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Boggle Kartenspiel

Card on Card for Word from Word

Boggle is a well-known game, you have a tumble of letters and must form words with these letters. In this game this mechanism is used for a card game. The game comprises 55 letter cards, each has a different letter on both sides; the corners of the cards show both letters.

The game is started with a correct four-letter word, which is laid out by one player with cards from the stock. The remaining cards are dealt evenly to the players.

On a signal all begin to play at the same time and always place one letter card from their hand on one of the cards on the table so that a new word is formed. You call out the new word; the other players can veto your word. Basically, each word is correct in each of its grammatically valid form, as listed in the Duden. Names that are listed in the Duden, are valid, too, word from other languages or abbreviations on the contrary are not allowed. The same word can be used more then once in the game, but you cannot the place the same letters onto each other. Empty cards are jokers, you name the letter it is supposed to replace, this is valid until the joker is covered with a card. When you can play your last card you win the game. If it is not possible to form a correct word earlier in the game the player with the fewest cards still in his hand wins the game.

In this card version you do not use a mixture of letters, the letters offered are reduced to a word with four letters, the placing of the cards on top of each other reminds me of the sister game Topwords – but the card game is a cute version for all fans of word games, good for travelling and a good vocabulary training.

Spieler         : 2-4

Alter            : ages 8 and up

Dauer           : ca. 15 min

Autor           : not cited

Grafik          : not cited

Titel            : ident

Preis            : ca. 6,00 Euro

Verlag          : Hasbro 2010

www.hasbro.de

Genre                    : Word placement game

Zielgruppe             : For families

Mechanismen         : Form words with cards

Kommentar:

Standard mechanism

Starting set-up with a word, not a letter tumble

Good for travelling

Good vocabulary training

Vergleichbar:

Boggle, Scrabble and especially Topwords

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