Quiddler

We learned a new card game this week. I bought Heather Quiddler for Christmas a few years ago and we had never even opened it! Jessi pulled it out the other day and asked if I would play it with her. It was a lot of fun! Kind of a cross between Scrabble and Rummy. The game consists of 8 hands. In the first hand everyone receives 3 cards, in the second 4, all the way up to 10 cards in the last hand. Each card has a letter or a phonogram (ie. th, qu, er, etc.) and each has different point values. On each turn you draw a card from the draw pile or the discard pile and see if you can use all your cards to make a word or words with one left over to discard. Each word must use at least 2 cards. When you can use all your cards you may lay them down and then each player has one more chance to play. They may lay down any words that they have in their hand and only cards that don't make words are counted against them. To score each hand you add up the points on the cards (minus any left-over cards). You receive a 10 point bonus for having the longest word and another bonus is given to the one who laid down the MOST words. If there is a tie the bonus is forfeited. Fun and educational! What more could you ask for?!