Qwordie

Qwordie is a crazy frankenstein creation of a quiz and a word game stitched together with a bizarre fixation on platypuses. Only slightly weird then.

In Qwordie the aim of the game is to try and collect enough letters on your stack to reach a certain hight  (depending on how long you want the game to take). But how do you do that, I hear you cry. Well, at the start of the game you draw 5 letter tiles and each turn you get the choice to either choose one letter tile from the communal pool (which starts at 15 tiles) and put it in to your hand. However, if there is nothing you want from the pool, then you can randomly take two tiles from the box, putting one into your hand and the other into the pool. The round ends when someone can spell from the letters in their hand an answer to question card that everyone is working towards. If the person correctly spells it, they can add all the letters they used to their stack, and you draw another question card. However, you keep your letter tiles, so even if you didn't win this question, you are more prepared for the next one.

So, Qwordie is definitely not a heavy game, it will probably only take 20 to 30 minutes and those you could play with little focus. Although, it does require some trivia knowledge to play, as the hard questions aren't necessarily easy. I do like how to you have the decision between whether you choose the safe but probably not best option of taking from the pool, but you could push your luck and try to get the tiles you really need but you risk getting nothing you need at all.

However, from all this, it makes the game just 'meh'. I mean it isn't amazingly fun, but if I was on a desert island I would play it. I think that that sentence describes the game as a whole, although I would suggest it to those who like trivia and things like that. I am going to give this game a 5/10 and urge you to spend your hard earned money on something just a bit more entertaining.