Description

Word-Opsy is a game of forming words from individual letters on cards. It has two decks, each of which 4 of each vowel (1 of the 4 having a star), 2 of each common consonant, and 1 each for the six rarer consonants. There are rules for three games:

In Word-Opsy, in each turn a player lays down a word from the hand, or adds cards to one of their existing words (in either case refilling the hand back up to 6 cards), or draws a card and passes. After the last card is drawn and everyone gets an extra turn, each word scores the square of its length, with every star in it adding the word's value again.

Word-Rummy plays like Word-Opsy except that players discard a card at the end of their turn, and do not draw if they pass. The games ends when one player plays all the cards from their hand. Scoring is as in Word-Opsy with the player going out getting a 25-point bonus.

Word-Cassino plays like Casino, where a turn is taking a card from the hand and either: making a word with it and cards on the table to claim those cards; adding it to cards on the table and announcing a word to be finished later in the round; or adding it to the table cards. After the deck is played out, the player with the most cards gets 3 points, the most vowels gets 1 point, and 1 point for each Q, Z, or star card. Hands are played until a player has 21 points or more.

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