Each player has a letter grid on a sheet of paper. The players roll dice and move onto letter squares on which they have to solve word puzzles (supplied on question cards). If they succeed, they can write the letter in any position in their grid. The goal is to fill the grid with four words across (different length as shown on the grid) and one down. There...
The goal of the game is to speak the Die Sprache Des Manitu language Each turn the players draw a card and read loudly the syllable, each new turn a new syllable is added and the player must say it without error. from the publisher´s site: "Ma-Ni-Tu (The dodgy syllable game) All the Indians pay attention to the chief who shows the first card. The first...
Make up a word, the longer the better, times running out... so pick up a letter. A word game played on a circular clockwork board. Each player gets a few seconds to place a letter on the board at the end of the currently forming word, scoring points if they form a complete word (1 point per letter in the word). Players can challenge the previous player if...
Word game in the style of crossword puzzles. You have 9 cards in hand and try to play as many connected words as possible. Then you draw back up to to 9 cards in hand again. Next turn, you can lengthen words, transform them into new words, or skip your move to swap cards in hand from the draw pile. A player can appeal the word of another player. If the...
A collection of games for 2-10 outspoken players, aged 10 years and upward, created by Karin Herrmann and Otmar Bettscheider. Central to these games are the colloquialisms, proverbs and familiar quotations, along with expressions and collocations, which we use in the course of a normal day. The 72 picture cards contain a multitude of pointers to these. The...
A Tiptoi game to learn English Explore the town with Amy, Susan, Mike, and Fred. The Tiptoi pen names objects or phrases common sentences in English and the players find these either on the town map or on picture/Word cards. The player who gets the most correct answers wins. There are three different difficulty settings and a Tiptoi pen is required for the...
A compelling word strategy game for 2-4 players, Sproutword is easy to learn but hard to master. The aim is to hold the "Sproutword" - the longest word with more of your colour letters in it than any other one player's colour. Each player takes a number of letters from their bag and places them face-up for all players to see (for example, it is 8 tiles...
A trivia game in which proverbs/sayings have to be completed. Each player puts a player token on one of the empty spaces on the board. Players then take turns rolling the die and move their pawn accordingly. If they land on Hein-Blöd space, they roll the die again to decide which of the six proverbs/sayings printed on the top card they will have to...
Creative cardplay for young and old storytellers. "Whoever digs a pit for others, has gold in the mouth", so goes a famous saying. But wait, that's so not so! In this game, there are 60 playing cards with the first part of the sentence. Now we have to ponder what might these strange sentences. Because the players determine which answer they like best - and...
The thirty second word game. Spuddle involves an unusual blend of quick thinking, cunning, table banging fun. Everyone plays at once, there are no individual turns. Each round begins with the 7 lettered dice being rolled. The timer is turned and players have just thirty seconds to make a unique word form the letters shown. Then it's table banging time...
Spukstaben is a co-operative word game for one to four players. In the game, the players work at an old-school letterpress printshop where hordes of little ghosts appear at night to steal their precious type blocks. These ghosts are called "Spukstaben", a portmanteau of the German words "Spuk" (a spooky commotion) and "Buchstaben" (letters). The players...