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Word Up

smells good with a B?

Find words to requirements of topics and letters! 60 cards out of 66 topic cards name a topic like “something made of wood” or “something that you cannot buy”. Six topic cards name additional requirements for the word - more than ten letters, six letters, the letter is present twice, word without the letter, letter at the end of the word or word with two letters; for this, you reveal two letter cards and the word must contain both letters, not necessarily next to each other and not as first letter of the word, either.

24 red letter cards feature every letter of the alphabet, except for Q, X and Y, and also one card “Mischen”.

A topic card is revealed - for a blue card you then reveal a red letter card. If a yellow topic card appears, you turn over another topic card; if it is again a yellow one, you put it under the stack and keep repeating this until a blue topic card appears. Whoever is first to call out a suitable word accepted by all, receives the topic card and the letter card is put underneath the stack. An “M” is always also a “W” and vice versa and the word wins that is called out first, regardless with which of two letters. If you earned the card, you are next to reveal cards. When “Mischen” is turned up, all red cards are shuffled and a new one is turned up. If nobody finds a solution within ca. one minute, a new letter is turned up. You win, if you have earned seven cards.

This is an easy, simple game and a nice variation of a familiar standard mechanism; but the details are very good and is fun, especially when all move their lips silently counting letters for a ten-letter-word! An ideal game for travels and holidays.

Players: 2-10

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: Nikolay Pegasov

Artist: Sergey Dulin

Price: ca. 9 Euro

Publisher: Abacusspiele 2016

Web: www.abacusspiele.de

Genre: Words, topics, letters

Users: For families

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: de en it pl ru

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Standard topic

Standard mechanisms

Varied with nice details

Good travel game

Compares to:

Word finding games using topics and letter requirements

Other editions:

Alderac (en), dV Giochi (it), Hobby World (en, ru), Rebel (pl)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 1

Knowledge (yellow): 3

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 0