If you have ever sat at a scrabble game and wondered when the other players were going to finally finish their turns so you could get around to your play, then you will find Bananagrams an imminently satisfying game. You are playing, making words from letter tiles, for the entire game.

A Scrabble-like game without the board — much like Pick Two!. Using a selection of letter tiles, each player works independently to create their own ‘crossword’. When a player uses up all their letters, all players take a new tile from the pool. When all the tiles are gone, the first player to use up all the tiles in their hand wins.

the game Bananagrams grew from a passionate love of word games. Obsessed by all the word games that could be found, we all hankered after something a bit more fluid than the classics we all love and wanted a game that the family could play together – ALL ages at the same time. We sought something portable, that we could take with us on our various travels and simple enough (with no superfluous pieces or packaging) that we could play in restaurants while waiting for our food. We love that one hand can be played in as little as five minutes, but as it’s so addictive, it’s often hard to put away!

There are 144 lettered tiles, each player picks a quantity from the pile; then play begins as soon as someone declares “split”! This is a fun, fast paced word game, playable, with simple rules. Yet the game is complex enough to hold the interest of the deepest word-game fanatic.