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...
A word game played with a set of lettered tiles. The basic idea common to all versions is that a common pool of facedown tiles are turned faceup one by one and players simultaneously compete to form words using these tiles (for example by calling 'APE' if the letters 'A', P' and 'E' were available in the pool). Points are scored for forming these words...
The object of the game is to gain the highest score by the end of the game. Each player forms their own interlocking crossword game on a table surface and works independently. Players may arrange (an re-arrange) the positions of their letter tiles as often as they need to complete words. All ties have a face value which, along with a few other special...
Squad Cards is a team-based party game for 4 or more players that evolves the traditional "Fishbowl" experience. Designed for ages 17 and up due to its suggestive content, the game challenges two teams to communicate phrases through three increasingly difficult rounds using a shared, player-curated pool of cards. The game begins with a unique preparation...