ワードスナイパー (Word Sniper) is a Japanese speed word game. A deck of cards shows the start or end letters of words, and on the other side a topic or theme. The deck is shuffled and placed showing the theme side face-up. Then two cards are dealt to the table, flipped to show the characters. One letter to start the word, one to end the word. Players race to...
ワードスナイパーエクストリーム (Word Sniper Extreme) is a small expansion deck that works with the base game ワードスナイパー (Word Sniper). The cards work the same as the original game, with themes on one side and letters on the reverse. But the theme is tucked onto a base card (like a pillow on a bed), and so adds a more complex context to the theme. Likewise, the letter side...
The deck has 49 cards with a single letter, one card which can stand for any one of J, K, Q, X or Z, and two wild cards that can stand for any letter. The initial tableau for the game is: 11 cards face up across the top 6 cards each placed on 6 of the top row, alternately face down and face up 5 remaining cards face up as the surplus A play is to make a...
A Hebrew-language word card game that children and adults can play. It includes: 28 letter cards, showing a large Hebrew letter in block print form, a small cursive form of the letter in the corner, and a background illustration of a word that starts with that letter. (Letters that have multiple cards have a different illustration for each one.) 6 word...
Word-Sport was designed to be played in an exciting tournament setting. Players race to create words on the table (no board). When a player has used all tiles, he calls "Go" and everyone takes another tile. This game sets itself apart from other similar real-time word games in that points don't come from the tiles used. Instead, speed is most important....
A quick card game where players are spies who make words out of signals they intercept. Players make words by getting the best cards, but beware for stealing spies! Players can swap a consonant for a vowel, and try to make words with the 4 cards they have every turn. Players are able to change words, or steal letters from each other. The game ends when...
A pencil and paper game in which players use a common set of letters to generate words, crossword-style, on their individual grids. Each player starts with an empty 5x5 grid. One player begins by calling out a letter which all must use, but may place in any empty space on their own sheet. When all are ready, turn passes for the next player to call out....
In Word Stax, players build stacks of cards, trying to find words that fit an increasing number of conditions. Each card in hand gives players 2 choices of conditions to add to the conditions on the word stax in play. The more conditions, the more the stax are worth. If they can think of a word or phrase that fits all the conditions, they can claim the...