Players form words on their gameboard, extending and rearranging existing words whenever possible using the available letter tiles. If a player overlooks an anagram they could have made on their turn, their opponent can call them out and steal the word. The game ends when one player has formed a word on each of the 8 available lines. The game can be played...
Russian adaptation of Scrabble. Players use their seven drawn letter-tiles to form words on the gameboard. Each word laid out earns points based on the commonality of the letters used, with certain board spaces giving bonuses. But a word can only be played if it uses at least one already-played tile or adds to an already-played word. This leads to slightly...
This crossword strategy game is in Russian language with small magnetic Cyrillic alphabet letter tiles. Played with 2-4 players. Erudite, also called SlovoEd or Scrab (Scrabble) is a small travel game with Cyrillic letter magnetic tiles (black with white letters & point numbers). It is quite similar to English Scrabble, though it is my understanding that...
Jibber Jabble is a game of teamwork, sabotage, and spelling. It consists of several rounds in which you work together to get one person, the Jibber, to guess a secret word based on three clue words provided by the other players. The other players cannot communicate with each other to decide what the clue words will be. Instead, they must spell out the...
Your goal each round is to convey a secret word to the round's guesser. You and your team gets to spell three words in order to do that. Players spells one letter each. The catch? They aren't allowed to discuss what your clue they're trying to spell. The first time you have a perfect clue in mind, but the person next to you says a letter you weren't...
Jitters is a timed word game where players draw cards with prearranged crossword puzzles on them. A player starts the 90-second timer, and then rolls 'lettered' dice, and must use the face-up letters to fill in the crossword with qualifying words before time runs out. Each crossword puzzle card has a point value, which increases with the card's difficulty....
Twenty-four cards featuring items you might find in your local grocery shop. The names on the cards are in the form of anagrams. Before a party, the cards are placed around a room where they can be easily seen. guests are provided with a score card and invited to solve the anagrams, placing the correct name on their score card. The host states a time when...
Each player works with five letter tiles on his/her tray and all the letters on the board, rearranging, adding, and trading them, building and claiming longer and longer words each turn. Simultaneously, as players build words horizontally, they also look for a JUMBULAYA. A JUMBULAYA is a seven-, eight-, or nine-tile word that can be spelled vertically on...
An old crossword card game from the 30s, I was given my copy of Kan-U-Go in 1975. It has small cards with letters and values, and simple rules for playing and scoring. But the cards aren't small enough and the game soon fills a table. Not bad, but it's obvious why Scrabble sells. Copyright September 10th, 1934 by T.G. Porter (Printers) Ltd., Leeds 9. My...
There are persons who like numbers, for whom the letters represent a "Karma" in his lives. On the opposite side there are persons who prefer the words and the numbers are an absolute Karma. In this game there are 104 tiles with letters on one side and numbers/math symbols on the other. In the first stage of the game you should first put all the 104 tiles...
Keenograms combines the word-spelling of anagrams with the gameplay of keno/bingo. Each player gets a 5x5 card with 25 letters of the alphabet on it. (There are 6 cards in the Popular edition, 16 in the Deluxe edition.) Player agree on length of the word allowed, e.g. 3 letters, or 5 letters, etc. The dealer then shuffles the deck of 26 letter cards -- one...