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Customers enjoy the game’s concept and find it fun to play. They find it easy to learn and perfect for a short session. The directions are straightforward.
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A quick rundown of this product’s key features:
🎁 Fun and Learning in One Game – Letter Tycoon is a must-have for word game enthusiasts. Its engaging gameplay and captivating design bring family and friends together for memorable, mind-challenging fun, perfect for any occasion.
Mensa Select Award-Winning Strategy: Dive into the world of Letter Tycoon, a Mensa Select Winner, where you build words, buy letters, and score big to create your alphabet empire. Perfect for 2-5 players, aged 10+, it’s the ideal blend of fun and strategy for game nights.
Engaging Gameplay: Experience the thrill of constructing words using 7-card hands and 3 community cards. Earn money and stocks for your creations, and buy letter patents for royalties. The player with the most valuable alphabet empire wins!
Educational and Fun: Letter Tycoon isn’t just entertaining; it’s a brain-boosting game that enhances vocabulary and strategic thinking. Ideal for both native and non-native English speakers, it’s a must-have for word game enthusiasts.
💎 Crafted for Elegance– Experience the tactile pleasure of wooden money chips and elegantly crafted cards with a linen finish. The steampunk-inspired artwork adds a sophisticated touch, making this game a striking addition to your collection.
Replay Value: With a vast array of possible word combinations and strategic patent acquisition, Letter Tycoon offers immense replayability. It’s a game that will keep you and your friends engaged for countless rounds, making it a staple for any game library.
Our Top Reviews
Reviewer: Daniel Myers
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fun Scrabble-esque game
Review: We recently tried this game for the first time at a local board game convention. There was a possibility of winning the game just for having played it, but someone else was the lucky one. This only left one reasonable option… buy the game! It was sold out at our local gaming store, so we ordered here on Amazon.It’s a light word building card game, where you get more points (in game: money) for building bigger words. You can buy “patents” for letters, so every time someone else uses that specific letter you get a buck from the bank. The more common the letter in the card deck, similar to Scrabble, the more it costs, and you can only buy a letter if you played it that turn. There are no “gotcha” mechanics – you never take letters or money from fellow players. The closest is that there are a few face up cards in the center which any player may use to help build their words, and fairly frequently other players will grab the one that you need to make an absolutely smashing word! Really long words can max out the spending cash, but you still get “stocks”, which is money that’s scored at the end of the game, but you can’t spend it – a simple mechanic to making sure folks don’t run away with the game, leaving no letters for anyone else to buy.The rarer letters (j, q, z, etc.) have special abilities, like “you can build two words” or “double points if your word has only one vowel” which can really turn the game in your favor with careful play, assuming you’re lucky enough to get them. In the end, your score is every “dollar” you earned, so there is no real downside to buying letter patents.Younger kids can play, but a limited vocabulary and spelling ability might make it too challenging for some. It’s hard to put an age on it. I was playing Scrabble at eight or ten years old, but I wasn’t winning Scrabble often back then.That was too much description, but the tl:dr is… this is a great game! Simple, fast, easy to learn and play so long as you kinda know how to spell, and most importantly, fun.
Reviewer: nancy
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Such a Fun Word Game!
Review: I love this game. It challenges your mind but it also is fun because there is more going on than just building words. As you build a word you are “paid” for the size of the word. If you have enough money, you can purchase one patent from a letter you used. Each time opponents use that letter the bank pays you a dollar. The challenge of course is creating the longest word possible to collect the most money and stock. The fun is in several layers.
Reviewer: Tarot Aficionado
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good for Summer School
Review: My students in remedial reading loved this one. It helped them spell in a way that didn’t make them groan and hate me. They also gained valuable social and emotional skills. A big win. 😁
Reviewer: Misti Edwards
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Different word game
Review: Really enjoyed the concept of this word game. A great game for the value, you use cards to create words in the hopes of securing patents. Super easy to learn and the directions are straightforward. Shipped on time and packaged to arrive without damage.
Reviewer: Just a guy
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Awesome Game
Review: So much fun to play!
Reviewer: J. Davis
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fun
Review: We’re a family that likes word-based games, and we’ve enjoyed this one. I think some of the letter special abilities are unbalanced (K and Z in particular are very strong, if I recall correctly, while Q is pretty weak). And naming the bonus victory points “stocks” seems needlessly confusing, since they do nothing in the game. But it’s still fun and a game doesn’t take all that long, so it’s perfect to whip out for a short session.
Reviewer: J R
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Scrabble + Monopoly
Review: Think a cross between Scrabble and Monopoly. Try to make words with the letters in your hand plus three on the table. The longer the word, the more coins. Use the coins to buy patents on letters and if someone uses a letter you have a patent on, you get paid. And then add in some complexities, such as stocks and patents with special abilities.It was an interesting game and one we might put in our rotation, but I don’t think it will make our most popular family games. It’s not a game you veg out to after a long week, but when one wants a bit more thinking than many games, it’s good for that.Received free through Vine, but the rating is all mine.
Reviewer: SocialReader
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Scrabble meets Monopoly
Review: I bought this game as an enrichment activity for my English III students, since it allows them to put their vocabulary skills into practice.They LOVE this game, and played for the entirety of the 90 minute block.I only have one, so I’m buying a couple more because the kids playing Scrabble, which they also like, were really intrigued about game.
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