Bunce 2025

One alphabet. Six words. Sounds easy. Good luck!

Bunce, English; informal

A delightful word game suitable for all ages; noun A deck of cards with letters & values from which a hand is drawn and the best word played; adjective A bonus for playing all the cards from your hand; noun

A crosswords-inspired word game using cards. Using the English alphabet, each player has a deck of 27 cards with each card having a letter and value with one "wild" card. Each round a player will draw a specified number of cards. From that draw the player will try to create a word from the previous player's word. Points are scored from the cards in the new word. Unused cards from the draw are counted against your score and discarded. Letters on the table not used in the word scored are discarded leaving only one word on the table at a time. After the players have drawn all the cards from their deck the player with the highest score is the winner.

—description from the designer