Razzle is a quick-thinking word game where you try to unscramble words of at least 4 letters. If adults and kids play, the kids can make 3-letter words. When you say and spell a word before your opponent does, you move the tray of letter cubes one space toward your goal. If you don't see any word, you can challenge your opponent and flip the 30-second timer. Then if your opponent doesn't come up with a word, you get to move the tray toward your goal. When you reach your goal (the end of the tray) you score a point. You can play to 10 or 5. There are score things on the edge of the board for convenience. We played to 5 only because I kept winning every time. We were done in just 10 minutes so then chose another game to play.
We switched to Triple Yahtzee for an hour and still didn't finish so gave up on this one. It's just rolling five dice and filling in the score sheet with different combinations. In triple Yahtzee, you actually play 3 games at once. The score sheet has three columns--the first is straight, the second doubles the score of the items and the third column triples the score of the items. You add all three column totals together and the high score wins. The highest item is a Yahtzee (50 pts.)--when all five dice show the same number. You have to add a lot in this game--total all dice for 3 of a kind, 4 of a kind, chance, and the total of same numbers that are rolled; for example, if you go for 4s and roll 3, you would score 12 points.
Which game would you like better? Have you played either one? I prefer Razzle but my husband didn't like either one. It's small enough that you could even take it to a restaurant to play while waiting for your food.
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We used to play Yahtzee a long time ago but it has long since disappeared!
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