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Word on the Street

Lettered MEDIAN

A game on words and letters, you must conquer 8 letters to win the game. Conquer? To conquer a letter means you need to pull the letter off the road. Road? A board styled like a road with a median, with two lanes in both directions, is divided into 17 rows. In each of these rows in the median spot you place 17 letter tiles – consonants only with J, Q, X and Z missing – in alphabetical order from top to bottom.

You play in two teams and choose one side of the category cards to be used in each of your games. One team draws a card and reads out loud the valid category for the round, at the same time the other team starts the timer. The active team looks for a word fitting the category while the timer runs and for each letter in the chosen word the corresponding tile is moved one step to the side of the active team. If it is moved off the board the team has conquered the letter. If a team manages to find a correct word with three letters of the same kind the letter is conquered with one word. When the first letter has been moved the active team can no longer change its word. Conquered letters can be used as usual, but cannot be moved any more. The opposing team can try to distract the active team and suggest words, even if they do not fit, but can only veto words that are really incorrect.

Word on the Street is one of the most attractive word games of the last years, as all letters can be used anytime, even if the do not result in moving a letter, the mechanism of conquering letters to win the game is a marvelous mechanism. All you need to do is remember lots of words with 3 identical letters!

Players         : 2-10

Age             : 12+

Duration       : 30+

Designer      : Jack Degnan

Artist           : John Kovalic, Cathleen Quinn-Kinney

Price            : ca. 30 Euro

Publisher      : Out of the Box 2009

Web             : www.otb-games.com

Genre          : Word association game

Users           : For families

Special         : Many players

Version        : en

Rules           : en

In-game text : yes

Comments:

Simple rules * very attractive mechanism * all letters always available

Compares to:

All association games looking for words in given categories

Other editions:

Currently none

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