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Word on the Street

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A game on words and letters, you must conquer 8 letters to win the game. Conquer? A letter is conquered if you move the letter of the road. Road? A board styled like a road with a median, with two lanes in both directions, is divided into 17 rows. In each of these rows you place 17 letter tiles in the median spot – consonants only without J, Q, X and Z - and in alphabetical order from top to bottom.

You play in two teams and choose one side of the category cards for a game. One team draws a card and announces the category for the round, and the other team starts the timer. The active team now looks for a word fitting the category while the timer runs; for each letter in the chosen word the corresponding tile is moved one step towards to the side of the active team. If a letter is moved off the board the team has conquered the letter. So, if a team manages to find a correct word with three letters of the same kind this letter is conquered with one word - e.g. poppy. When the first letter has been moved, the active team cannot change the word anymore. Conquered letters can be used as usual, but are not moved, they stay with the team that conquered them. The opposing team can try to distract the active team and suggest words, even if they do not fit, but can only veto really incorrect words.

Word on the Street is still one of the most attractive word games, as all letters can be used at any time, even without moving a letter; the mechanism of conquering letters to win the game is a marvelous one. All it takes to win is to have is a stock of a lot of words featuring three identical letters.

Players: 4-10

Age: 12+

Time: 25+

Designer: Jack Degnan

Artist: Max Winter Osterhaus, John Kovalic

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Amigo Spiele 2013

Web: www.amigo-spiele.de

Genre: words, association

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: de en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

First published by Out of the Box, 2009

Simple rules

Very attractive mechanism

All letters permanently available

No counting for scoring

Compares to:

All word games on given categories

Other editions:

Out of the Box, USA

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 3

Knowledge (yellow): 3

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0