Word Board Games
If you have kids who struggle with spelling then family board games involving words may be the answer. Games that incorporate spelling and vocabulary into their play help make learning fun for your kids and can also help them improve their marks in these subjects at school. Here are just a few that you may be interested in…
SCRABBLE
Take the challenge of making the best use of 7 letter tiles for just the right combination of wordplay, competition and fun. The Scrabble game draws family and friends around the board with the fun of building interlocking words and the competition for racking up big scores!
Connect the classic wood letter tiles up, down and across the board to create distinct crosswords every game. Whether you play traditional rules or the rules for shorter gameplay, there's a new challenge every time you play.
QUICKWORD
Players of Quickword particiapte in every turn in a race to complete their scorecard first. To complete the scorecard, players must cross of each colored box by winning a word game of that category.
In a turn a player throws the die and moves the token around the board to select the game category to be played by all players. Quickword contains four different categories, each represented by a different color card. Blue cards are a straight race against the 90-second timer as players write down as many words as they can within the chosen subject, and only unique answers score. Green cards give six topics and players score points for unique answers beginning with the letter determined by the spinner. Pink cards require players to come up with as many words as possible that start with the letter indicated by the spinner and contain the two or more letters shown on the card. Finally, gray cards include several variations and degrees of difficulty.
Quickword is a fast and competitive word game that offers a variety of different challenges, requires a little luck, involves strategy and locks players in verbal combat. Quickword modestly describes itself as The Ultimate Word Game. If it isn't, it's very close.
WORDSEARCH
In Wordsearch every player gets to see — and use — all the letters that are on the game board. So everyone has the same word-making opportunities and the same word-making fun.
On your turn search the board letters that can be made into a word. As long as you can slide a tile without another one in its path — it's good! Once you connect them add up your points. The longer the word — the more points you score.
With every move the board changes — creating new possibilities and new challenges.
