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- Replay Value (1-10): 7
- Fun Factor (1-10): 6
- Worth Buying (1-10): 3
There isn't that much difference between this game and Double Quick from a few years past. Everyone starts with 10 letter tiles, and tries to form a criss-cross word grid (Scrabble-style) with them. Once one player has succeeded, they call out "Pick Two!" at which point all players must draw two more tiles and incorporate them into their crisscross, rearranging as necessary. Once another (or the same) player has managed to fit all 12 tiles, they call out "Pick Two!" and two more tiles are drawn by each player. When all the tiles are gone, the first person to complete their crisscross wins -- all other players lose points based on their unused tiles.
The rules to this game are simple enough that there's really only so much a manufacturer can do to ease the gameplay: make sure the letter distribution is good (not bad in this instance, although it did seem like I was getting all the Q's) and make sure that the tiles are easy to manipulate -- being able to slide around easily yet not accidentally. In that respect, the thin plastic tiles, proportioned like little credit cards and just about as thick, weren't that ideal, especially since we kept running out of vertical space.
There are also problems that aren't really fixable, such as the fact that a player who is good at this skill is pretty much going to always win and no real amount of handicapping is going to make the game close -- and that there's no way to really make the letters that everyone gets fair. Overall, it should be pretty clear from this description whether your group is going to like this game or not.
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