Horseplay was originally designed in the 1980s, then published online in 2014. The game uses a square 9x9 grid as a playing area. Players begin in the middle of one side of the board, called the "paddock." Letter tiles are placed on alternating tiles on the grid, with empty spaces between each tile. The players then use chess-style movement to collect the...
A cross between Trivial Pursuit and Word Games. "Mystery Word" is revealed as players solve other word puzzles often in the form of a trivia question. Different categories require different types of questions answered. A good diversion. Huggermugger is an excellent word game for 2 to 4 players or teams. As players travel across the board in various...
How does a farm work? How is organic honey produced? Who knows what are the ripening times of the tomato or how the vine is grown? Learning the rhythms and mechanisms of agriculture, the good one, and discovering the healthiest and quality foods by playing. The players are called to face the tests of the game in four different categories: Vegetable Garden...
Red Herrings and White Roses is the first expansion for Illiterati that will feature new scenarios, new books, raid bosses called the Unwritten, and the heroic Protagonists who have come to your aid! Mix and match Protagonists from this expansion and all future ones to assemble your perfect team. Semper Lectio Librarians! Venture to the realm of Marquee...
Jargon, is like Scrabble. The board features a familiar if slightly skewed grid for placing letter tiles. Every round, every turn of Jargon features a particular lingo or category: could be "Military" or "Travel" -- there's 40 in all. The twist is that you get points by making longer words, no matter what the letters AND you can use slang, abbreviations...
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....