From the award-winning, best-selling creators of Exploding Kittens and Throw Throw Burrito, A Little Wordy is a fresh and ridiculously clever take on the genre of tile-based word-unscrambling games.
Here’s how it works: You’re each given a pile of letters. Rearrange your letters until you come up with a word. Be sneaky and choose a word that your opponent won’t easily guess.
Write it down, keep it a secret. Rescramble your tiles, pass them to your opponent. The goal is to examine your opponent’s tiles and try to figure out their word. You do this with Clue Cards. These tell you things such as: what’s the first letter, how long’s the word, or what does it rhyme with? You win by using as FEW of these clue cards as possible to figure out what word your opponent wrote down.
It’s thoughtful, strategic, highly-replayable, and built specifically for two players. It’s not a game about having the mightiest vocabulary - it’s a game about making clever choices.
The longest, most complicated word isn’t always the best choice. Sometimes, picking a smaller, common word is better because your brainiac opponent will overthink things and blaze right past it. Trying to figure out your opponent’s secret word can be both hilarious and (delightfully) maddening. A Little Wordy levels the playing field against veteran word wizards.
-description from publisher
- Elements came together fairly nicely
- New powers for a unique experience
- Skeptical at first based on the box cover and when I heard the name
- deduction
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Deduction — word-based deduction game
- Resource Management — using as few resources as possible. These resources are used to trigger different cards
- Word Game — tiles of different letters, you're creating a word, and you create a target word that your opponent is trying to figure out
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- Overall, not only does this game have gorgeous presentation, but it has a lot of elements of chunkier Euro style games that fit together very smoothly and I found that it is a fairly easy teach and play with a lot of complexity in the decisions that you make from turn to turn.
- Really, really love this one.
- If you have a chance to check out Orléans you're a fan of Eurogames, definitely don't sleep on this one.
- I'll definitely want to play it with more than two players before I give more thoughts on it, but I have to say that I'm very tempted, and this is rare for me, but I'm very tempted to just pay MSRP for this one so I can get it as soon as possible and try it with three, four, five because the two-player game was very interactive, very puzzly, and also didn't outstay its welcome as I found some trick-taking games with multiple rounds tend to do.
- So, although I'm very glad that I got to try it, this isn't necessarily one that I'm looking to add to my collection personally.
- So, there you have it. That is seven mini reviews of some new games that I got to try last month.
- Hopefully, these first looks can give you some ideas about whether or not these games are for you.