Scrabble Overturn
(1989)
Who is this game suitable for?
Suitable for ages 8 and up. You can play with 2 to 4 players.
For the pros among you, the following mechanics can be decisive: Tile Placement...
Game Data
| Average time to play: | 45 |
| Minimum age: | 8 |
| Number of players: | 2 - 4 |
| Publisher: | Coleco Industries, Inc., Mattel, Inc. |
| Designers: | (Uncredited) |
| Artists: | Unknown |
| Mechanics: | Tile Placement |
Fundamentally, Scrabble Overturn is a scoring variant on Scrabble (q.v.)
The board is a simple grid, into which one places "letter cylinders" which depict a given letter in four colors. If a player employs existing cylinders in making a word, those cylinders are rotated to show the active player's color.
Words are scored as played if they score a minimum of 12 points (otherwise zero points) with a bonus for playing all seven cylinders in one turn. A final end-game score is added to individual player scores, but only for words that are all of one color. Multi-color words may be broken down into segments and scored if they are also valid words.
Last Updated: 2025-08-12 17:08:41 UTC
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