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Word on the Street, Out of the Box Publishing, 2009
playing the German version @ Essen 2013
Word on the Street
Giant WOTS at Origins 2010
Giant WOTS at Origins 2010
Sister gets the MVP!
Word on the Street Bakelite tiles
Life-size version of the game being played at GenCon Indy 2010 Trade Day.
Brother get the LSR!
Game in progress.

Word on the Street (2009)

Players
2–10
Best: 2, 4, 6
Playing time
20–20 min
Age
12+
6.60
Average rating
2,811
Ratings
1.34/5
Weight
#2778
BGG rank
Top 5,000
Alternate names:Bokstavsbataljen +7 more
Designer:Jack Degnan
Artist:John Kovalic, Cathleen Quinn-Kinney, Max Winter Osterhaus, Matt Roussel, Manuel Sanchez, Sébastien Bizos
Publisher:AMIGO +9 more
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 5, Luck 5, Interaction 9, Complexity 2.7, Theme 3
Strategy5.0
Luck5.0
Interaction9.0
Complexity2.7
Theme3.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

Word GameParty GameTeam-Based GameSquare GridSpelling

Overview

In Word on the Street, players – either individually or in teams – try to claim letter tiles from the game board.

To set up the game, seventeen letter tiles (all the consonants in English other than j, q, x, and z) are placed in a strip down the center of the game board – the median strip of the street, if you will, which has two "traffic lanes" on either side of it. On a turn, one team is presented with a category such as "types of fruit" or "something a player is wearing", and that team has thirty seconds to come up with an answer in that category, then move the letters in that word toward their side of the game board. Any letters in the word that are not on the game board are skipped. If the answer were "pineapple", for example, the team would move P, N, P, P and L.

If a team moves a letter off the game board, it has claimed that letter and that tile will not move for the remainder of the game. The first team to claim eight letter tiles wins!

Expansions

Word on the Street: Expansion 1
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