My Word (1938)
1 - 4 persone
0 - 0 min
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Descrizione: My Word comes with a board portraying a horse race track, with five circled stations labeled 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7-Finish. There is a metal horse token for each of the four lanes. The card deck has 67 letter cards, 2 jokers, 2 picture cards and 1 number card.
The main game has each player start with their token at the start and a 2-card hand. During each turn, they draw a card, and try to spell either one word or two intersecting words using as many letters as their next circle. For example, to get to the first circle (3), they could spell a 3-letter word or two 2-letter words that share a letter (e.g. IF and IT). If they succeed at either one they advance their token to the next circle; if they spell one word of that length they can take another turn.
Words can be re-used in later turns, and plurals with S are acceptable. Circles on the track cannot be skipped. Picture and number cards have instructions for spelling a word (e.g. "Spell any number from one to ten") which allow advancement to the next circle. Jokers can stand for any letter, but must be discarded at the end of the turn.
The first player to reach Finish gets 10 points; second place gets 5. The player with the highest score after and agreed-on number of races is the winner.
There are also rules for two other games:
Lexigrams -- Very similar to Kan-U-Go or Crossword Lexicon: players use turns to add words to a growing shared crossword. When one player plays their last card, the others add the points on their remaining cards to their total. Once one player has a total of 100 or more, the player with the lowest score wins the game.
Word Solitaire -- Eight cards are dealt out, each being the start of a column. The player repeatedly turns up the next card of the deck and adds it to a column so as to spell a word fragment or a complete word. Once a word is complete it can either be extended, or the last letter can be considered the first letter of another word. If a letter cannot be added to make a valid word or word fragment in any column, the player must lay it face down at the end of one of the columns, closing that column for the rest of the game. Once all columns are closed, the number of face-up cards played is the player's score.
—user summary
The main game has each player start with their token at the start and a 2-card hand. During each turn, they draw a card, and try to spell either one word or two intersecting words using as many letters as their next circle. For example, to get to the first circle (3), they could spell a 3-letter word or two 2-letter words that share a letter (e.g. IF and IT). If they succeed at either one they advance their token to the next circle; if they spell one word of that length they can take another turn.
Words can be re-used in later turns, and plurals with S are acceptable. Circles on the track cannot be skipped. Picture and number cards have instructions for spelling a word (e.g. "Spell any number from one to ten") which allow advancement to the next circle. Jokers can stand for any letter, but must be discarded at the end of the turn.
The first player to reach Finish gets 10 points; second place gets 5. The player with the highest score after and agreed-on number of races is the winner.
There are also rules for two other games:
Lexigrams -- Very similar to Kan-U-Go or Crossword Lexicon: players use turns to add words to a growing shared crossword. When one player plays their last card, the others add the points on their remaining cards to their total. Once one player has a total of 100 or more, the player with the lowest score wins the game.
Word Solitaire -- Eight cards are dealt out, each being the start of a column. The player repeatedly turns up the next card of the deck and adds it to a column so as to spell a word fragment or a complete word. Once a word is complete it can either be extended, or the last letter can be considered the first letter of another word. If a letter cannot be added to make a valid word or word fragment in any column, the player must lay it face down at the end of one of the columns, closing that column for the rest of the game. Once all columns are closed, the number of face-up cards played is the player's score.
—user summary