Produktbeschreibung
A game that tests your strategic skills and knowledge of everyday words. Each game is a fascinating, humor-filled journey into the story of words, a trip you and your friends will want to take time and again. 2-8 players or teams.
"One of the best word games of all time"...Home Education Magazine
"The Best new word game"...Games Magazine
"A Top 10 game"...Chicago Tribune
"Your favorite word nerd will flip over this game"...Boston Globe
"Bethump'd has won rave reviews from critics and our staff alike"...The Discovery Channel
"We can't leave it alone, it's terrific!"...Home Education Magazine
"A favorite from our top 10"...Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"This game is sure to intrigue language and history buffs"...Parenting for High Potential Magazine
TO PLAY
Draw at random one card from the deck of Game Word cards and put the letters of its Game Word in the blocks at the top of the score pad. The objective of the game is to earn each of the letters of the Game Word and be the first player to get back to the Starting Block.
Players earn letters of the Game Word by rolling the die, correctly answering a question drawn from the level of difficulty equal to the die's value (i.e., Levels I, II, III, IV, V, or VI), and moving along the alphabetized playing track. A correct answer allows the player to move to any space up to the value of the question. For example, a correct answer to a Level VI question allows the player to move 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 spaces.
To earn a letter of the Game Word the player must land on its space.
WARNING! Opponents who land on your space have the right to move you to any other space on the playing track! The most devious of these will move you as far as possible from the letters you need.
To win the game, earn all the letters of the Game Word and be the first to get back to the Starting Block.
SAMPLE QUESTIONS
Question from many categories out of linguistics, covering Accents to Word Origins, are arranged in six levels of difficulty. This is a sampling from each level.
Level I HOMOPHONES Identify the homophones in this sentence: "If she has her ___ and eats all the curds and ___ Ms Muffet might ___ enough to mash her tuffet."
Level II ACCENTS What do Australians mean when they make a statement that sounds like "Scona rine"?
Level III BORROWED WORDS In 1947, what bathing suit did the French name after an atoll in the Marshall Islands because its impact on viewers is that of an atomic bomb?
Level IV PORTMANTEAU WORDS What word did Lewis Carroll coin in 1871 by blending the words chuckle and snort?
Level V EPONYMS In 1783, Etienne de Silhouette, France's pugnacious controller of finances, gave English the word silhouette as a result of fame gained from which of the following?
a. his massive, Hitchcock-like profile
b. his fleeting, short-lived tenure in office
c. his quick, light-fingered tendencies
Level VI HISTORY What famous lexicographer quite seriously lobbied Congress to enforce the spelling of tough as t-u-f and women as w-i-m-m-e-n?
ANSWERS
I. way/whey/weigh
II. "It's going to rain"
III. bikini
IV. chortle
V. his fleeting, short-lived tenure in office
VI. Noah Webster |
