Speedeebee!

By Blue Orange Games
Price $14.99
Age 7 +

Speedeebee! keeps players immersed in nimble-minded word fun, with all players happily engaged every step of the way. There's no turn-taking. Just read a challenge from one of the cards, roll the alphabet dice and go. Any player can answer, and the first one who correctly does so wins the card. Get it wrong and you have to give up a card previously won. The player with the most cards at the end of each 20-card game is the winner. There are 50 cards in all (a total of 150 different challenges) and 4 alphabet dice, some or all of which are rolled each time. The challenges are nicely doable and wildly diverse (Name a city containing one of these letters . . ., Name a cartoon character containing none of these letters . . ., Find a word containing this letter twice . . .). As a result, the game moves swiftly, with all players hunting inwardly for a word that intersects the challenge with the required letters. That's part of Speedeebee's beauty - that there is no one correct answer. Its diversity, ease of play, speed, and all-hands-on-deck game play mean everyone's on their toes, brains whirring, from start to finish. For 2 to 6 players.