Interesting... This appears to be a deduction game much like Mastermind or Zendo with letters using a pad & pencil as its only components... and we have a 5 hour car trip coming up next month.

Thanks Lyman

Jotto (we'd always spelled it "Giotto") is a fantastic game. My friends and I would play it on long subway rides. Needless to say the game was much more difficult on our way home from the bar...

I highly recommend this one...my family is also addicted to Jotto and it is usually one of the first games my teen-age daughter wants to play when I suggest a game. The other word game she loves is WordSense. It is cheap & fun; and a great contrast to Jotto (a quiet game) because WordSense is fast, furious, and can get raucus - never nasty, though.

The compactness of this game is really sweet, and I must also recommend the Travel edition of Play-on-Wordz for that reason.

One of our favorite word games. We have played it dozens of times and it does not get old. Plus it scales well from 2 to 4 players. You can't go wrong with this game.

This game really shines with a one minute timer. Without it, it's rather pedestrian. With it, it's a brutal push your luck game. If you don't push your luck, the next player will probably outscore you. Good mix of risk, word skill and lots of fun. And like all good word games, tense as hell with a one minue timer.

I really enjoy Bali. There's the potential for a screwage factor that doesn't exist in a lot of word games. You have to think about combinations of letters that can be used in words. As you're working toward a certain good word, someone can come along and take your letters. It plays well as solitaire. I think that's a plus.

Just played this for the first time. I love it. If you like word games you will love this. It's a fairly quick game (at least with two players). We played with the main rules (my wife and I). Knowing when to buy letters is key. The round before, I sold a word for 196 and the next round I drew a lot of five letters that would have cost me 169. I passed as the mix of letters wouldn't have scored me enough cash and I would have wasted my big word from the previous turn. My plan is to make sure I have a Scrabble dictionary to go with it, for challenges. If you are really good, you can form up to 14 letter words. I plan on playing this game alot.

I played Palabra for the first time at GAMA with the game designer and loved it. I am a Scrabble fan and this is something I can get other gamers to play easier than Scrabble.

That story... is awesome ;-)