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...
In Crosswhords! players cooperatively construct a barred crossword, a crossword where heavy lines drawn along grid squares separate words instead of black squares. Players start with an empty grid. They devise a list of categories and then enter a word or phrase in the middle of the grid. On your turn, you think of a word that fits in one of the categories...
The object of this word game is to get rid of all your letters. Each player receives 10 letter blocks to start the game. On a turn, you must play at least 2, and no more than 4 of your letters to form a word. The word formed must connect to at least one word already played on the table (except the first word played). If you have no play, you must discard 1...
A card game in which players build a crossword on the table. There are 52 cards, each with one letter on it. NOTE: This specific game with 52 cards, with no point values on the cards, was only published by "Cross Word Co". The similarly-named game published by Russell Manufacturing, with (48, 64, or 96) cards with point values, belongs on a separate page...
Crossword Dice is a word dice game that involves each player throwing seven dice, each with a variety of letters and wild spaces on them. After rolling the dice, each player is given a fixed amount of time to construct a crossword based on those letters. Bonus points are scored for using letters in more than one word. After tallying your score, the dice...