Happy Puzzle 2 Way Words spells Instructions
- June 13, 2024
- Happy Puzzle
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Happy Puzzle 2 Way Words spells Instructions
OVERVIEW:
One player takes the red side and one the blue side. Starting with a hand of
five letter tiles, on your turn place the letter of your choice anywhere into
the grid. On the reverse side of the tile, your opponent sees a different
letter in their colour.
Be the first player to create and remove a three, four, five and six-letter
word from the grid to win. Words can be formed forwards, backwards, up, down
or diagonally. At the same time, try and work out what your opponent is doing
and scupper their plans!
CONTENTS:
1 x battle grid (in three parts)
90 x double-sided letter tiles
1 x tile storage bag
AIM OFTHE GAME:
Be the first player to create a valid three, four, five and six-letter word within the grid and place them in the relevant spaces on your side of the grid base.
SETTING UP:
Begin by assembling the three parts of the battle grid as shown below:
Place all of the tiles into the bag.
Decide which player will play with the red side of the tiles and which player
will play with the blue side of the tiles.
Then decide who will have their turn first.
Both players begin by reaching into the bag, taking five random tiles and
placing them at the front of their side of the grid as shown on the left.
Letters must always display that player’s colour only.
PLAYING THE GAME:
Players take turns in placing ONE of their tiles into the grid, with their colour always facing towards them. This continues until one of the players has created and removed from the grid, a three, four, five and six letter word. Words can be formed horizontally, vertically, diagonally, with the letters running backwards or forwards. Each time a letter tile is used, replace it by taking another random tile from the bag.
STRATEGIES:
Don’t just concentrate on positioning tiles to create your own words – try and
work out what your opponent is doing as well and disrupt their plans. It’s not
always a good idea to try and create your words straight away. For one thing,
your opponent may find it easier to work out what you are trying to do!
It is always advisable to try and spell five and six-letter words early on,
while there is still space on the grid. If possible, make use of the tiles
placed by your opponent, because you may be able to spell a word and remove
the tiles before your opponent is able to create a word of their own.
Once words have been removed, it could change the whole direction of the game!
REMOVING WORDS FROM THE GRID:
Any word which appears in a standard English dictionary is valid. This
includes plurals, but not proper nouns, or any word which needs to start with
a capital letter, abbreviations, or words which require a hyphen or an
apostrophe.
You can choose to remove your letters forming a word at any point (providing
you have not already removed another word with the same number of letters).
Therefore a word can be removed at the start of your turn or the end of your
turn.
Once a player declares a correct word, they spell it out to their opponent and
if the word is agreed as correct, they remove the word from the grid and place
it in the allotted space on the grid base. If a player incorrectly declares a
word, the tiles remain in the grid and that player will miss their next turn.
If all 49 spaces on the grid have been filled without a declared winner, both
players add the total number of letters across all of their completed words.
The player with the highest number of letters is deemed the winner. In the
event that both players have the same score, the result is a draw!
AN EASIERVERSION OFTHE RULES:
When playing with younger players, you can of course choose to play to
complete just the three, four and five letter words. You could even use the
space for a six letter word to add two further three letter words!
Good luck!
2 Way Words was devised by Shaun Delaney.
For the Wilkinson truly amazing people.
Warning! Not suitable for children under three years old due to small parts.
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