Word Tiles
1–8 players · 10 min · best with four
One board. Everybody at once. Six rounds.
Word games for a team
Every game here is won and lost on a word — one you spell, one you find, or one somebody else has in mind and has to get across to you. The words are the mechanism rather than the theme.
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Paper Novel
1–6 players · 15 min · best with three or four
The line you write buys the letters you write the next one with.
Bowl of Nouns
4–12 players · 20 min · best with six or eight
The same twenty-four words, three times, and worse every time.
Word Chain
1–12 players · 10 min · best with three or four
COLD to WARM in four. You have two and a half minutes.
Four Leaves
3–6 players · 20 min · best with four or five
Four words, four cards, and nobody wins alone.
Our Words
4–12 players · 20 min · best with six
One word. Say it well.
Secret Codes
1–8 players · 15 min · best with two
One board. Two keys. Nine turns.
The Steal
1–8 players · 10 min · best with four
Eighteen letters. Take them off each other.
Category Rush
2–12 players · 15 min · best with four or five
The obvious answer is worth nothing.
Nine Letters
1–12 players · 10 min · best with five, and a chancer to lose to
Nine tiles. Thirty seconds. The longest word takes it.
Common Threads
1–8 players · 10 min · best with four, and somebody who says the quiet one out loud
Everyone can see all sixteen words. Nobody can see which four go together.
Say It Once
3–8 players · 15 min · best with five or six
You all had the same good idea. That is exactly what went wrong.
The Cable
4–12 players · 20 min · best with six
Say enough. Not one word more.
Forbidden Words
4–12 players · 15 min · best with six or eight
Say what it is. Without saying any of the five words you were going to.
The Shake
1–12 players · 10 min · best with four, and one bot you resent
Everyone can see every letter. Almost nobody sees the same words.
Oddword
4–8 players · 15 min · best with six
Everyone has the same word. Except one of you — and they don't know it.
Anagram Relay
1–8 players · 12 min · best with four
Three letters to nine. Everybody carries the same baton.
Six Tries
2–8 players · 13 min · best with four
One word, six rows each, and the whole room is on the same one.
Sounds Right
3–8 players · 15 min · best with five
Five convincing answers, one of them already true.
Word Run
1–4 players · 12 min · best with three
One board, seven letters, and a number that keeps moving away.