Word Fight 2012

From the publisher: In Word Fight it's your turn all the time!

The word game fever is all over the world. If you like Scrabble, Word Feud and Bananagrams, you'll love Word Fight: The word game without any downtime.

Word Fight takes it to the next level. All players play at the same time. Through three rounds of 5 minutes, it becomes more challenging. The loser will guaranteed call for a rematch. And that takes no longer than 15 minutes!

Gameplay: Each player receives their own 9x5 squared board, and an extra space for 7 private tiles. In the middle of the table, all the letter tiles are placed face down. When the 5 minute timer is started, all players reveal their own 7 tiles, and can play these on their own board. They can make words as they want, using the same rules as in Scrabble. Letters already placed may not be rearranged. When there is room for letters on their board, new tiles may be drawn from the face down pile in the middle, or other players discard pile. Players may discard unused tiles face up, snd others may take these as needed.

When the time is up, all players count their used letters. 1 point for each placed letter, 5 points for 5-letter words, 10 for 7-letters and 20 for 9-letter words. For each letter in an invalid word, -5 points.

This goes on for 3 rounds. The second round adds a challenge. 4 face down tiles are placed on each players boards, decided by the player with the least points. They are blocked. The third round, these tiles are turned face up, and must stay where they are.

The winner after 3 rounds is the one with the most points in total.