Word

My Word is a very solid card game that fails to bring anything new or original to the word card game genre.

Catchword is an interesting combination of word, card, and dice games but there are far too many poor rules to warrant a recommendation.

Through the Clues has an interesting twist on the word game genre but unfortunately fails to live up to its’ potential.

While not much different than the original Scattergories, the Scattergories Card Game is still an enjoyable experience.

In the 1930’s through the 1950’s a radio show by the name of Fibber McGee and Molly ruled the airwaves. In 1940 Milton Bradley tried to make a board game based on the comedy. While the “Mad Lib” story mechanic can provide some laughs, the game is otherwise sorely lacking.

Do you remember from school when you had to make those poems where you took a word and then had to come up with a word that started with each letter of the original word? Well as it turns out those are called acrostics and they just so happen to the basis behind the game Across Ticklers. Across Ticklers has an interesting gameplay mechanic but there is little else to the game.

Are you a fan of the game Mad Gab? Has Mad Gab gotten too easy for you? If you can answer yes to both questions, Babble On may be for you. Otherwise it is best to avoid the game.

Name a color that starts with the letter Z. Be quick on your feet in order to grab the card before one of your competitors. This is a gist of what you can expect from the 2009 University Games game ASAP. ASAP is a quick to learn and play game that packs some fun into an all too familiar package.

“Hippie Daniel Boone secretly poisoned the office fatty.” This is just one of the wacky sentences created during the game of You’ve Been Sentenced that I recently played. You’ve Been Sentenced is not what you would call a serious word game. While it is not fantastic, You’ve Been Sentenced is probably one of the better word games that I have played.

Scrabble Upwords (or Upwords as it was originally called) is a game where you try to build words with tiles. Unlike Scrabble though you are able to build words by stacking tiles on top of tiles already on the board. While Scrabble Upwords is not a fantastic game, I think it is a very solid word game.