Sliders Word Game

Slide and meld fragments into words in this lasercut word game. The game components include 144 letter, bigram and trigram tiles, each with a point value and a gameboard with angular stands. Setup: Assemble the board with the stands Shuffle and scatter the tiles face down in a random pile Grab 30 tiles and randomly stack face up within the slots 2 players: 30 tiles 3 players: 50 tiles 4 players: 70 tiles 5+ players: 90 tiles Reserve a pile of face down tiles in a draw pile as per the number of players: Set the remaining tiles aside and out of sight. Game Play: Pull one tile from the bottom of any column, letting the tiles in the column slide down. Add a tile from the draw pile face up to the top of same column, except when there is only one tile left which is placed face down as the game-ending mystery tile. Attempt to make a word from two or more of your tiles. When made, place your word in a separate collection pile. Ending the Game: The game ends when someone pulls the face down mystery tile. That player gets to use that tile to form a word, if possible. At this point the game ends. —description from the designer