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Alfabet Spel
A different kind of word game
The designer himself presented this game to me in Essen - Alfabet, a word or letter placement game with has its roots in Scrabble and other games based on the principle of crossword puzzles.
Each player has his own set of 42 letters and 6 jokers; those 48 tiles have the same backside color! In a two-player game each player uses two sets of tiles! On the front side 16 letters and 2 jokers are white on black, 15 letters and 2 jokers are white on red and 11 letters and 2 jokers are red on white. Each player puts his letters down face-.down, draws 7 letters for his first hand and displays them openly. Then in turn you place one word in the manner of crossword puzzles; the first player has absolutely free choice of where to position his first word. After placing a word you draw or maybe discard letters; how many letters you may draw or might have to discard depends on the word you placed: Each letter on a red background placed on a red spot on the board gives you one letter from your stock, each letter on red or white placed on a black spot or each letter on black placed on a red spot costs you one letter from your hand.
The number of letters in your hand can never go below four; if necessary you draw letters after discarding letters. You win when you manage to place all letters or - when nobody can place words anymore - with the fewest letters in total in your hand and your personal stock.
Alfabet is an elegant little game in classy design, and a real tidbit for all fans of word and letter placement games; the Dutch rules are quickly translated and the letter division is compatible with German.
Players: 2-4
Age: 8+
Time: 30+
Designer: Fred Horn
Art: not named
Price: ca. 12 Euro
Web: www.novacarta.nl
Genre: Word placement game
Users: With friends
Version: nl
Rules: nl
In-game text: yes
Comments:
Variant of the Scrabble mechanism
Each player has the same letters
In a game for two you play two colors
Compares to:
Scrabble and other letter placement games
Other editions:
Currently none
Chance (pink): 1
Tactic (turquoise): 0
Strategy (blue): 0
Creativity (dark blue): 3
Knowledge (yellow): 3
Memory (orange): 0
Communication (red): 0
Interaction (brown): 3
Dexterity (green): 0
Action (dark green): 0