Tumblewords

Tumblewords

Designer: Jonathan Leistiko
Publisher: Invisible City Productions
Type: Board, Word
Status: Free
BGG entry: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/17662
Available at: http://www.invisible-city.com/play/119/tumblewords

Tumblewords: It’s like a cross between that game where you make words with tiles and that game where you drop checkers into a vertical grid.

On your turn, Place a tile from your hand in a vacant space at the top of a column. That tile 'falls' down the collumn until it reaches the bottom or lands on another tile.

Look for words that can be formed that use the tile you just played. Words can read up, dowm, left. or right, but must be in a straight line. Score one point for every letter in each word you find; palindromes count twice. If your tile set has blank or 'wild' tiles, declare what letter the blank represents when you play it. That tile continues to represent that letter for the rest of the game.

When you feel that you’ve found all the words you can, draw a tile and end your turn. Play passes to your left.

The game ends when there are no vacant spaces on the board.