This is a great game for people who want a fresh new Scrabble type game. The first time i played, I hated it. I thought it was too hard to make any profit. But now I love it, and i am wanting to play nearly every night.

It's like investing, you see the letters and if you think you can make more money than you pay for them, then you buy them. Then you work on a word as you get more tiles, and then sell your words.

The difference between BuyWord and Scabble, is the lack of multiplying squares. In scrabble I usually beat my mum, because it's not necessary to create long words, you can still get big points by putting your word in a high scoring position. My mum is less tactical than me. But she is a better wordsmith than me, so she beats me in buyword more often than not.

She still is not as tactical as me in BuyWord, cause she nearly always buys her letters, and always wants to roll 5, and i prefer a lower amount of tiles because they cost less so i never reject them. You can also choose how many tiles to be picked, and force you opposition to have a go before the end of the round (if they have more than 8 tiles, they must play a word).

Highly recommended, but not for kids.

I don't write many reviews on this site, but after playing this game at GenCon (2004) I became quickly addicted and want to get the word out: this is an AMAZING game, every bit as good as Scrabble or Boggle, and it deserves to become an enduring family classic.

I'm fond of the 'draft' variant, but however you play it, the gameplay is simple and fast: spend money to draft tiles, then meld them to earn money by making bigger words. But because it's a never-before-printed design by the late, great Sid Sackson, everything is as perfectly calibrated as a fine watch. It took us three minutes to learn the rules, and then we couldn't stop playing.

If you don't like word games, you won't like this, of course. Me, I love them, and I plan to buy multiple copies of BuyWord to give to like-minded friends.