Quiddler
by SET Enterprises Inc.
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Toys and Games Reviews of Quiddler
Customer Review: Been loving this game for 10 years now!
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this game on a whim about 10 years ago. All 3 of us at home liked it instantly and it quickly became a favorite. It helped our daughter with spelling and has always been a neat challenge for us grownups. After losing the game during a series of moves, I finally had to buy it again to play with my mother-in-law. I can see I'll have to buy it for her for Christmas or something because it was the only game she wanted to play during a recent beach weekend.
The best way to describe this game is: rummy with letters on the cards. You never know what letters you'll be dealt and your hand can easily change with just one drawn card so it's always a fun (and sometimes aggravating) challenge. When playing with pre-teen kids, it can sometimes be a challenge to not always go out first and/or not always win. The way I figured out to work around that is to not lay my hand down for a turn or two, to give the younger folks a chance to work something out. Hey, it works! It's a fantastic educational game without it being too obviously educational to kids.
I had forgotten that there's a solitaire version and am going to get the deck out to try that as soon as I send in this review...
Customer Review: Win, Win, Win
Summary: 5 Stars
We play Quiddler several times per week. We play it after a hard work day. We play it whenever we are tired. We play it anytime that we aren't interested in or can't agree on television. (You'll actually be able to downgrade your cable connection, just because "Quiddler" is more fun, relaxing, and entertaining.) A good raucous game of "Quiddler" is pretty quiet. You'll be too busy checking spellings in your dictionary, switching cards around to stimulate new words into your brain, be anticipating the next possible letter that you might draw, making decisions, and plotting your strategy. But best of all, this is a game that a person of 12, 30, 50, 80, 90, or a 100 years old can all play together. Everybody can win. Everybody has fun. And everybody will have more energy when it is over than when they started. You might want to maintain your health, so that you can be your best at "Quiddler". It will show in your score. One Tip, the game changes in speed and enjoyment according to the number of players that you have. I like 3 players, but two is pretty fine also. 4 is ok, but I want to break out a second card set and play two games at once if there are 6 of us. Have fun.
Customer Review: This is a great game.
Summary: 5 Stars
Games with our family and even games with friends have become very competitive. Through 8 rounds each player must utilize as many of the cards in his hand as he can by making words out of them. This is basically like scrabble in your hand, but you have to try to use all of your letters at once instead of in individual turns and you do not play off words made by other players. You are on your own to turn your cards into words.
It's a fun game that can be played for hours. I will admit that when we play we keep a dictionary nearby for help. Cheating? Maybe. But it makes the game more fun. And it is always funny when you get to use a word you learned playing Quiddler and you get to laugh when you remember how you learned it.
When my family gets together Quiddler comes out of the box. We don't have anyone younger than 23 at this point. I am not sure this game would be fun to play across generations when younger people were involved. The gaps in vocabulary may be to wide. But we have a good time when we play. Our vocabularies are all equally small! (Except Mom's; she always wins.)
Customer Review: (Almost) better than sex for word-lovers
Summary: 5 Stars
My girlfriend and I went on a game shopping spree recently, looking for some good adult games that let you use your brain. We came away with about six games, including Quiddler. The most expensive of the six was in the $30 range. The least expensive (under $10) was Quiddler. So far, I think we've had a lot more fun playing Quiddler than all the other games combined. We both like Scrabble quite a bit (I've been playing for... well... more years than I really want to admit), and Quiddler gives you a lot of the features of Scrabble, but without the cumbersome board, bag of tiles, letter trays, etc. We started out playing it at the table, but have since moved to the living room floor. When all you need is the deck of cards and a pencil and paper (and occasionally a dictionary) you can play it almost anywhere. It'd be great to take along on a trip to make the miles pass more quickly. It's a cleverly designed game that delivers a great deal of fun for those who enjoy thinking, without a bunch of playing pieces and complicated rules. Highly recommended!Customer Review: a fun cross between Gin and Scrabble
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a fun game. The rules are similar to Gin -- get each card in your hand into a straight before your opponent does and you win. But instead of suits and numbers each card has a letter or pair of letters, and the goal is to make words. The first hand is 3 cards, the second hand is 4 cards, etc...on up to 13 cards.
I like this game because unlike Scrabble, the person with the amazing vocabulary doesn't always win, because several short words are just as effective in using up your cards as one long word. (In fact, you get a 10 point bonus for either longest word OR most words). So my 8 year olds aren't outgunned by their word-loving elders.
As a nice plus, the art work on the cards themselves is well done.
The only minus is that the deck is double sized (110 cards) and so shuffling is a bear. Would also have been nice if they included a container that held the whole deck (instead it comes with a tray that has slots for 2 half decks.)