Composition is a word spelling, card-drafting game that puts the player in the role of a maestro! Players compose words to earn roses and ultimately gain Ovations and Award cards. Whichever player has the most of these cards at the end of the game wins. Each round a number of cards are laid out on the center of the table, with the maestro holding the baton...
The main goal of Confabulation is to score points by spelling words. First, a category card is drawn and a category is chosen. This can be done by playing the categories in order, or by rolling a die or otherwise randomly selecting one if just one round is to be played. Second, each player is dealt 6 word cards, which have 3x3 grids of letters on them. A...
User review: Mirroring the television series, all players play simultaneously. The clock from the series is replaced by a gizmo that plays the think music from the series. The player who can make the longest word from nine random letters is the only person to score in the word game. The player who can come closest to target number using six random numbers...
This is the word-game portion of the popular British game show. (It does not include the numbers game or the conundrum game.) It includes 22 vowel cards, 33 consonant cards, a tray, and sand timer. During a player's turn they turn up 9 cards from the vowel and consonant decks, with the balance of vowels and consonants up to them. They then turn the timer...
Each card is representing a color. yellow: spell a word, red: count to eleven, blue: puzzle and green: collection of instruments. In the corners of each card all the colors are present. There are two kinds of action cards. Cards that let a player draw cards and card that avoid drawing cards. Each player receives seven cards. The other cards are placed face...
Scrabble clone that can be dated to about 1950, before the first official Swedish edition of Scrabble. As in Scrabble, gameplay consists of taking turns to place letter tiles forming words on the board to score points, then refilling your hand of tiles. Once there are no more tiles in the stock, the first player to empty their hand ends the game and earns...
Each player takes the coloured markers of one colour. The letter cards are dealt to the players face down. Each letter corresponds to a letter contained within the eight crops named on the game board. In the base game, each player in turn order plays a letter card from their hand face up in the centre of the board. They then place one of their coloured...
A crossword card game from the late 1930s during a craze of such games, published by a newspaper company. Its games are a slight twist on the usual rules of its rivals. There are 54 cards in the deck. 52 of them have a letter and a value from 10 to 50 (the Q card actually has two letters, QU); there are also 2 jokers (wild cards) worth 100. The rules to 6...
This game is basically Scrabble. It might even be a precursor to the game or a take off on the original game. I'm not sure because on top of having no Publisher or Designer listed on the box, there is no year of publication listed either. The object is for each player to play out his letters by forming words to the crossword layout. Some differences from...
In Cross-Wordsmith players enter words into a grid. Unlike in most such games each grid space does not contain a letter but a section of a word: a prefix, root, or suffix. Many of the grid spaces are color-coded to show which of the three they must contain, while others can have any section. A list of allowable sections is provided; on their turn a player...