It has a lot of similarities to Scrabble. She was the one that introduced me to it. UPWORDS – UPWORDS was one of my wife’s favourite word games growing up. Of course, I only recommend using this against AI opponents or players who agree to its use ahead of time. For example, if you enter in DRME, it will identify the word “Derm,” as well as other three letter and two letter words. Now to help with this frustration, there are tools out there like Unscrambled Words, which can help you unscramble letters and find you words you would never come up with on your own. My only real beef with Scrabble is playing against people (or AI opponents digitally) that have the entire Scrabble Dictionary memorized and like to use all those two letter words that I’ve never heard of for maximum scoring potential. Scrabble has always been and still is a very solid game. Unlike many older popular games, this one hasn’t been broken by things like families passing down house rules for generations. There are some great mass market word games! Word games seem to have much more universal appeal than many other types of games and seem to have more market penetration.īelow I’m going to list some of what I think are the best word-based games out there, starting with some classic favourites you should be able to find almost anywhere. This seems to be especially true of Word games. Similarly just because I can pick up a game at Walmart, Target or even my closest Shoppers Drug Mart, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a bad game. Just because a game isn’t sold in mass market stores, is from a famous game designer, features that game designer’s name on the cover, and is considered a hobby board game, that doesn’t mean it’s actually a better game. I think this is an important thing to note for the hobby overall, not just for word games. This seems to be especially true as far as word games are concerned. I just want to point out that there’s nothing wrong with many of the mass market games that are out there. There is enough variety out there that I’m pretty sure they cover all the game types Brian mentions above word spelling, word guessing and word-defining games.Ī slight diversion to talk about mass market vs.
While there may not be a ton of word games out there and they are often overshadowed by the latest miniature game or some hot new deck builder or civilization game, there are plenty of great hobby word games to be had. There are plenty of mass market word games, like Scrabble, but there are also a significant number of hobby or designer board games that use words as a major part of their gameplay.
There are some great word-based games (and don’t discredit mass market games).īrian should be pleased to know that I think that word games definitely count as a category.
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