The Never Ending Game

Angol leírás

The Never Ending Game has over 100 letter tiles. On their turn each player takes a letter and either starts a word or adds a letter to those already in play. The object is not to finish a word of 4+ letters. Before playing a letter a player may challenge the previous player in one of two ways:

For completing a word of 4+ letters, decided by consensus of the players or by checking an agreed-on dictionary.
For making a string of letters that is not part of a valid word. The challenged player says what word uses those letters if they can.

However the challenge resolves, that ends the round, the letters are discarded, and the winner of the challenge starts the next word. The game can be played in one of two modes:

Winning: The winner of each challenge gets a token, and the first player to an agreed-on total (like 8) wins.
Elimination: The loser of each challenge gets a token, and when a player gets an agreed-on total, they are out for the rest of the game.

There are also 4 difficulty levels:

Easy. New letters may only be added at the end of the current sequence of letters.
Medium. New letters may be placed at either end of the current sequence.
Expert. New letters may be placed anywhere in the current sequence, but the letters' order must be preserved.
Genius (Anagram level). After adding a new letter the entire set of letters may be rearranged in order.

Since a player must place a new letter on their turn, bluffing is frequent, and a player must catch a previous error and challenge the previous player in order to end the current round.