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Phase 10 Card Game

Fundex Phase 10 Game By Fundex

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars A Family Game Night Keeper
Phase 10 is a great family fun game–enjoyable for 7 year olds on up.

The idea is to finish one phase and then get rid of the cards left in your hand. Be the first to finish all 10 phases and win the game.

The typical game lasts about an hour.

To start each player is dealt 10 cards and they all work on Phase 1, which is getting two sets of three similar cards. three 5’s and three 12’s, for example. Once you’ve laid down your phase you’re ready to discard your cards and move on to next phase. You can play for points or play to be the first one out.

It’s a good game to teach younger children sequences, and counting; and challenging enough to keep kids of ages interested.

Since it’s a card game, the durability isn’t long lasting–depending upon how rough you are with cards.

Easy to pick up, and entirely fun.

5 Stars Great game, nice to change things up
We like Rummy, Yahtzee, Scrabble, Uno, those types of games, and a friend brought over Phase 10 so we tried it. It only took a few minutes to get the hang of it, especially if you know how to play Rummy so you’re familiar with making runs like 3 of a kind, etc. I couldn’t believe how much fun this simple game was. Definitely recommend it, it was a lot of fun.

4 Stars Phase 10
I love the card game we play weekly here in Iraq. It helps passes the time a way It’s a great famiy game. I hooked on it.

4 Stars Just Excellent, Never ending Fun

We really love this game, 2-6 players, 10 phases but You could create more phases as well. we play 15

4 Stars Great change from just Rummy or Solataire
Got this game to play at home because we play it alot at the Station. Its a good just rummy or solataire. We play alot of cards to pass the time while waiting on a call in EMS.

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Scrabble Diamond Anniversary Edition

Sixty has never looked so good! This Diamond Anniversary Edition Scrabble features sleek black and silver tiles, a rotating board splashed with color, curved letter racks of smoky red plastic, and much more. With two built-in side trays for storing game pieces and a raised grid that keeps your letters in place, this anniversary edition of Scrabble will please all players ages eight and above.

The new curved letter racks make it easier to see all your letters. View larger.

Built-in drawers makes it easy to keep everything organized. View larger.

What We Think Fun Factor: Durability: (what this means) The Good: Sleek and colorful new look gives this Scrabble set a touch of class. The Bad: Carrying case doesn’t shut. In a Nutshell: A snazzy improved edition of Scrabble that’s both fun and functional. At a Glance Ages: 8 and up

Expert Tips and Fascinating History
If you’ve never played Scrabble before, the Gameplay Guide explains the rules in a clear, easy-to-read way. It also has lots of tips to sharpen your game (a list of “q-without-u” words, for example). The sturdy plastic board needs no assembly and the storage trays cleverly built into the bottom of the board are easy to find, especially with help from the Gameplay Guide. The game also comes with a Gameplay Guide that offers many helpful hints, as well as interesting historical tidbits (For example, did you know the game used to be called “Criss Cross Words?”)

A Sleek New Look for Scrabble
The black-and-silver tiles, the smoky red racks, and the velvety tile pouch give this Scrabble set a touch of class. The curvature of the racks help you to see your letters more easily than you could on the old, straight racks. During gameplay, the raised grid will help keep your tiles firmly in place, even when the board spins towards another player. The pouch helps keep all the letters and racks together during play. Put them in the storage trays when you’re done, fold the board back up — and voila — you have a carrying case that makes this deluxe Scrabble game easy to take with you.

Fun and Functional
We really liked the look of this colorful board, with its cheerful blue, green, red, and orange “premium” squares. We also appreciated the way the set folds up into a carrying case, complete with the storage trays and handle. It’s not advertised as a travel set, but you can use it that way. You just have to be careful to hold the set closed when transporting it, since it doesn’t snap shut. Also, the storage trays can get a little full when you try to put all the letters and racks in one tray, so make sure you tuck everything neatly into the tray so it will close.

Millions of people around the world love the game of Scrabble, and we’re sure they’ll be just as happy as we are to see this new, improved edition with features that make it both more fun and more functional!

