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- Replay Value (1-10): 6
- Fun Factor (1-10): 4
- Worth Buying (1-10): 3
Scrabble without any tiles. Instead, you may roll a die that tells you
to add 2 letters, 3 letters, draw a card, etc., and that is the constraint
on the letters you must add to the board with your wet-erase marker (which,
unfortunately, weren't writing or erasing very well). The special die
also does double-duty as a timer; after 80 seconds, it starts counting down
audibly and your time is up at 90 seconds. Hopefully, by that time,
you have written a word in the grid, and it scores very similarly to
Scrabble (one difference being that bonus squares are reused even if a
letter was already in there).
Our main problem with the game is that if you actually have a decent
vocabulary, you're almost always better off taking the option to draw a card
instead of rolling the die (if you look closely at the photograph you'll
see that we wrote "MISSISSIPPI" when asked to "Add a river", for a
reasonably number of points). This makes the die rather annoying,
as you have to "roll" it anyway to start the timer. (However, it does
have one nice advantage over a sand-timer -- you don't have to wait for
it to reset.)
Another problem I have with the game is the same one
I have with Scrabble -- players who know the permissible two-letter words
are going to be able to make high-scoring "parallel" plays that other
players can't, even worse so as you have so much flexibility in the
letters you add.
That, plus the poor quality of the components (although I have to admit
that the box is one of the sturdiest boxes I've ever seen for a board
game -- this company really knows how to do boxes) means that this
is not a winner over the classic Scrabble. But with the right amount
of fixes ... maybe.
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