Quiddler
by SET Enterprises Inc.
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Toys and Games Reviews of Quiddler
Customer Review: Word Lovers Are Quiddler Lovers!
Summary: 5 Stars
Do you love to take the twenty-six letters of our alphabet and combine them to make words? If you said "yes", than Quiddler (not to be confused with the wizard sport Quidditch in the Harry Potter books) is for you. In this fun but challenging card game, players attempt to be the first player to make a REAL word (excluding names) out of the cards delt to them. But the catch is that with every turn, the player must discard a card, and every card has an assigned value. So be careful what you discars!This game is great for future or current writers to expand or enrich their knowlege of words to put in their books, but it can also be fun for the unable writer who can benift from this game by gaining valueable knowlege of simple and complex words.
Also, try Scrabble (or, for the young one, Scrabble Jounior) to enrich vocabulary in a fun, unique, and special way!
Customer Review: Don't Worry If Your Vocabulary Isn't Great; Strategy Counts!
Summary: 5 Stars
Word games can be intimidating if you don't have a great vocabulary, but don't let that scare you away from this GREAT game. Instead of kicking yourself for not having a great word, concentrate on strategy. Be the first one to put your word(s) down. Or hold off until someone else does and then see if you can steal a bonus away from them. Put on your poker face and keep the others guessing.You earn bonus points for having the longest word or the most words. That makes simple words work for you. Just pray you don't get stuck with a fistful of consonants without vowels!
This is a favorite family game. It's fast paced and don't take a whole lot of time to play a round. There's nothing complicated about it so it's easy to bring along when you travel. A word to the wise: pick a dictionary before you start and agree that if a word's not in there, it doesn't count.
Customer Review: Fabulous fun for all ages!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This game has become an instant favorite in my family... Now mind you, when I say family, I don't mean my children (as I don't have any). I mean my ENTIRE family! Grandparents, Aunts, In-Laws, they all got a kick out of it when we brought it over for Thanksgiving. We must have played 30 games over that weekend... No Kidding! On a more helpful note, this game is so great because everybody can play, despite limited vocabulary, and playing with such a wide variety of ages ensures that everybody is learning new words! I was teaching my grandmother and she was teaching me!
The only issue with this game is that playing so frequently got the cards a bit dirty. My husband, my mother, and I took a half hour and carefully wiped down each card with a damp cloth (drying it quickly afterwards) and it gave them new life, but I guess for [money] we can afford a new copy each year! :)
Customer Review: Lovely cards, fun play, wish there were more games though..
Summary: 4 Stars
I've been playing the online version of Quiddler for a while and was very excited to receive the cards as a gift. The cards are quite beautiful to look at (the Celtic manual script lettering is a very nice touch in contrast to conventional playing cards) as well as being fun (nice challenge to have a "q" by itself). They are printed on a decently sturdy paper but I don't recommend shuffling them by bending them.I enjoy the solitaire and the multiplayer game (plays a bit like Gin Rummy), but wish there are more variations. Since this is a deck of cards with letters on them, it seems to me that more than one game could be played with them and was disapointed that only one multi-player and one solitaire game was included with the cards.
But all in all, this is a great game for word game lovers. It's quick paced and rewards finding both many words and long words.
Customer Review: Quiddler is fast-paced, fun and challenging.
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been playing Quiddler for several months. This is a fast-paced game. It's a lot of fun and challenging too. The more you play the game, the more aware you become of words since the difficult letters, such as J, Z, Q, and V and W, have higher point values. I am admittedly very competitive when playing games. I find that as I am reading books or the newspaper, I focus on words that contain letters with the higher point values, then I try to use these new words when I am playing the game. What a wonderful way to increase your vocabulary and spelling capabilities. I recommend this game for kids as young as 4 or 5 but as a perennial kid ten times that age, I have a lot of fun playing Quiddler! This game should be in all of the classrooms too--let's get kids hooked on Quiddler--a great way to improve their English skills. Marie Wilson, Fountain Hills AZ