Description

The LINGO deck consists of 54 playing cards. Each contains a letter and a number 1-11.

Each player is dealt 3 cards, and in a turn a player either plays 1-3 cards to the table to form a word, or draws 1 card and discards 1 card.

The cards in the center form a 5x5 array. With the first word played, one of the cards is designated as the center of the square. After the first word, each word must use all the cards played and at least one card already on the table. Consecutive letters in a word must be adjacent in any direction, orthogonal or diagonal, but the word as a whole may zigzag and change directions. It's like the array from Big Boggle, built up gradually with cards rather than dice.

Each word scores like this: letters already on the board score their printed value, letters played from the hand are double their value, unless they are played to a corner of the square, or are the last cards played in the square, in which case their value is tripled.

Their is also a solitaire game: one plays cards in a row, one at a time, and when a set of consecutive cards make a word, they are made into a single pile with any of those letters on the top. If all the cards can be combined into a single pile at the end, one wins.

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