depicts an icon, a letter or diphthong. Tiles have been color-coded into four different types. Players draw two tiles from each set randomly. Each player, in turn, tries to make a sentence or phrase using the tiles in their hand and intersecting those tiles already on the 15 by 15 game board. The tiles are used to make...
Based on the long-running (1984-90/1993) NBC game show, two players or teams face off by solving words on a game board laid out on paper. Using a special console, a clue is given about each word. A player selects two numbers at random and the console displays two letters to choose from. Some letters are Stoppers, which pass their turn if used. Play passes...
Fundamentally, Scrabble Overturn is a scoring variant on Scrabble (q.v.) The board is a simple grid, into which one places "letter cylinders" which depict a given letter in four colors. If a player employs existing cylinders in making a word, those cylinders are rotated to show the active player's color. Words are scored as played if they score a minimum...
A cross between Scrabble and Yahtzee. The game has 7 dice (16 in some other versions) with letters (and blank or square symbol for wild char). Carefully place your lettered dices to make high-scoring words in 1 minute turn. The game includes a dice shaker, a 1 min sand-timer and also a score pad (depending on the game version). Each player has 12 turns to...