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Wortissimo

Are you quick enough?

Wortissimo is a very fast letter placement and word forming game for 2 clever minds; each player wants to achieve the highest score within a maximum of 4 minutes. Each player chooses his individual time, up to 4 minutes, and takes all letter cubes of his color. Then in the first phase players alternate to put one cube into the grid, there are vowel cubes and consonant cubes. You start and stop the timer for each letter, quickly, to save time. A * on a cube is a joker, it can represent any of the letters. When the grid is complete, the remaining time starts to run for both players. They note down any word of 2, 3 and 4 letters that the can find horizontally, vertically or diagonally in a straight line on their side of the grid, direction of reading can be forward or backwards. Take care! You cannot change direction in your word. If you think that you have found all possible words you stop the timer and receive bonus points for the time that you have left.

For correct words you score 1 point per letter in the word, there are the usual rules for correct words,e.g. no names, and you receive points only once for words with a double meaning, e.g. page. But you can score words in a word like team and tea. If you score the highest total, you win.

Wortissimo is a nice game, the fun is in the placing of the cubes, I cannot use all of mine and must watch carefully what I give to my opponent – if I take the O he gets the E – maybe it’s better to place the cube the other way round? Q, X and Y, by the way, have been left out, which makes for a much better and better playable game.

Spieler         : 2

Alter            : ages 6 and up

Dauer           : ca. 4 min

Autor           : not stated

Grafik          : not stated

Titel             : ident

Preis            : ca. 19 Euro

Verlag          : Noris Spiele 2010

                     www.noris-spiele.de

Genre                    : Word forming game

Zielgruppe             : For families

Mechanismen         : Place letters, make up words

Kommentar:

2 play simultaneously

Bonus for fast play

Without the nasty letters Q, X and Y

Planning necessary when placing cubes

Vergleichbar:

Boggle, Scrabble and other games to form words

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