Ordleken Relax Board Game | BoardGames.com | Your source for everything to do with Board Games

Description

The object of Relax is to get rid of all the cards in your hand. Each card in the deck has a letter on it, or a wildcard.

One card is turned face up at the start. The next player has to make a word starting with that letter and constructed from the letters on the cards in his hand. The next player's word must start on the last letter of the first player's word, and so on.

The first player to get rid of all cards wins that round. All the other players get a score depending on what cards they have left. Uncommon letters have a low score, common ones have a higher score and wildcards are really expensive. The less points at the end, the better.

The distribution of letters on the cards is weighted for Swedish. On the whole it works well, but the letter "h" is surprisingly difficult to get rid of. There are very few Swedish words of a reasonable length that have "h" anywhere but first. On the other hand, "h" is cheap.