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Buchstabensuppe

A soup bowl full of letters, and a scoop for every player! A pretty red bowl and a blue lid, filled with 104 letter tiles comprising 98 letters, 2 flies and 4 blank tiles. The 72 word cards show five words each made up from 3, 4 and 5 letters. You draw a card, choose one of the five words on the card and try to scoop the corresponding letters out of the soup bowl. After each scoop you empty the scoop and search for corresponding letters in the load. A blank tile is a joker and can replace any letter. Any letter you find you place next to the chosen word on your card, all others you put back as quickly as you can into the soup bowl and then pick up the scoop again, stop, scoop and … oh no, a fly has managed to slip into the scoop. So you must hand back all letters in the scoop and also all letters also placed next to the card and put them into the bowl. If you have assembled all necessary letters, arrange them quickly in the right order and place the lid on the bowl! Now your card and the letters are checked. If you are correct you receive the card and the round ends. All draw a new card, the start player lifts the lid off the bowl and with „scoop words-ready-steady-go“ the next round is started. If you are the first to collect four cards, you win.

This special recipe for a soup of letters is a felicitous version despite flies swimming in the soup – the word formation element has been reduced; not fantasy and creativity are in demand, but dexterity and reaction take the lead in game play, all you need to know about letters is their shape for comparison of tiles and card.

Players: 2-4

Age: 6+

Time: 30+

Designer: not stated

Artist: not stated

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Hasbro 2011

Web: www.hasbro.de

Genre: Dexterity games with word formation

Users: For children

Version: de

Rules: de en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Revised edition of a well-known mechanics * demands dexterity and reaction rather than knowledge of words * also good as a family game

Compares to:

Earlier editions of Buchstabensuppe

Other editions:

Scrabble Alphabet Scoup, Hasbro USA

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 1

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 2