What’s in the Box
Scrabble board with two built-in storage trays, 100 letter tiles, tile pouch, four racks, and gameplay guide.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Diamonds are a word’s best friend
Since the only other scrabble game I’ve owned is about 20 years old, I thought this was a wonderful improvement. I love the fact that the letters no longer slide all over the board if it gets accidentally bumped, I’m thrilled with the lazy susan device so that the game easily rotates from player to player, the drawers are convenient for storing the tiles and holders and I like the bright, cheerful colors. I’m also pleased with the foldability, the ease of transport and storage. It doesn’t include a timer, but I already have one. I also don’t miss the score pad as I just use looseleaf paper. Overall, I’m very happy with my new game and play it often at homes or even at coffee houses with friends. It’s very user-friendly and a great way to keep those little gray cells procreating! So, if you’re flummoxed or in a conundrum as to what to buy, I’d suggest this Diamond Edition Scrabble game. Have fun!

5 Stars They finally designed a portable Scrabble Game that makes sense
My previous portable Scrabble game was a nuisance. The tiles popped our of their places. I had always thought they should reissue the magnetic version. Now they’ve finally come out with a winner. Although this edition is compact, it is not small. However, its features make up for its size. Two spacious drawers provide storage (no scorepad is provided). The ridges around the squares keep the tiles in place. In addition, the board turns on wheels. They even curved the racks for added privacy. The case folds and has a handle for easy carrying. Good engineering, overall!

4 Stars Good family game
It a great game for family night. No real issues with the construction of the board except being nostalgic grew up with wooden tiles and this comes with black plastic tiles. Sometimes you can’t have eveything.

5 Stars Fun and Educational – a perfect match!
I purchased this game for my almost-26-year-old son as a gift. It’s one of his favorite games, which says a lot for a guy with former spelling “issues”. I can honestly say that this game, combined with prefix/suffix information, improved his spelling and reading (and then comprehension!) significantly as a junior high student, and now as an adult, too! Thanks to the ability to read and understand, he became an avid reader, a better student, and even graduated from high school early! I know it sounds funny to attribute his success to a game, and I’m not saying that this game was the “it” that did it, but Scrabble sure did help! This particular version is more mobile for him whether he goes to game night at a friend’s house, or stays home. It’s easier to store than the old box version, too.

5 Stars nice version of a classic board game
If you’re a Scrabble fan, this is a great board. It’s especially good if you travel. I wouldn’t buy it as an extra board, but I feel it is a great replacement if you’re looking for something different.

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Scrabble Crossword Game

After all these years, it’s still hard to get a triple word score, the tiles are still made of wood, and there’s only one “X” in the whole box. The game of Scrabble has sparked feuds and a near-cult following. All the fuss is over a spelling game that hasn’t had an upgrade in 50 years. It takes a little luck and a lot of skill to make high-scoring words out of seven little letters, sometimes with an overabundance of vowels and letters that don’t go together–sometimes there’s Q without U. Two to four players battle it out on the board, and while some players might be proud of impressive words (”I spelled gestalt!”), skilled players know how to use the premium letter and word squares on the 225-square board to their best advantage. This crossword game has strict rules (no names, no slang) and comes with a warning label: “Choose a dictionary first to avoid any ugly word disputes.” –Lynne Sampson

User Ratings and Reviews

3 Stars Good set
Scrabble is a very popular game and there is very little that I can add as review on the game. However, this scrabble set is very nice. Would make an excellent gift set.

I would have liked :

1. More number of alphabet pieces.

2. The letters are on one side of the piece, they could have been punched on both side of the pieces.

3. A scoreboard to maintain the player scores.

5 Stars Classic!
It’s Scrabble! How can you go wrong?

This is the classic board, with simple racks and a flat board. Functional and inexpensive. The only real annoyance is that the tiles can get skewed/disorganized on the board while you’re playing since they don’t have the raised grooves that the deluxe boards do. Still, perfectly manageable.

5 Stars Challenging and Fun
I love this game but I wish I’d gotten the deluxe version with the plastic grid gameboard.

5 Stars A Classic You Just Can’t Beat
My wife and our friends have been huge Scrabble fans from way back. We were playing a lot of the Scrabble beta app on Facebook, but were getting tired of all the bugs. Plus, a good old-fashioned face to face game can’t be beat. This set hasn’t changed a bit from the version I played as a kid. This is the no frills version: the board doesn’t revolve lazy Susan style and the tile bag is just made of plastic. Other than that, the game materials are high quality. As for game play, if you happen to be that rare person who has never played Scrabble, it is a classic board game and a ton of fun. And yes, it is educational and encourages literacy.

5 Stars Its a classic!
I don’t think Scrabble needs a review, but just in case: this is a great game. I like it more as an adult. I grew bored with it as a child. And, being the youngest by many years, it was also a game I could never win. No fun! But I like it now!

