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Wortblitz

Find words quickly and win!

Words are supposed to assist alien being Teo to familiarize himself with planet Earth. In order to achieve this he needs to hear as many different terms on many different subjects.

The game comprises a game unit, featuring six blue letter dice and one category die in the middle; all dice move in their holes. For a game you choose one of three category dice – each of them features twelve categories – and place it into the unit, the so-called Letter Tornado. Then you shuffle for category and letters of the round by rolling the Tornado over your hand and then you place the Letter Tornado on the table, ensuring good visibility for all. Now all players try quickly to find six terms in the given category and starting with the six letters visible on the letter dice. The starting player of the round can end the round for all by calling “stop”, even if he has not written down all answers. All stop and read out their words and you score one point for each of your answers that is unique. For answers made up from more than one word with the same starting letter, for instance Donald Duck, you score one point per word. Personal names are allowed. After four rounds you win with most points.

Stadt-Land-Fluss can now boast a huge family of variants and versions of the game, this new version, too, is a nice extension for the range of games on “find words corresponding to letters and categories”. The Letter Tornado works well and provides quick play. The selection of 36 categories in combination with six letters per letter die is big enough and the option to end a round early introduces a nice element of tactic.

Players: 2+

Age: 8+

Time: 20+

Designer: not named

Artist: anoka design

Price: ca. 16 Euro

Publisher: HCM Kinzel 2015

Web: www.hcm-kinzel.de

Genre: Word finding

Users: For families

Special: 2 players

Special: Many players

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Good selection of categories

Practical game unit

Nice version of a standard game mechanism

Compares to:

All games on finding words for given categories and starting letters

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 2

Knowledge (yellow): 2

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0