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The game comprises cards featuring letters, forming a deck for consonants and a deck for vowels; to each letter a certain value is assigned and for each of three languages named a somewhat different selection of letters is used. To are dealt cards – only consonants at the start – and must make up a word from your cards on hand, of course if possible entirely without left-over cards. If you manage to do this and use all card in hand you can “go out” and hope that this will result in other players having to keep expensive cards they cannot use. After someone has gone out the other players have one more chance to improve their word. As a basic turn you pick up a card and discard a card. You can choose if you want to draw from the consonant stack or from the vowel stack or take a card from the discarded cards. The move of draw and discard is the core of the game, because it is done in a very unusual way. You are allowed to draw a card without discarding a card; you can improve your chances for a good word, but at the same time risk more bad points if someone else goes out first. You are also allowed to discard a card without drawing a card. If you discard a card, you place them on a free spot on the table, because in this game you can pick up any card that has been discarded, not only the one that was discarded last. So take care what you discard for others! This way of changing cards in hand and varying the number of cards on hand introduces a lot of tactics into the game, but keep in mind; you want to create a word without left-over cards.
A tidbit for friends of word games.
Players: 2-6
Age: 12+
Time: 30+
Designer: Graham Lipscomb
Artist: Graham Lipscomb
Price: ca. 8 Euro
Publisher: Graham’s Games 2010
Web: www.grahams-games.co.uk
Genre: Word game
Users: With friends
Version: multi
Rules: de en fr
In-game text: yes
Comments:
Basically a standard mechanism of forming words and scoring negative for left-overs * entirely new tactics and new possibilities due to discard/draw rules
Compares to:
Other word forming games with letters, e.g. Scrabble or Topwords
Other editions:
Currently none
Chance (pink): 1
Tactic (turquoise): 0
Strategy (blue): 0
Creativity (dark blue): 3
Knowledge (yellow): 0
Memory (orange): 0
Communication (red): 0
Interaction (brown): 1
Dexterity (green): 0