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Scrabble Junior Edition

If there’s any game out there that normally makes little kids feel left out, it’s Scrabble, the word game that’s usually played by adults and older kids. But Scrabble Junior is a great way to introduce young children to the game and get them interested in how words are formed. In the beginner game, specially developed for younger kids, players draw seven tiles from a pool, then work to match letters to the ones printed on the board. As they work through their tiles, they spell out the words, one letter at a time, and receive points for finishing each word. By the end of the game, they’ll have used over a hundred letters to work through a variety of different words. On the other side of the board there is a basic version of the classic Scrabble game with simple scoring rules. Once your children master the advanced game, you might be surprised to see that they’re ready to take you on in a match of the original Scrabble. Just be prepared to lose gracefully. –John Longenbaugh

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Educational Fun Game
This old standard is great fun for younger children in this jr. edition. My 6 yr. old grandson just loves it and plays it often.

2 Stars Scrabble Jr. Review
This game was disappointing. It needs to be more like the real adult version with double points, etc. It did not come with a holder for the letters, so we had to lay down our letters on the table and others could see them. Letters were made of medium thick cardboard! Overall, the game was just okay.

2 Stars Not really worth it!
Buy the real one instead. It’s cheaply constructed and really limited on the “Junior” side.

4 Stars Our almost 3 y.o. son loves this game
Our almost 3 year old son loves this game and asks to play it multiple times every day. He’s fascinated with letters and has recently started reading. I thought this game would be a fun way for him to learn a few words. He has already learned all the preprinted words on the board. He has also learned how to take turns and follow the game rules. The only shortcomings that I see are:

1) the cardboard letters and board, which are not very durable or cleanable

2) there should be some alternate pre-printed game boards avaliable to keep the interest level up for a longer time

4 Stars Good for an age range of children playing together
Our whole family could play this game together, which is rare. The 3yr old could place tiles for us on the printed game board by matching letters. The emerging 6yr old reader could recognize the printed words without having to know how to spell them correctly on her own as with a blank board. The 10yr old and adults could just play along without it being obnoxiously simple. This was a great game for a nice family evening. It has potential for the game to get more complex as it also includes a blank game board, which would be good with older children. The game tokens are shoddy tagboard punch outs, my only complaint about this game. Well worth the price, but I would have paid a few bucks extra for better quality pieces.

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Quiddler

The challenge of Quiddler is to arrange your entire hand into words. Draw and discard in turn. Try to use those high point letters, but don’t get caught with them uncombined! Quiddler is fast paced because you can play using everyday words. A bonus is given for the most words in each round (so little words can help you win), as well as for the longest word. Quiddler is a delightful challenge for both rookies and word game lovers. Quiddler is for up to eight players.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars great game with kids
Fun game for kids and adults, can be very competitive or everyone can help other players, good for new readers with help.

5 Stars Quiddler is a Great Family Game
On A recent trip to visit a friend in San Diego, my 16 year old grand daughter and i were introduced to Quiddler. we played this game several times each night and could not wait to get home to order some. I ordered 5 games, one for my friend, my sister, myself, my daughter and her family and one to spare. This gane appeals to every age group form my 7 year old grand son to my 77 year old mother. This is a great family game. Did you know that QUA is a word.

5 Stars A good gift for 7-8 year olds….
I had read the reviews prior to the purchase. Considering this is an award winning game, I was sure it would be a good buy. It is a good gift for kids who love words and a first fun game with words before graduating to the Scrabble. Personally, I think it is more fun than the Scrabble for 7 year olds. The 7-8 year olds I bought this game loved it. I got two of them from Amazon. Fabulous gift!

5 Stars My Favorite Game
General Commentary:

- I normally play with 20-30 somethings from 10 minutes to 2 hours each sitting.

Good:

- Can be played with people of all levels .

- Great for helping people with spelling and vocabulary.

- Allows for varied time play (a round of possibly 5 minutes to hours of fun.)

- Can be played collaboratively, help other players arrange cards to maximize points.

- Leads to interesting conversations about word definitions and word combination.

- Great for play at any location: the park, the beach, the car (be aware of potential carsickness), Tea Station.

Bad:

- Sometimes does require a dictionary.

Overall:

- I love this game.

- It’s my personal favorite among all the SET card games.

5 Stars Love this game
Played Quiddler at a party, and because it was such a good time, decided to purchase it. Sort of Scrabble and rummy combined…what’s not to love.

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