Tag: Spelling

Campbell’s Alphabet Dice Game

| T3d-1978

From the can: “Warm up your evening with a satisfying, yet simple, anagram word game for the whole family to enjoy. Simply throw your dice and start to spell. When you’re stumped, everyone rolls again. This is not just another alphabet game. It’s M’m M’m GOOD!”

Kind of a cross between all the other letter/dice games and Scrabble. This clever little dice game uses terms from cooking for the gameplay. Game turns are made up of “servings” (rounds). The choice of moves when you roll your dice are: 1) Building, 2) Slurping, and 3) Passing. The last round of dice play is called “scraping the bottom”.

Game Mechanics:

  • Dice Rolling
  • Spelling

Game Specifications:

  • 2 – 6 Players
  • 15 – 30 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.25

Bananagrams

| T3d-1978

Bananagrams is a fast and fun word game that requires no pencil, paper or board, and the tiles come in a fabric banana-shaped carrying pouch. One hand can be played in as little as five minutes. Much like Pick Two!, but without the letter values.

Using a selection of 144 plastic letter tiles in the English edition, each player works independently to create their own ‘crossword’ faster than one’s opponents. When a player uses up all their letters, all players take a new tile from the pool. The object of the game is to be the first to complete a word grid after the “bunch” of tiles has been depleted.

There are variants included in the instructions, such as Banana Smoothie and Banana Cafe for limited set skills or space-deprived places, and the game is suitable for solo play.

Game Mechanics:

  • Race
  • Spelling
  • Tile Placement
  • Word Game

Game Specifications:

  • 1 – 8 Players
  • ~15 Minutes
  • Difficulty Weight 1.30