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For those who like word games but don't enjoy the formality of scrabble. Great game.
Games are shorter with this suggestion, and more fun. Banagrams is an excellent game for 2 to 6 people, ages about 11 up, for all ages above.Good variation not in insturctions: With only 2-4 players, set up two piles, one for dumping and the other for peeling. To go through all of the tiles is too tedious and frustrating.
As soon as one player succeeds, she calls "peel," at which time every player has to take a another letter tile. Bananagrams is a word game that uses letter tiles - 144 unusally finger-friendly, bakelite letter tiles. If you succeed, you draw more. We love that one hand can be played in as little as five minutes, but as it's so addictive, it's often hard to put away."If you like playing with words, it's very likely that you'll be taking a banana-case full of Bananagrams with you everywhere.
We're working on variations for teams, and maybe even cooperative versions.The Nathanson family, Bannanagram designers, comment: "Obsessed by all the word games that could be found, we all hankered after something a bit more fluid than the classics we all love and wanted a game that the family could play together - ALL ages at the same time. We sought something portable, that we could take with us on our various travels and simple enough (with no superfluous pieces or packaging) that we could play in restaurants while waiting for our food. Read, for example, Lance Hampton's exemplary story of how he plays Bananagrams with his kids. Because the game is so simple to explain, it is also simple to change - to adapt to different skill levels, different environments and time constraints.
The full rules are a bit more complex. Naturally, the first player to have used all her tiles shouts "bananas" (if she still has the presence of mind to remember), and wins the game.Everything about Bananagrams is Major FUN, the quality of the tiles, the portability and storability, the adaptability and flexibility. It will remind you of other letter-tile word games, many other letter-tile word games, until you actually read the rules (which are simple enough to summarize on the 1x2-inch tag that is attached to the banana-like zippable package).Basically, you draw a bunch of tiles and try to assemble all of them into a crossword array. And so it goes, on and on, until almost all the letter tiles are used up.
They race to assemble all their letters into a crossword. That's about it, basically-wise. Players all get the same number of letter tiles, the exact number depending on the how many are playing.
I would recommend it to others. One of my coworker recommended this game. I ordered it and had a fun time playing it with my husband.
They have a weight and texture about them that brings back memories of when I used to "rattle the bones" as a kid. I agree with everyone else that it's fun to play and simple enough for a child to play with adults, but what I like most are the real urea game pieces.
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