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Brabble

IGHB -> NEIGHBOR

Funny letter combinations as word fragments - who has a suitable word for those fragments? 58 letters and ten special tiles are shuffled together face-down, nine stars are laid out. You place one letter each on three frames, five more letters are turned up for a display. Players are active in turn.

As active player, you either put a letter from the display on one of the frames, or activate an open special tile to insert a letter, remove a letter or swap letters on a frame - the used tile is discarded afterwards; or you doubt. If you want to place a letter, you take it from the five-letter display and add it to a frame, to the left or right of the letters already on the frame, and replenish the display to five letters. If you turn up a special tile during replenishing, they do not count as letters and remain open-faced and can be activated from now on.

If you doubt, you indicate a frame and the player active before you must name a word, which contains the doubted combination in exactly the same sequence. If he manages this, he takes a star; if not, you as the doubter take a star; the letters are removed, and you begin a new fragment with a letter from the display .If you put the seventh letter on a frame, you must name a word - if you don’t know one, you may not place the seventh letter - and take a star. Letters are again removed. You win with three stars.

Nicely varied standards - the basic mechanism is familiar; the details are nicely adapted, and the Seven-Letters-Must-Name rule ensures that there are no endless and meaningless sequences on the frames and that doubting does happen.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Jörg Domberger

Artist: Fiore GmbH

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Noris Spiele 2018

Web: www.noris-spiele.de

Genre: Word forming

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Standard mechanisms

Nicely varied

Letter mix works for English and German

Compares to:

All word forming games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 3

Knowledge (yellow): 3

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0