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2021 Ranked #18,466

Pazzaparola

This themed word game has players draft letter cards, build the highest-valued related word, and score three round wins. You can use any letters in a word, but held letters increase its value, rewarding a careful draft.

Card Game Children's Game Closed Drafting Score-and-Reset Game

Players

3-8

Play time

20-30 min

Age

8+

Complexity

1/5

Rating

6.70

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.1/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.8/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.2/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

This game is really simple to play, even for players who don’t love word games at all. It's super easy to compose a word related to the theme: you can use all the letters you want, not only the ones in your hand, and creativity and puns are welcome!

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This game is really simple to play, even for players who don’t love word games at all. It's super easy to compose a word related to the theme: you can use all the letters you want, not only the ones in your hand, and creativity and puns are welcome! No frustration in sight! Of course, you must try to find a word that grants you a higher score than your opponents’! At the start of the game the Theme is revealed and you receive 8 Letter Cards: 1 - Choose the Letter you like and pass the others to the player at your left 2 - Repeat point 1 until there are no more cards to pass. Receive from the right, pick one, pass to the left. Easy, right? 3 - Compose a word related to the Theme, using as many of your Letters as you can! The player who finds the word with the highest value wins the current round and scores 1 point. When a player scores the third point, the game ends and that player wins the game. If 2 or more player find a word with the same value, they all score 1 point. If 2 or more players reach the third point in the same round, they share the victory (this happens rarely).

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Play and group

Players
3–8
Best with
3–8
Play time
20–30 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.0/5
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Credits

Designers

1
Danilo Festa

Artists

1
Sara Gioria

Publishers

2
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