Bananagrams
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Bananagrams
- It hides a word game with huge appeal
- Features 144 letter tiles that are face down in the middle, from which players choose their tiles
- For 2 or more players
- Great for travel
- Recommended for 7 years and up
Ages 7 & up. In this unique word game, players use tiles to create words crossword-style. The first player to use all their tiles is the winner. With multiple ways to play, this game is perfect for beginning spellers, as well as more advanced players. No pencil, paper, or board required.
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List Price: $ 14.95
Price: $ 6.49
Bananagrams Word Game - Fun For All Ages
For ages word games have been known to provide entertainment, sharpen ones mind and help improve ones vocabulary.
Bananagrams is a modern day fun and fast word game that still does all these things. It is well liked because it is small, easy to carry and great for travel.
Banangrams can help teach children that words can be fun and for adults it can keep their mental skills sharp.
The banana like pouch is referred to as the "BUNCH" and it is filled with 144 letter tiles which are used to play the game. To start the game the tiles are dumped on a flat surface and each is turned face down. Then each player draws a certain number of tiles. How many is drawn by each player depends on the number of people playing the game at that time. A one game set is built for 2 to 8 players.
Once the tiles are drawn, one of the players calls "SPLIT" and then each player begins to form their own collection of connecting and intersecting words.
Words created may be vertical or horizontal, reading left to right. All players are playing at the same time, independently of each other. A player is allowed to rearrange their own words as often as they like.
When any player has used up all of their tiles, they call "PEEL" and each player has to draw another tile. If a letter is drawn that seems impossible to place, then the player calls "DUMP" and exchanges that letter for three others. No other players will take an additional tile on a "DUMP".
The game ends when there are fewer tiles left in the BUNCH than there are players and a player has used up all of his or her tiles. Then that player calls "BANANAS". If the player has all legal words then that player is declared the winner.
If an illegal word is found in the professed winners words then he or she is declared a "ROTTEN BANANA" and their tiles are returned to the "BUNCH" and the game continues with the other players.
Since this game is so easily transported it is great for entertaining while camping out, waiting in a restaurant to be served, traveling in the car, carrying to grandparents house, played at birthday parties, etc.
Not only is it a fun game for any household it is a great gift to give, especially to day cares, retirement homes and school programs.
Enrich a child's mind as well as those of adults around them with the fun and fast word game Bananagrams.
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Review by CristyW for Bananagrams
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Do you like Scrabble but get hung up trying to use those special point squares, are bummed when someone “steals your spot”, or dragged down by Debbie Dictionary (“just let me look up this one word”) or Slow Joe (who takes 20 minutes for each turn)? Well you would love Bananagrams, because it solves those problems. There are no special squares (or squares at all), no points on the letters (all are worth the same) and no time to dawdle. You are instead rewarded for speed and flexibility in making your own crossword. You can completely pull apart your crossword and start from scratch if you need to or just swap out a letter here and there, but don’t get caught with a bunch of spare letters when an opponent goes out!
It is exciting and challenging to play this game with adults, but it can be fun to include the kids. You can easily adapt the rules to suit yourself. We “handicap” the adults by drawing two tiles for every one the kids draw. You can play solitaire or have several players.
A similar game that I also love is Learning Resources’ “Take Four”. If you are the type who would prefer to have a grid to keep those tiles straight, or likes to have a few “jokers” thrown in, you might prefer this. But Banagrams is far more portable and much cheaper. I like both of these games so much (as well as the spelling card games Quiddler, My Word, and Tri-Virsity) that the old Scrabble board is gathering dust.
Review by M. JOHNSON for Bananagrams
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This is a family favorite! There are a variety of ways you can play this game. We use three or four sets for our large “extended” family games. One of the best facets of this game is its portability–fits in a purse, backpack, or car glove box. We give bonus points at the end of each for the most creative word, longest word, etc.
Review by J. McKeever for Bananagrams
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I played this game with a close family member and was in love with it at first sight. Unlike Scrabble, you play somewhat independently and are able to rearrange words constantly to make your letters fit and to create new words. You know that annoying friend or family who always takes your spot in scrabble??? They can’t take the spot you wanted to use! You’re truly working against the clock to be the first to say “Bananas!”
I’ve bought it for everyone I know as a gift since then. It’s original, super fun and portable. A great game to travel with, play in hotel, at pool, on plane, keep kids busy at restaurant (or you and your friend/ spouse) while waiting for dinner! Lots of ways to use this portable, simple game.
I highly recommend and will continue to give this as a gift.
Only negative I can conceive…durability. Be careful of marking the letters somehow. We hope no one cheats, but if you scratch them on a black table…well then…try to clean it off.
Review by S. A. Cusack for Bananagrams
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First purchased this game in Minneapolis. It’s for all age groups over 5.
Before school the game was played by 3rd and [...] grandchildren. Just recently played it with 2 retired teachers, a lst grade teacher, and a librarian. We couldn’t stop playing it. Later one of the friends called to say she had just ordered two of games; one for her home and the other for the granddaughters. Many ways to play. Exciting!
Review by Toller Girl for Bananagrams
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I was shopping for a Christmas gift for my niece last December, and came across all of these rave reviews for Bananagrams. So I bought one for us 50/60-somethings instead (she’ll get one this year.) It lives on the kitchen table and we play a few games almost every morning before we go to work. GREAT GAME!!!!! No waiting around for your turn, no angst trying to achieve the triple-word-value square, no getting stuck with hopeless letters turn after turn, no arguments, no dictionary – just pure love of and fun with words. It’s complete flexible and you can easily change the rules, for example if you are playing with a novice or child, or just for a change (try playing into and building onto your opponent’s pattern.) It definitely gets tossed into my travel bag from now on.