Word game in the style of crossword puzzles. You have 9 cards in hand and try to play as many connected words as possible. Then you draw back up to to 9 cards in hand again. Next turn, you can lengthen words, transform them into new words, or skip your move to swap cards in hand from the draw pile. A player can appeal the word of another player. If the...
A compelling word strategy game for 2-4 players, Sproutword is easy to learn but hard to master. The aim is to hold the "Sproutword" - the longest word with more of your colour letters in it than any other one player's colour. Each player takes a number of letters from their bag and places them face-up for all players to see (for example, it is 8 tiles...
Spukstaben is a co-operative word game for one to four players. In the game, the players work at an old-school letterpress printshop where hordes of little ghosts appear at night to steal their precious type blocks. These ghosts are called "Spukstaben", a portmanteau of the German words "Spuk" (a spooky commotion) and "Buchstaben" (letters). The players...
Now it's getting EXTREMELY! We've given STADT LAND VOLLPFOSTEN a twist. You're looking for a suitable word for a category. You know ... But! Certain letters have to be in the word ... and others are strictly forbidden. And sometimes it's the other way round. Who can find the right words? —description from the publisher Jetzt wird‘s EXTREM dreckig! Wir...
Starlots is four games in one played on a two-sided cloth board. The various games encourage both competition and teamwork. The big adventure game on the map side of the board works like a miniature Lightraider mission with snippets of adventure on every card. You’ll face trolls, goblins, flowing lava, portals, and much more. The movement racing games on...
Stinker (a.k.a. Bananagrams Against Humanity according to the dirtier playtesters, even though it's not as inevitably dirty as Cards Against Humanity) is a word game and party game, which uses anagrams to create humor. Players race to form responses to prompts from jumbles of letter tiles, and then try to explain what on earth their responses mean, for...
Every player draws 15 flip-flop shaped pieces, each with a letter on one side and a different letter on the other. Players race to create chains of words in which the final letter(s) of one word is/are the first letter(s) of the next. Play continues until one player completes a word chain using all 15 pieces. He gets 5 points. The player with the longest...
Syzygy is a real-time crossword-puzzle building game. Each player starts with a number of tiles, and attempts to build them into a network of words. The first player to use all his/her tiles calls 'Draw' and everyone must draw an additional tile. Repeat until all tiles (> 300) are used. Crosswords can be rearranged as needed until the game ends. Winner is...
Editions vary, but a familiar phrase or name is hidden on the gameboard. Either the letters represented by cards are face down or the letters are covered by slides. Before guessing letter, a player must spin the eponymous Wheel of Fortune to determine how much each letter, if revealed, is worth to one’s account. Every spin is risk, however, because one...
A fun board game Secrets of the Pharaohs. Learn hieroglyphs and have fun discovering the secrets of the pharaohs. On board place tiles face down tile side is with alphabet letters and face up with hieroglyphs. There is reference what letter is with which hieroglyphs, but game encouraged to remember pairs as players can only see side with hieroglyphs. 2 to...
The game is incredibly simple yet entertaining and fun for the whole whānau. Each card features a number of symbols. Each of these symbols will have a direct Māori translation, which players will need to memorize and learn. Players will flip over two cards competing to find the matching symbols; the first player to call out the correct translation wins the...