AlphaBirds: First Edition

The fun, fast word game! We’re a tiny software company. Every Friday at 5 PM, we close our laptops, crack open a delicious beverage, and play a game. Sometimes it’s an old favorite like Bang!, Exploding Kittens or Catan. Other times it’s the latest Kickstarter we’ve backed. But for the past year, our go-to game has been one we made ourselves. It’s called AlphaBirds. AlphaBirds is a word-building game like Scrabble or Boggle, but faster and more fun. And it’s super easy to learn. Here are the basic mechanics:: You take two cards. Keep one, give one. Make words if you can. That’s it. When friends come over, we just start playing. Within 30 seconds, they get it. And the game is short — usually about 10 minutes. Yet the game is surprisingly deep. There’s real strategy to choosing where to play your letters, and it tends to self-balance. Usually everyone is close to winning at the end. It feels selfish to keep it to ourselves, so we’ve designed official instructions and printed a batch to