QUIDDLER - a SCRABBLE player's dream come true!
Donald Sauter
with a letter on each one, and you form words using the cards in your
hand. Each letter is assigned a point value.
There's a series of rounds starting with a 3-card deal going up to a
10-card deal. On your turn you draw a card from the deck and discard
one from your hand, rummy style.
When a player can play all the cards in his hand, he may lay them down
to show his word(s). Then everyone gets another turn to play the word
(s) he can from his own hand.
BUT . . . here's the great news: they've outdone Scrabble, even, by
explicitly allowing ONE-LETTER WORDS!!! Check your dictionary and you
will find all 26 of them! (If that's too much work, ask the nearest
kindergartner to say his ABCs.)
No longer any need to even remember those funny, little two- and three-
letter words that nobody's ever used in his life, but fill up
tournament Scrabble boards everywhere!
And, get this! - there's a 10-point bonus for making the *most* words
from the cards in your hand. So, until your opponents catch on and
memorize all 26 one-letter words for themselves, you will be sitting
in the driver's seat! When your turn comes, just plop down all the
cards in your hand, add up the points, take the 10-point bonus, and
sit back and SMILE!
Word game POINTS without anagramming - a Scrabble player's dream come
true!
Donald Sauter
www.donaldsauter.com/goo-goo-scrabble.htm
sgt pepper
If you like scrabble your would love a game called banana grams, its a
way fun game. check it out
Donald Sauter
>
> If you like scrabble your would love a game called banana grams, its a
>
Thanks, Sgt. Pepper. Yes, I've played Banagrams a few times and have
enjoyed it. Some members of my Scrabble club introduced me to it.
We've played it with a scoop of regular Scrabble tiles.
Now I think you should check out my Beatle pages.
Donald Sauter
www.donaldsauter.com/index.html#beatles
Rick Jones
> I just played a new word game called Quiddler. It has a deck of cards
> with a letter on each one, and you form words using the cards in your
> hand. Each letter is assigned a point value.
It's been around since 1998, so it's hardly a new game. New to you
perhaps. Popular among Mensans and was a Mind Games winner in 1999.
--
Rick Jones
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sgt pepper
haha holy, i love the Beatles. Did you put that up all by yourself?
awesome web page. love the trivia questions. Whats your favorite
album?
Rick Pikul
> BUT . . . here's the great news: they've outdone Scrabble, even, by
> explicitly allowing ONE-LETTER WORDS!!! Check your dictionary and you
> will find all 26 of them! (If that's too much work, ask the nearest
> kindergartner to say his ABCs.)
Two problems with that:
I checked, and it does have two letters as a minimum. Even then, it
disallows proper nouns, (such as, say, the names of the letters of the
alphabet).
--
Chakat Firepaw - Inventor & Scientist (Mad)
DJ Hastings
This is a technicality, but it's actually a two *card* minimum. There
are some cards with multiple letters (like "IN"), but you aren't allowed
to use them as words on their own.
Rick Pikul
> Rick Pikul wrote:
>> I checked, and it does have two letters as a minimum. Even then, it
>> disallows proper nouns, (such as, say, the names of the letters of the
>> alphabet).
>>
>
> This is a technicality, but it's actually a two *card* minimum. There
> are some cards with multiple letters (like "IN"), but you aren't allowed
> to use them as words on their own.
The copy of the rules I found did say letter, more digging makes it look
like a change was made at some point.
DJ Hastings
Interesting. Does the version your rules came from have cards with
multiple letters?
Rick Pikul
> Rick Pikul wrote:
As I recall, yes.