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2012 Ranked #12,885

Wordaround

Speed word-recognition game has players decipher circularly printed words before opponents and collect cards as points. Rotated layouts make familiar words difficult to spot, rewarding quick visual parsing under pressure.

Card Game Children's Game Pattern Recognition

Players

2-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

10+

Complexity

1/5

Rating

6.02

Harder to teach Low interaction Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.7/5

High replayability

Interaction 1.3/5

Low interaction

Player scaling 4.6/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 3.9/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

In WordAround, players try to discover and read words written in a circle on round cards before their opponents. The players who guesses it correctly gets the card as a point. Whoever has more cards at the end of the game wins. The game includes 100 cards with 300 words.

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–6
Best with
2
Play time
30 min
Age
10+
Complexity
1.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

2
Joe Herbert Dave Herbert

Artists

2
Joe Herbert Dave Herbert

Publishers

2
HCM Kinzel ThinkFun

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