Ten Dollar Words

Designer: Amabel HollandHex Number: 81Duration: 30 minutesPlayers: 2-4Solitaire Suitability: LowTheme: WordsMSRP: $20.00 Ten Dollar Words is the auction word game where you use letters to make words to bid on letters to make more words, sometimes with the same letters! On your go, you’ll put up one of four lots for auction. Each player uses their letter tiles to make a word. Each tile has a Live side – with a dollar value – and a Dead side – without, and this determines the value of their bid. When you win an auction, any Live letters you used are flipped to their Dead side but remain in your available pool, to which you add the letters just won: you’ll always have access to them but they won’t contribute to the bid total. At the end of the game, everyone uses the letters they’ve accumulated to make one last word, and the most valuable word wins the game. The value of a lot depends on the letters in it and their utility in making new words, but also on which of those letters entered th