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Kross the Wordz

letters in a grid

You are asked to enter letters into a grid to create correct words of as many letters as possible. 26 letter cards are on display, and every player draws one of 24 theme cards. The active player names a letter; all players enter that letter into an empty slot of their choice in their own 6x6 grid to create long, correct words horizontally as well as vertically; reading goes from left to right and top to bottom, never diagonally. As usual, you cannot use abbreviations and names and must use words in their basic form, even verbs. Several words in a row or column are possible, but cannot overlap for scoring. The same letter, however, can be part of a horizontal and vertical word. You can reject a letter by taking its card from the middle; if the letter is called a second time, you hand the card back and must enter the letter. If you want to reject a letter and the card is with another player, you take the card from him. In a turn, only one player may reject the letter; you may, however, have several letter cards at the same time.

If someone has filled all 36 slots, he scores three bonus points; the others continue to play until one player is left who then selects one final letter. Then you score correct words in columns and rows according to their length, each word only once, and score three bonus points for a word that fits your theme card. If you have letter cards laid out, they score one penalty point each.

Kross the Wordz is a nice version of familiar mechanism, the rejecting/then compulsory entering of letters is a challenging detail that makes the letter selection even more tactical.

Players: 2-5

Age: 10+

Time: 25+

Designer: Michael Feldkötter

Artist: Kreativbunker

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: moses. Verlag 2019

Web: www.moses-verlag.de

Genre: Word finding

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nice variant

Sophisticated rule details

Good vocabulary training

Compares to:

Word finding games with letter and topic parameters

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 3

Knowledge (yellow): 3

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0