The Wordbuilder Set (1992)

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Playtime: 5
Min. Age: 7
Number of Players:
2 - 6
ag.gameitem.publisher:
Crossbow Education
Designers:
Bob Hext
Artists:
Unknown
Mechanics:
Spelling,
Matching
Beschreibung
The Wordbuilder Set has two games for "onset and rime" [word beginnings and endings] practice.
Initial Blends SPRING
This has a deck of 64 cards, 2 each for 32 different 2-3 letter rimes (e.g. an, ack, ing, ock), and 2 dice which have a total of 12 2-letter onsets on them (e.g. br, tr, pl, st). Players are dealt 7 cards each. The dice are rolled and players try to match either of the onsets seen with one of the rimes on a card in hand, which is discarded if successful. The first player to empty their hand wins. There are two modes: taking turns and simultaneous play.
Wordbuilder
The deck has:
- 48 cards with both a word that can act as a rime (e.g. age, eat, ice, old), and 1-2 letter onset
- 8 joker cards, each with 6 different 1-2 letter onsets
- 8 YOU LOSE cards
Players are dealt 4-7 cards each, as agreed, and the dealer plays a word card from their hand. On their turn a player does one of these:
- Play a word card. If there is another word card atop the discard pile, the new card's onset must make a valid word with the previous card's rime.
- Play a joker card, such that one of its onsets makes a word with the rime on a word card atop the discard pile. Then the player may play any other card except another joker.
- Play a YOU LOSE card, which makes the next player draw two cards and skip their turn.
- Draw the top card of the deck.
To go out and win the hand, a player must play a YOU LOSE card along with their final card. Otherwise, if they play their final card, they draw the top of the deck.
The Wordbuilder Set has two games for "onset and rime" [word beginnings and endings] practice.
Initial Blends SPRING
This has a deck of 64 cards, 2 each for 32 different 2-3 letter rimes (e.g. an, ack, ing, ock), and 2 dice which have a total of 12 2-letter onsets on them (e.g. br, tr, pl, st). Players are dealt 7 cards each. The dice are rolled and players try to match either of the onsets seen with one of the rimes on a card in hand, which is discarded if successful. The first player to empty their hand wins. There are two modes: taking turns and simultaneous play.
Wordbuilder
The deck has:
- 48 cards with both a word that can act as a rime (e.g. age, eat, ice, old), and 1-2 letter onset
- 8 joker cards, each with 6 different 1-2 letter onsets
- 8 YOU LOSE cards
Players are dealt 4-7 cards each, as agreed, and the dealer plays a word card from their hand. On their turn a player does one of these:
- Play a word card. If there is another word card atop the discard pile, the new card's onset must make a valid word with the previous card's rime.
- Play a joker card, such that one of its onsets makes a word with the rime on a word card atop the discard pile. Then the player may play any other card except another joker.
- Play a YOU LOSE card, which makes the next player draw two cards and skip their turn.
- Draw the top card of the deck.
To go out and win the hand, a player must play a YOU LOSE card along with their final card. Otherwise, if they play their final card, they draw the top of the deck.
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