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Word Games by Mechanic - Metalist
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This is a Metalist of my recent 7 geeklists indexing/categorizing word-games, mostly letter-by-letter games. I've also included links that helpful Geeks sent my way. Thanks to GamesGrandpa for the encouragement for both the lists and the idea to make a Metalist. If you know of any other Word Games lists, please leave a comment and I'll add it to the list!
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Posted Thu Sep 1, 2005 8:04 pm
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Board Game: Boggle
[Average Rating:6.20 Overall Rank:1170]
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Letter Based Word Games by Mechanic - List #2 - Simple Word Formation
Which games require players to form words from their own pool of letters, without requiring them to play off of another player's work or worry about board positioning?
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listi...
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Letter Based Word Games by Mechanic - List #3 - Complex Word Formation
Which games require players to form words incorporating already played letters? Are there other games where you play off of previously played letters, but that DON'T involve cross-word style play?
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listi...
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Board Game: Jarnac
[Average Rating:7.11 Overall Rank:2449]
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Letter Based Word Games by Mechanic - List #5 - Rearranging
In which games do players score primarily by rearranging letters into more valuable words? These games may involve word-formation to begin with, but the real points involve rearranging existing letters.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listi...
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Letter-by-Letter Word Games FAQ
When I started trying to categorize word Games, Steffan dropped me a note. Check out this AWESOME database of Word Games!
"Originally Compiled by Steffan O'Sullivan and now maintained by Graham Toal.
"This is an attempt to list the letter-by-letter word games that have been published -- called 'letter-by-letter games', or 'word-building games', to distinguish them from word games which use whole words, phrases, sentences, etc. Examples of the latter include Taboo, Guestures, Trivial Pursuit, and Charades; all of which can be considered 'word games', but are outside the scope of this list. Instead, this list focuses on games in which the basic element is a letter, and words are built up from there."
http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/
Edited: Removed "last updated" quote which Graham explains below...
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More Word Games from Graham Toal
This appears to be a different format of the above database, though I haven't had time to explore it. Have fun!
"I haven't updated the main board game page much in the last couple of years as I've been concentrating on the software side, however I *have* been bookmarking new games that I found and I'll eventually do one big update.
Meanwhile, here's something to whet your appetites:"
http://www.gtoal.com/gallery/wordgames
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Word Association Mechanics by David Meredith
David Meredith has given some thought to the mechanics behind word-based word games. This is more detailed than my own "Word Based Word Games" list (#6), which I created before I knew his existed. Here is David's description of his list...
"This is merely a list of methods used to 'pass' a word to your partner in Word Association games with an example of each mechanic.
Word association games are party games. Though trivia games could be considered word association, I stick to the games that require a player to give clues in some manner in order to induce a partner to guess a given word."
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listi...
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Posted Mon Aug 1, 2005 3:11 am
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