Splot of Fun
INKLING
Designer: John Keyworth | Publisher: Osprey Games
There’s an art to making arty games. Finding the right to way to reward creative talents with arbitrary points can make or break a good word or drawing game. In word games, this often means that creating longer words with given letters is key. But what happens when instead, we’re given words and have to get creative with letters? Welcome to Inkling.
Over three rounds, players use a slowly growing hand of letters to spell out words from their dealt secret list of six. Each list will have three simple words, two slightly longer and one behemoth, worth one, two and three points respectively. If a player to your left or right guesses a word, you both score its points value, rewarding you for spelling and guessing equally. You’re limited to seven guesses for each neighbour and whoever has the highest score wins.