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WORD GRID

FAsT INTERACTIVE SEARCH FOR WORDS

In each puzzle magazine you can find word grids, where you look for given words. Here this form of puzzles has been transformed into a fast game against your opponents, because all players search at the same time.

For the basic game the 30 word cards are stacked face down. You roll the die to determine the number of words that must be found in the grid. The same amount of word cards is turned up and each player looks as fast as possible on his own letter sheet for those words. The words can be made up from letters that are arranged horizontally, vertically or diagonally and can be in usual direction of reading or be arranged backwards. If you did find all words on the cards you stop the round, each player scores one point for each correctly found word. If you stop the round and did not find all words, you do not score at all. After four rounds the player with the highest score wins.

If you play with the category cards you turn up a category and look for the number of words determined by the die and fitting the category.

Word Grid also offers the choice of playing with words in English, the cards all show definitions in both languages and the letter sheets have been made up accordingly. By the way, those letter sheets are nearly all different so that it does not help to glance at your neighbor’s sheet.

Word Grid offers a well-made variation of a well-known mechanism and is an exceptionally well-working learning and training game for reading, concentration, pattern recognition and English vocabulary. For players have differing reading abilities one can play with different numbers of words per player.

Spieler         : 2-4

Alter            : ages 8 and up

Dauer           : ca. 30 min

Autor           : Wolfgang Dirscherl

Grafik          : Juliane Burgstaller

Titel            : Buchstabengitter

Preis            : ca. 15 Euro

Verlag          : IQ Spiele

                     www.iq-spiele.de

Genre                    : Word searching game

Zielgruppe             : For families

Sprache        : de en

Regeln         : de en

Text im Spiel : yes

Kommentar:

Well-known basic mechanism

Bilingual, English and German

Good educational game as well as a good family game

Vergleichbar:

Gitterrätsel and other word searching games

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