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Scrabble trickster

A word anyplace, next one passes

Scrabble – the probably best known letter placement or crossword placement game. Who is not familiar with the board featuring a symmetric pattern of special spots? And who has never grumbled about the continuously high scores of his neighbor or of lacking opportunities to place that wonderful word?

Well, with Scrabble trickster help is on the way. This new edition introduces new spots on the board and new cards to vary the standard rules of the game. The board now features 32 trick spots, which give you one of 22 trick cards. The game is played using the standard rules, but: If you cover a trick spot with a letter, you draw a trick card from the stack. This card can be used immediately on another player, but not to the advantage of your just placed word. So you can steal the score your predecessor has just achieved.  Other possibilities offered by the cards are to let a player pass a turn or place a word anywhere on the board or to place a word backwards. You can never hold more than 3 trick cards at the same time, but are allowed to discard an unused one to draw a new one. Cards that have been used go out of the game; if you manage to use all three of your trick cards in one turn you score a bonus. As in all Scrabble games you win with the highest score at the end of the game.

A cute version, which changes the way you play; with 22 cards for 32 spots, very often a run on the trick spots starts at first, sometimes with very short words, and the good bonus spots are taken card of later. I personally like the possibility to place a word anywhere on the board best, this helps to get rid of a nasty Q or X.

Players: 2-4

Age: 10+

Duration: 90+

Designer: not stated

Artist: not stated

Price: ca. 35. Euro

Publisher: Mattel 2011

Web: www.mattel.de

Genre: Word placement game

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Beautiful components * interesting variations of the standard rules * good for players with very different ages

Compares to :

All editions of Scrabble, other word placement games like Topwords, etc.

Other editions:

Scrabble Trickster, Mattel Inc., USA

Chance: 2

Tactic: 1

Strategy: 0

Creativity: 1

Knowledge (yellow): 2

Memory: 0

Communication: 0

Interaction: 2

Dexterity: 0

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