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Scrabble Freestyle

Words in any direction

Scrabble Freestyle - Name and packaging promise something unusual - in the roughly sand-timer-shaped box we find a scrabble variant without a board! In the box itself you then find letter tiles as usual, but they are different, too, they are chips, circular and have a dent that fits the curvature of another chip.

All letters are turned over face-down and shuffled, and then you take 54, 36 or 27 letter chips in case of two, three or four players, and turn up seven of them. The first player places a word, letters touching each other dent to curvature. Then all place words in correct spelling, in any direction and direction of reading, even with branching off within a word. But, a letter of the new word must be on table as part of a word already, for instance, if you have the letters for "yield" you cannot use the "y" to turn "cheek" into "cheeky" and then complete "yield", you must use one of the "e" in "cheek" to place "yield". Chips of two different words can touch each other curvature to curvature. At the end of your turn you turn up letters until you have seven open-faced ones. Also new in this version are actions chips for missing a turn, reversing turn order or handing over letters - those chips can be placed at the end of a regular turn, albeit only one per turn. Should you turn up "discard 2 or 3 letters" you pass them to one or several other players, you can take them from your face-down stock or from the open letters. If you cannot place a word, you exchange letters. If you place your last letter, you win.

Scrabble Freestyle - Scrabble wow! What a fantastic variant! And it includes elements from UNO, too!

Players: 2-4

Age: 10+

Time: 30+

Designer: not named

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 13 Euro

Publisher: Mattel 2013

Web: www.mattel.de

Genre: Word placement

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de en es fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Cute new packaging

Fantastic new rules

Elements from UNO like changing direction of play or missing a turn

Compares to:

Other editions of Scrabble

Other editions:

Editions in English, French and Spanish

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 3

Knowledge (yellow): 3

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0