The Word-O box contains a set of 13 alpha dice, a sand timer and a dice cup. On a turn a player rolls all the dice. Sets the timer and then tries to make the highest scoring "mini" crossword before the time runs out. Like scrabble, each letter is worth points related to how difficult it will be to use. Some of the die have a wild symbol on them that can be...
The deck has 54 cards: 52 letter cards with a value 2-10, and 2 jokers worth 15. There are 4 games described: Cross Words: Deal 10 each for 2-4 players, 8 each for 5, 7 for 6, 6 for 7. In a turn a player lays down a word, or discards 1 and draws 1. No more than 4 cards can be played in a turn, and all cards played must be in the same row or column, forming...
Word-O-Matic "The Competitive Word Building Game" From the Box- "Race Against Time...Develop More Words Than Your Opponents." "Challenge Yourself...Challenge Others." "Different Letter Combination With Every Spin of WORD-O-MATIC." You pull the handle on the word-o-matic machine (requires 1 "C" battery) and the wheels start moving. You then hit the 5...
Word-O-Rama is a quiz or knowledge game for 3 or more players. Each player receives a pencil and a large pad printed with a 5x5 square. Like a bingo card, it has a "free" square in the middle, but there are spaces to the left for a vertical five-letter keyword, on top for 5 categories, and on the right for scoring. The game box contains a spinner that goes...
Waddingtons Word of Mouth: A quick-witted word game of imagination and bluff. From the back of the box: Word of Mouth is a modern variation of an old game in which players select obscure words from the dictionary and try to make up bluff definitions. In Word of Mouth, the fun has been enhanced as players must place their best on the one definition they...
In Word on the Street, players – either individually or in teams – try to claim letter tiles from the game board. To set up the game, seventeen letter tiles (all the consonants in English other than j, q, x, and z) are placed in a strip down the center of the game board – the median strip of the street, if you will, which has two "traffic lanes" on either...
Word on the Street Junior uses the same game play as 2009’s Word on the Street: Players are presented with a category, choose a word that fits that category, then move the letters in that word toward their side of the street. If a player or team moves eight letters off their side of the board, they win the game. Word on the Street Junior differs from its...
Word on the Street: Expansion 1 includes 216 new double-sided category cards (as well as an additional timer) for use with the Word on the Street base game. For those not familiar with the game, in Word on the Street, players - either individually or in teams – try to claim letter tiles from the game board. To set up the game, seventeen letter tiles (all...
Set of 4 new cards (in French) for the game. Just shuffle them to the deck. The 4 Cards are: Quelque chose que l'on mange avec du ketchup / In mot qui rime avec syphilis Quelque chose qui explose / Le nom d'un Pokémon Quelque chose tire de l'univers de H.P. Lovecraft / Quelque chose qui a disparu de la surface de la Terre Quelque chose qui dure moins de 2...
Word-Opsy is a game of forming words from individual letters on cards. It has two decks, each of which 4 of each vowel (1 of the 4 having a star), 2 of each common consonant, and 1 each for the six rarer consonants. There are rules for three games: In Word-Opsy, in each turn a player lays down a word from the hand, or adds cards to one of their existing...
A word or 2 is a board game based on the T.V. game show of the same name. It aired in South Africa from 1998 - 2008. It was adapted from Des chiffres et des lettres. The object of the game is to be the player with the highest number of points after nine rounds: six word games, two number games, and one conundrum. Playing the game The Word Game Vowel and...