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Description

Game kit that consists of a deck of sixty cards. Each card contains a number from one to five and two letters of the alphabet: a red letter and a black letter. To find games to play with the deck, one is referred to the publisher's web site.

The publisher recommends three games for starters:
Uncover Story - Using the mechanisms from the solitaire game Freecell players use the cards to make words.
RummyEdit - Players are dealt seven cards each and must make words using letters of either color. Players can steal each other's words Anagrams-style.
Blitzwords - Each player is dealt a card and two cards are place on table of all to see. the first player to call out a three-letter word using those cards available scores.

Rules for over one hundred games are available for download at the publisher's web site. Players are encouraged to design and submit their own designs.