Wörterklauer (1975)

Whenever we see a game about crossed words formed by letter tiles, we tend to think, "Scrabble". Wörterklauer has almost nothing in common with that ubiquitous game, other than the fact that you cross words orthogonally with letter tiles. The board has no special spaces because there is no score to tally. In fact, all the spaces are designed to facilitate flipping the tiles over....

Wörterklauer works like this: On your turn, you form as many words as you can, then leave the board for your opponent to try to convert letters and words. Any word whose root she can alter by appending to it or changing one letter, any letter she uses in her word, and any crossed words tweaked (you're allowed to change one extra letter in one of the two crossed words), convert to her color by flipping over. If you can't end your turn with more letters in your color than in your opponent's, you lose the game, simple as that.

Revised version of:

• Iago (the games appear to be extremely similar but not identical)

Editions

	Year	Publisher	Title	Language
	1975	Ravensburger	Kruiswoord-spel Wörterklauer	Dutch German
		Ravensburger	ruba parole motamot	Italian French
	1976	Hallmark Games	Vice Versa	English
	1978	Ravensburger	Wörterklauer: Nimmst du mein Wort, klau ich dein Wort! (You take my word, I steal your word!)	German