Spell words, flip your typewriter keys, and build combos in this new game in the Paperback series. This travel-ready game comes in a small box, and can even be stored in the included zipper bag. Acrylic tiles instead of cards mean even a bit of rain or ocean spray won't dampen your fun.
Every turn, you will spell a word with the tiles in front of you. Use all your starting tiles in the word to send a tile to your scoring stack. And at the end of each round you'll grab a shiny new tile for yourself from the offer. Since you can only take a tile from the offer after your turn, you can start spelling out your next word while the other players take their turns.
Sounds simple enough. But there's one more twist: every time you spell a word, you'll flip all the tiles in that word, revealing new letters and a completely new puzzle.
The tiles you take might have potent abilities that can be recharged by using a letter in your word to flip them back over, or you might grab tiles that help you score set collection points at the end of the game. Other tiles are bigrams that let you claim common vowels, and sometimes a tile just has a real tough letter that can score for real big points.
—description from the designer
- New evolution of word games
- Uses poker chips
- 100 double-sided letter keys
- Similar feel to Paperback and Hardback
- Building a better typewriter
- Freelance writing hustle
- Paperback
- Hardback
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- chip drafting — Uses poker chips.
- Deck Building — Similar to paperback and hardback.
- Meter management — Spell a word, you fill the meter, use the meter.
- Set Collection — Building up the different keys that you have.
- Word Building — Players use their collection of keys to spell words.
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- This one uses instead of cards and deck building, it uses poker chips.
- I really love the art. Oh my gosh, look at how precious this is.
- Whoa. Okay, sorry. These are chunky.
- I'm intrigued by the idea of having to adapt to what your opponents are playing.
- It's like a toddler puzzle. And for some reason, I'm just really struggling.
- This one was double shrink wrapped. What's happening? I don't trust it.
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Quotes (from this video)
- I'm really excited for those
- these are both nice little smaller box games
- I want to take a look at that
- pattern building and it's coming out