Orthocon: The Definitive Word Game Board Game | BoardGames.com | Your source for everything to do with Board Games

Description

Players roll and move on a board, answering spelling and word-definition questions to advance. The player that reaches one of the final spaces and correctly answers that final challenge is the winner.

There are three colors on the board corresponding to "cowardly" (yellow), "bold" (blue), and "superhuman" (red) levels of word difficulty (plus black spaces, which end a player's turn immediately). A player landing on a colored space must correctly spell AND define a word from a card corresponding to that color. If a player does both, they may roll (2 dice) and advance again to answer another challenge. If they get one part wrong, they must roll 1 die and move backward that amount (and their turn ends). If they get both wrong, they must roll 2 dice and move backward that amount (and their turn ends).