I love word games and I love the portability of this Banagrams word game that's currently on offer at Play.com
So the age recommendation for this game is seven years onwards, well I don't buy into that one bit! I started playing Scrabble - which Banagrams is very similar too - when I was about five, I used to play it with my grandparents and I learned LOTS!
There are 144 letter tiles which are contained in a rather amusing banana skin. You don't need a board, just a flat surface to play on which makes it easy to take out and about with you.
You can play with between two and eight players and each player takes a certain number of tiles. They are placed face down until someone shouts 'SPLIT!' Everyone turns their tiles over and has to make connecting words with their letters (think of everyone playing Scrabble on their own with their letters).
Then someone shouts 'PEEL!' and everyone has to take another letter from the banana and add it to their words. You can rearrange your words and letters as often as you like to accomodate the new letters and the person who uses all their letters first must shout 'BANANA!' and they win.
It sounds like there's lots of laughs to be had with Bananagrams,is a great way to spend time with your kids and teach them a thing or two along the way, all in the name of FUN!
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