Word

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.

“Word Madness” combines two well-known concepts, a word game and “Go Fish,” but it isn’t unique enough to deserve a recommendation.

Over the years many word games have come and gone. Some of the games have been hits while others have been failures. Nab-It tries to bring something new to the genre by increasing the competitiveness between players as players try to steal words from one another. Nab-It ends up being a pretty average word game.

Plext is the game of few words. The object of Plext is to use all 14 letter dice in the fewest words as possible. While I wouldn’t consider myself to be a big fan of word games, I did have some fun playing Plext.

Dizzy Spell is a game that tries to combine the mechanics of a word game with a memory game. Unfortunately neither mechanic really pays off.