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Boxxy

No TIME FOR BIG WORDS!

The closed box holds 7 letter dice and a fixed sand-timer in one corner. The box is shaken and while the timer runs players can use the time to form words out of the letters that are visible on the top of the dice. These well-known standard mechanisms have been varied very attractively: A letter can be used several times in a word, the letters must not be next to each other in the box to be next to each other in the word, and a letter that is present twice can be used as a joker once. A valid word must consist of a minimum of 3 letters, abbreviations, foreign words and proper nouns are not allowed. When the timer has run down, you score your words: If you alone have found the word it scores 5 points, shared words score 2 points and each letter in a word counts 1 point additionally. If you manage to make up a word from all 7 letters, you score 25 points.

The variants are a very nice feature of the game. In the game for categories players jointly chose a category, the letters must fit this category. In the version Categories / Each Letter one Word you must use each letter for the first letter in a word fitting the category. Each correct word scores 5 points if you have it alone, shared words score 1 point. In the version Auf ein Wort each player may write down only one word of 4 letters minimum, the longer the better, each letter scores 1 point, additional non-present letters are allowed, but 2 points are deducted for each such letter. After a preset number of rounds the player with the highest score wins.

Boxxy is a felicitous example how to vary a well-known game concept.

Spieler         : 2-4

Alter            : ages 10 and up

Dauer           : ca. 20 min

Autor           : nicht genannt

Grafik          : nicht genannt

Titel englisch          : -

Preis            : ca. 15,00

Verlag          : Schmidt Spiele 2010

www.schmidtspiele.de

Genre                    : Word and association game

Zielgruppe             : For families

Mechanismen         : Form words from given letters

Kommentar:

Well-known basic mechanism

Interesting variants

Different way to use the letters

Double letters used for jokers

Doppelbuchstaben als Joker

Vergleichbar:

Boggle

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