Players of all ages make three-letter words by rolling dice. As an abstract strategy game, two to four players attempt to control sufficient territory to score points by flipping tiles to align arrows to the player. Aligning enough adjacent arrows towards a player causes the player to advance one point on the built-in scoring track.
LASERCUT COMPONENTS:
• 6×6 game board for up to four players with …
• 4 integrated scoring tracks and score markers
• 80 bigram (2-letter) tiles
• 25 A-Z tiles (except ”Q”)
• Two dice.
SETUP:
1.Place 36 random bigram tiles face up in the grid.
2.Reset the score board markers to 0.
3.Flip all the A-Z tiles face up within reach of all players.
4.Agree upon a target score for winning the game.
GAME PLAY:
On each turn, a player will…
• Roll both dice
• Make a three-letter word using one of the bigrams
tiles located at the junction of the two numbers rolled.
See example below.
• To make a word, combine an available A-Z letter tile
at the start or end of the bigram tile.
• Grab the A-Z letter tile and call out the word made.
• Flip the bigram tile and align the arrow towards the
player.
• Place the A-Z tile upside down in the discard pile.
• Check to see if territory was obtained to score a point.
MAKING A WORD:
Combine an A-Z tile with a bigram tile in any order:
SCORING:
• Align three or four adjacent arrows to score one point.
• Replace the tiles used with new random A-Z tiles
Player 4 rolled 5 and 6. With the available letters, player four chooses to call out SEE and flips the (EE) tile and aligns the arrow.
STRATEGIES:
• Don’t always flip a tile to point to yourself. Thwart your opponent with a potential block.
NOTES:
• When a dice roll results in no bigrams available, you may ROTATE any one of the tiles matching the dice roll to point to yourself.
• Rolling doubles allows you one extra turn or allows you to flip back an opponent’s tile to show its bigram.
• When there are less than five A-Z tiles remaining, you may restore all A-Z tiles.
• Once all A-Z tiles have been used (flipped over), flipped them all face up to put back into play.
I have to admit the game is very confusing at first, but once you catch on it is pretty easy. I would say the game is recommended for children ages six and up depending on their skill level and where they are in their learning. With the help of mom and dad or an older sibling children younger than six should bea ble to play too. My daughter is eight 1/2 and we feel that WORD TAC TOE Abstract Dice Word Game is really helping her spelling.
This holiday season why not give the gift of a family word game.
Looks like a fun game. I love scrabble, so I would like this.