Quiddler
by SET Enterprises Inc.
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Toys and Games Reviews of Quiddler
Customer Review: Fun Constructing Words
Summary: 5 Stars
When I first saw this card game my thought was, "Like Scrabble, but with cards", and I've never been a big fan of Scrabble. But Quiddler is a whole lot more fun than Scrabble. Players are dealt cards, 3 in the first hand, 4 in the next, up to 10 in the last hand. The idea is to use all the cards in your hand to make a word, or words, which together use all your cards. Players draw and discard until someone can do so, then the remaining players get one last chance to draw and use as many cards as they can. Scoring is based on the point value of each card used, with more uncommon letters worth more points.
Reading my description may not be exciting, but the game is just plain fun. Builds your vocabulary too!
Customer Review: Boring and overly simplistic for talented Scrabble players; likely fun for kids though
Summary: 3 Stars
I am a huge fan of Scrabble. I bought Quiddler so my girlfriend and I could play it together, thinking it would be Scrabble-like. Unfortunately, for seasoned Scrabble players who know most 2-letter words in the Scrabble dictionary (ab, mu,mi, xu, ...) this game is boring: the reason is that one can do a "lay down" of all their cards on the first or second turn practically every time. If you are a Scrabble player who regularly scores in the high 300s and who knows a lot of 2-letter and 3-letter words, I doubt you will enjoy this game, because it is all luck and no strategy.
However, for kids, or others who don't know the many 2-letter and 3-letter words in the Scrabble Dictionary, this game may indeed be fun.
Customer Review: COMPLETE PACKAGE
Summary: 5 Stars
Where else can the kids have a blast and try to build the longest and most "point valued" word? Nowhere. Our girls, ages 7 and 8 love this game!!! It is competitive, engaging and educational. It also gets them using the dictionary to make sure that words are "real" words when an adult is not around. They learn the concept of spelling, point value, competition and have a great time all together. A really fabulous game. You will never get the same cards two times in a game with 118 cards to go around. Teaches them the concept of math also when it comes to the idea of adding the point value of each letter and then comparing the values with the other kids. You can also play up to eight kids. Fabulous game for the money.
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Customer Review: A great Card Game for Adults too!
Summary: 5 Stars
Quiddler is very similar to Scrabble and played with the Quiddler deck of cards.
I live in a 55+ community and everyone that has been introduced to Quiddler goes
out and buys the game. People have carried it back home to England, Canada etc.
It is a fun game to play with your peers, friends, children and grandchildren. Teachers will find it a great way to engage children in developing spelling,grammar,dictionary and creative skills.
I strongly suggest you order the 3 Decks special from Amazon as you will want to
give it out as gifts. If you were given 7 cards, each one having one of the following letters on it, f h v n a u e, what two words could you make. HAVE FUN! figuring it out.
Customer Review: Fun for all ages!
Summary: 5 Stars
This game was so fun! Once we figured out the best way to create a score sheet we were off and running. I played this game with friends whose ages ranged from 14 - 70 and it was very interesting the types of words people came up with. It's like Scrabble, except it's with cards and there are only 8 rounds. Each round you get one more card. The words are no longer than 5 letters long and the best part is being able to use a dictionary when it's not your turn. In the last round we started helping eachother to see if we could use up all of our card to score more points. I recommend this to anyone (especially those who like to play card games). There's even a Solitaire(sp?) version which is very fun too.