Bananagrams

So I started playing this little game last night at my friend's place and thought might as well review it.

For those of you who have never heard nor played this game, 144 letters are unloaded from a conveniently packed banana, and flipped upside-down into the middle of a table. This little pile of tiles is known as the bunch. Each player (we played with five) then takes 21 tiles; tiles still upside-down. A player says split and all player flip their tiles and simultaneously arrange them to create their own crosswords, which can be revised at any point in the game. If someone can't find a use for a letter they can say dump, put that letter back into the bunch and take 3 letters. When some is able to use all their letters, they say peel and all players take one from the bunch. The object of the game is to use all your letters first with nothing remaining in the bunch.

Anyways, it was a blast really. When compared to Scrabble (which is also awesome) Bananagrams is great because there's no keeping record of points, it's nicely packed in a neat banana case for easy transportation, and you can have more then four people playing at once.

All of us had a terrible vocabulary consisting mainly of dirty words so the game didn't run all too great but it was still fun nonetheless. If you can get your hands on this game don't hesitate to do so!

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