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Keesdrow -- Mensa Select® Winner(search on Board Game Geek)
- Replay Value (1-10): 9
- Fun Factor (1-10): 7
- Worth Buying (1-10): 9
In short, Scrabble-like scoring on a Boggle-like word-search. The game
starts with a 16x16 grid of letters (composed of 64 double-sided 2x2 tiles).
Players take turns finding Boggle-style words: start at a letter, and go in
any of the 8 directions to the next letter, and so on. (Unlike Boggle, players
can even stay on a letter to repeat it.) Each letter may be used no more than
three times in the entire game; this is denoted by different-colored pegs to
place on the letter. Letters have a Scrabble-like basic value and score that
much when used in a word -- double if it is the second time that letter is used
in the game; triple if it is the third time.
This game is definitely one of the rare gems that manages to take elements
from the two most popular trademarked word games and combine them into
something that actually works without coming off like a cheap ripoff. The
peg-based interface wouldn't have been my first choice (I'd probably use
color transparent tokens) but they seem servicable. I left this game
wondering about overall strategies (is there ever a good reason to play in
a completely unused region of the board? Does the game work for three
intense players or is turn order too important for a multi-player game to be
anything more than just social fun?), which is definitely a good sign.
(Yes, I know what Keesdrow means. Thanks.)
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