The Duit set has over 500 thick cardboard tiles, each being either a letter or a black square, and a booklet for 10 different games, most of which are actually puzzles: - Crossword-O-Grams. 5 crossword puzzles, with clues to construct a the puzzles as well as solve it. - Scrambled Letters. About 60 scrambled words in different categories, which players can...
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...