TREVOR's Recommendations
For your next party, family gathering, or just any time:
WORD GAMES
Apples to Apples — A terrific specialty card game for anyone and everyone. It's great for children, teens, adults, and elders. In fact, it's a wonderful intergenerational game: old folks can play with young folks, teens can play with adults, they can even all play together... that's how versatile this game is. Basically it's a word game that you don't really have to know what the words mean because they tell you. Absolutely no skills are required except reading. And the more people play, the funnier it gets! This game is causing a sensation at parties and living rooms everywhere. It's a blast!
grade: A+
Quiddler — This fabulous game is basically gin rummy with words. The specialty card deck has a letter (or two) on each card, and you can't go out until you can spell words with all of the cards in your hand. Plus, each succeding hand, you have one more card than the hand before, so longer and longer words become a possibility. Plus there's a 10 point bonus for whoever makes the longest word and another for whoever writes the most words each hand. My wife always wins this game.
grade: A+
Boggle — This is a timed, competitive word search game with dice. It's easy to play. Spelling is the only real skill involved. The bigger your vocabulary, the better your chances. Great for older elementary school students to adults.
grade: A
Anagram — A rather difficult, highly competitive, add-a-letter word stealing game. Not for the faint of heart. To anagram a word is to take all the letters in it and spell a different word. For instance: NOTES, TONES, STONE, & STENO are all anagrams of each other. NOTES + R = NOTERS, TONERS, STONERS, STERNO, & TENORS. This is a game for those who absolutely love to play with letters. Most Scrabble fans love Anagram, too.
grade: A
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