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Journalist

FROM THE HOTEL TO THE EDITOR

You are a journalist and need to hand in your copy by placing words on the city map to connect editorial office and hotel. You choose a size of board to use, draw seven face-down letters and play in rounds: You start the timer, turn up your letters and all simultaneously form words from their letters and place them on their own board, while the timer runs. You place words horizontally and vertically; the first letter must cover the hotel spot; one letter of a new word must border a letter of a word already placed; adjacent letters must always form valid words and no letter can be placed on a water spot. For valid words the rules known from Scrabble and similar games apply; but you can agree on your own rules for valid words. If you cover special spots you can score bonuses or penalty points. In the Café you gain a letter cube which you can use as you like. When the timer has run out, you score one point for each letter that you placed, add bonuses and deduct penalties, score 5 points when you used all letters, and 10 points when you end the game by connecting hotel and editorial office. At the end of the round you fill your stock of letters to seven again.

A very beautiful game with loving details like a scoring track made out to look like the keyboard of an old typing machine; and of course, it is a version of scrabble, but the background story is creative, the variable plan size and the many special spots result in an interesting games for fans of word placement games; you can also design your own boards with the many tiles provided. Gaps in the rules you must fill drawing on your gaming expertise.

Players: 2-5

Age: 8+

Time: 60+

Designer: František Čermák

Artist: Nika Balyklová

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Stragoo / CBG 2012

Web: www.stragoo.com

Genre: Word placement

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: cz de en sk

In-game text: no

Comments:

Good components

Standard mechanisms, interestingly varied

Box says 2-8 players, boards are included for five players

Compares to:

Scrabble and other word placement games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 3

Knowledge (yellow): 2

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0