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Five-Dollar Words
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Five-Dollar Words

Designed by Mary Holland, Amabel Holland

Published by Hollandspiele

Table Ready: 5 Min Teach

Players

2-6

Play Time

15 min

Complexity

1.0 / 5

Rating

7.2

Year

2023

Community Snapshot

Best with 3
Light complexity
~15 min
7.2 on BGG (15)

Categories

Word Game
Play with words — spelling, vocabulary, wordplay, or language puzzles.

At its best with 3 players, this light game offers set collection gameplay in ~15 min.

How It Plays

End Game Bonuses

Extra points are awarded at the end for meeting certain goals — keep an eye on those bonus objectives!

Set Collection

You're gathering matching groups of cards or tokens to score points — the more complete your sets, the better you do.

Trick-taking

Players play cards in rounds, and the highest card wins the trick — a classic card game mechanic that's endlessly satisfying.

About This Game

There’s an old folk game played on car trips, where you come up with a word using the letters on a license plate, but you must use them in order – BRT can be answered with barrette, for example, but not antidisestablishmentarianism. That often-maddening restriction is at the heart of this persnickety bauble. Given the same three letters in the same order, players will each conjure up a word.…

Source: BoardGameGeek

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