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- The fast-paced word game where anything can happen. Fast-playing, card-slapping word-changing fun
- Scrabble Slam is a high-speed four letter word game, race against each other to change the existing word and get rid of your cards
- Game could become fame, and fame could become fate. You never know where it will go with Scrabble Slam
- Play this game with your family and friends.
- Vacation fun or perfect stocking stuffers. Either way you win.
Product Description
SCRABBLE SLAM is a fast-paced word game where anything could happen! Race against each other to change the existing four-letter word and get rid of your cards. “Game” could become “fame” and “fame” could become “fate”—you never know where it’ll go. Be the first player to get rid of all of your cards to win!… More >>
Scrabble Slam Cards
The premise of the game is to build four letter words. There are alot more than you think. I tried doing a round with five letter words and didnt get too far. I presume they did their homework in picking four letters. Its a fast pace game, it gets a bit dull when the players start throwing down DULL, FULL, DULL, FULL, etc. Repeats are allowed so it can get repetitious. Two player games are hard to come by so for a couple bucks, its worth it to pick it up to entertain yourselves a couple of rounds for a half hour or so.
Rating: 4 / 5
not really at all like Scrabble, but a fast, find 4 letter words game. Everyone plays at once, so you have to be quick and loud! This has been sold out at the local Target’s and Walmarts around me, but I ended up finding one for around $5 at the last Target I found. Hopefully the price will come down here at Amazon soon. Picked up this one and Monopoly Deal – and everyone loved Monopoly Deal a lot more. All in all, for a 5 min game, fast and easy, this one was good! For 20 min of thoughtful fun, try Monopoly Deal!
Rating: 4 / 5
I very rarely play card games outside of Rummy and the occasional game of Poker. However, one Sunday morning I noticed a coupon in the USA Today insert which advertised a buy one get one free offer for Hasbro/Parker Brother’s new card games. I picked up “Monopoly Deal” and this game, “Scrabble Slam”.
As card games go this one is pretty simple. A four letter word is laid out on the table (CHUM, LUMP, GATE, etc) and the remaining cards are dealt out to each player. Not all letters are present in the “deck” of 55 cards. There are no Q’s and no X’s, although there are couple of Z’s and several Blanks (which can assume the form of whatever letter you want them to take, just like the Scrabble board game). Each card has two letters on it, one on the front and one on the back, and this allows the player a lot of flexibility to change words that are on the board.
Each player then takes it in turn to lay down a single card anywhere on the 4 letter word. For instance, player 1 may spell GRIM and player two lays down a P to make it GRIP. Player 1 may respond with a T making it TRIP. As the game progresses it can become somewhat challenging to make words out and needless to say that you’ll want to get rid of the harder letters as soon as possible (Z, J, K, etc.) because if that’s all you have left at the end of the game you’re going to be in a world of hurt. The person with the fewest cards at the end of the game wins. If one wants to up the difficulty a bit simply up the number of letters in the word. Just making it 5 letters long had a noticeable effect and made it much more challenging.
I rate this game at 3 1/2 stars. It’s not really a great game but I’ve certainly played worse. It passes the time, which is what it was designed to do, and does so well enough.
Pros:
-Very, very easy game to learn
-Your kids will have fun and learn words along the way. Not a bad thing at all.
-At $5.00 at my local Wally World (do *not* pay the $20.00 they have listed here) this game is a great value.
-The game plays very quickly, clocking in at 20 minutes or less.
Cons:
-It’s not exactly the most exciting game in the world
-Depending upon the number of players and the number of letters on the board some players may get more cards than others, and that makes it a bit unfair trying to determine who the winner will be.
-The Dealer is going to see what cards everyone is getting, although only a MENSA candidate with a photographic memory is going to be able to remember who has what.
Rating: 4 / 5
this game looked like great fun on tv so bought it. They are to be gifts so haven’t played yet. We love games so I think it will be a winner. Can’t give a fair rating yet though.
Rating: 3 / 5
Nothing that exciting. We are big scrabble players and I guess I was expecting more. We still had an hour of fun. One good thing is this is portable!
Rating: 3 / 5