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Word Game Suggestions Solicited
Lyman Hurd
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I was intrigued by the game WordSense and wondered what people's opinions of it might be and also what other great classics I may be missing. I love wordgames (although my true vocation is abstracts; I consider go to lie at the pinnacle of games) however for purposes of this list I am trying to find candidate games my wife would enjoy. All comments welcome.
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1. Jotto [Average Rating:6.53 Overall Rank:2407]
Lyman Hurd
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 One of my wife's favorites and a good game to play on car trips. My daughter has also become addicted.
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Jody Ludwick
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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:)
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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...
2. Scrabble [Average Rating:6.54 Overall Rank:560]
Lyman Hurd
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 The classic. We actually don't play this all that often. To be honest I find trying to come up with words from the limited subset of letters available at one time somewhat constraining (I am only speaking for myself here).
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3. WordSense [Average Rating:5.50 Unranked]
Lyman Hurd
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 This game is on my current wish list (probably as a present) and inspired this list. It occured to me that slogging through all the "word" related games in the database would be pretty onerous, and so I thought I'd open the floor for comments and suggestions.
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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 Michelangelo of Misanthropy
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The compactness of this game is really sweet, and I must also recommend the Travel edition of Play-on-Wordz for that reason.
4. Perquackey [Average Rating:6.11 Overall Rank:2449]
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Perquackey is my favorite word game. Played by the rules there is down time while someone takes their turn, but we usually can't keep quiet when someone gets stuck or we see a particularly good word. This is harder than Boggle, which I also like, and not as boring as Scrabble.
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5. Word Thief [Average Rating:6.25 Overall Rank:2344]
Mary Weisbeck
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Word Thief is a fun word game with a bit of nasty thrown in as you steal words from other players.
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Dean Rekich
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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.
6. Big Boggle [Average Rating:7.04 Overall Rank:514]
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The other classic, after Scrabble.
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7. Quizzle [Average Rating:6.86 Unranked]
Bill Allen
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 Try this one ... sort of a 'make up your own crossword' using letters selected communally (as in everyone take a "q") and only score for real words.
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8. Word Rich [Average Rating:6.93 Unranked]
Dean Rekich
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 Another game by the makers of Word Thief. Not quite as good as Word Thief, but still a very good word game. It brings an element of gambling and "pushing your luck" to a word game.
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richard glanzer
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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.