Banana grams Games
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Just when you thought it was now safe to come out and play, you realize that family fun time will never be the same again!
Never again does the family have to be bundled in a confined space and be forced to play mundane games in the name of bonding, nor do you have to be subjected to the "Good Ol’ Days" stories from Uncle Bernie who now lives in the basement!
Enter the banana grams game – a highly addictive and highly interactive game that has won the hearts and minds of families World over!
Modeled along the lines of scrabble…and you’d be forgiven for thinking that this was indeed scrabble…but the similarities end there!
In a society where spelling’s just as good as one’s command of Quantum Physics or molecular biology, you’ll now be glad to note there’s a board game that caters to all persuasions and intellect!
This game will mesmerize your 4 year old as much as it will blow Aunt Suzie’s bunions off with the depth and creativity modeled into it!
Unlike scrabble which requires a board, you’ll be aptly pleased to note that the banana-gram game does not require any such contraption and, to make matters easier for you, the game packs away neatly in a distinctive carrying container that looks quite like a banana!
If public admiration and attention is your game, then banana-grams is your fix, for attention you will definitely get, and friends will you make as you attempt to teach newly found opponents to play against, be it at the Starbucks whilst waiting for your moco java chai latte, in a restaurant or just hanging out!
The games comes with 144 lettered tiles, where each player gets to pick a quantity from the pile; then play begins as soon as someone declares “split”!
Banana-gram’s a fun, fast paced word game, playable, with simple rules, yet the game is complex enough to hold the interest of the deepest word-game fanatic.
RULES:
To start the game, you simply unzip the Bananagrams bag (as if that needs special mention!) and you dump the letters out onto any flat surface, though a table will do. You then flip all of the 144 tiles face-side down.
They are all pushed together into a "bunch".
Next, each player draws a quantity of tiles depending on the number of people playing the game.
For 2-4 people, 21 tiles each.
For five or six players, 15 tiles each.
For seven or eight players, have each player draw 11 tiles.
As soon as all the players have drawn their requisite number of letters, some player, any player, shouts, "Split!" signaling for the players to begin flipping letters and creating words.
The words created must connect and intersect in a manner similar to a crossword or scrabble. When a player uses up all of his or her letters, he or she states, "Peel!" then all the players must draw another letter.
Players can rearrange their letters as often as they like, even letters they have already placed. (If you draw a "Q" and you need a "U" that is in the middle of another word, it can be pulled out as long as the resulting combinations ultimately form words.)
If a letter is drawn that seems impossible to place, a player may call out "Dump!" and exchange this letter for three others. No other player should take a tile on a dump.
Play goes on until there are less tiles in the bunch than there players. The first person to use all of his or her remaining letters says, rather excitedly, "Bananas!"
This person will be crowned the winner of the "hand" if all of their words check out!
All of the other players then inspect the "winning" hand. Each word is scrutinized for legality. A legal word is one found in an official dictionary (players can agreed upon the volume in advance). There is no penalty for challenging a player’s word.
If an illegal word is found in the played "hand", that player is declared a "rotten banana" and is out of the hand. His tiles are returned to the bunch, and play is resumed as before.