Game Summary
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The quest is to capture star squares and stop others from doing so — but beware the game option with a sting in the crossword tail.
- Universal Play
- Connoisseur Play
- Partner Play
- Themed Play
Designed for recreational and educational play
strategy crossword game for all ages
- Players develop their own individual crosswords
- Play options for young children to word play masterminds
- Grand master of words and a young child can be a match
- Connoisseur Play for those who like to pit their wits
- Fast Play for active minds and impatient players of all ages
- Solo Play for the ultimate single player challenge
Game Options
Universal Play
The primary option and hub for all multiplayer options. Up to four players develop their own individual crosswords, in crossword style, manoeuvring them tactically around a game board. The quest is to capture star squares and stop others from doing so. Players still develop their own crosswords but work together in the quest to capture star squares.
Connoisseur Play
The option where skill and ingenuity are a must to master the sting in the crossword tail. Play is as per Universal Play plus: Players need to consider including individually and strategically positioned letters into their crosswords, or protecting them from the advances of other players crosswords.
Solo Play
The ultimate single player challenge. The objective is to develop a single crossword that covers all the star squares on the board. The challenge is to achieve this whilst recording a minimum points score. For active minds and impatient players of all ages.
Margaret Curtis
Dorian M. Caldwell
Game Options
Best 5 Word Games for Kids
Kids love to play games. The best word games you should know to improve child’s vocabulary ,language and word ability are:
Boggle:This game has a square container with 25 cubes, each with single letter on all its six corners. This game is played by shaking the cubes to form words. Whenever these cubes are shaken a different order is formed in a container. Kids need to frame as many words possible from the set of 25 letters as seen in the container. Longer words would reward more points for this and those kids who score the highest marks would be the winner.
Quiddler:The game contains 103 cards with the letter, an image and number to represent the value of a point for letters on every card. Cards are shuffled before playing; Every player must have two cards in hand and remaining must be kept as a draw pile. This is played in a clockwise direction starting from the first player on the left who would draw a topcard from the pile and discard one during each turn until a word is formed from the cards held. The player to have all letters that can form a word would place them on the table first. Each card can be used only once, while the remaining players must continue playing taking one last turn to draw a card and finish by placing all cards to form a word. Player with the maximum points will be the winner.
Scrabble:This is a two-sided game board with 101 letter tiles and 44 scoring chips. Each player must lay two tiles for matching letters on board and draw two tiles back to the lined chips. The first player can choose to place on first two letters of the board or on first two letters of 2 separate words. Likewise other players can put one tile on the first letter of the word on board or use to place on next letter which is open and been started during the play. The game would end when all tiles are placedand for every word, the player has to pick chips so the one with highest scoring chips will be the winner.
I Spy:This can be played at home or outside using objects or as a card game. The player has to choose any object visible at a distance, let’s say a banana, then make that object and say it loud as “I spy with my little eye something starting with B” so that the kids must guess the word starting with that letter. The game ends when the child guesses the word correctly with more points.
Call My Bluff:This word game is played by dividing kids into two teams and provide a word list which they need to figure out atleast 3 definitions for the word. So the other team must guess the right meaning to win else the opponent gets the point to bluff.