From the rules: "Chessword is an original game combining chess and words. All the chess pieces are used except the pawns, and they move and capture the opponent's pieces the same way as in chess. But instead of attempting to check the King, each player tries to gain all the letters of the chosen word before his opponent." Played on a 8 by 14 chessboard...
Another variant in the Dictionary family of games, of which Balderdash is the widest-known member. Chicanery consists of a deck of 51 cards, each with 5 obscure words and their definitions. The players form two teams, and each team starts with one card; one word at a time is used, starting with the top word on the card. Each player on a team makes up a...
Chinese Character Puzzle Game: Top-Bottom Combinations selects 108 highly combinable radicals and components to create character-building puzzle pieces (144 plastic pieces in total, including 6 blank pieces that can be used as wildcards). Using a top-bottom combination format, this game enables the formation of over 300 different Chinese characters. Each...
Players build a chain of words using tiles containing Chinese words, radicals and strokes. Each adjacent pair of tiles must combine to form a word. By way of comparison with English, it is akin to creating a string of compound words where the second part of the first word is the first part of the following word. For example: seahorse -> horseman ->...
Chocolatext is a two-player word game that contains chocolate letters in which players take turns challenging each other to create words in a category of their choice. The game begins with a set of eight letters. One player defines a category and challenges the other player. The challenged player has to come up with a word in the chosen category that...
A collection of games played on boards which fit into a plastic holder. The plastic surface had a grid of holes in it, some of which were exposed by holes in the boards. A set of generic pegs were used to play the games. The original edition of the game from MBC Nome Company had twenty different game boards. Thirteen of these were sold in three boxed sets...
The game comes with a Match Play deck and a Scratch Play deck, and each player decides which to use on his turn. Scratch Play proceeds in Scattergories fashion, as players, within a time limit, write phrases that include the word that is read off the card. Score for phrases that no one else has written. A card in Match Play features three words with a...