Upwords

Upwords is a board game invented by Elliot Rudell and published by Hasbro. The game is similar to Scrabble, except that letters can be stacked on top of other words to create new words. The higher the stack of letters, the more points are scored. This often makes words built in later turns of the game more valuable than earlier words, increasing play intensity. The game is available in about twenty languages. Hasbro has recently licensed electronic marketing rights to Microsoft, making it available electronically for the first time since AOL bought Games.com and withdrew the game. There have been national tournaments played in Hungary and Turkey. Players draw letter tiles until they have seven tiles on their racks. The first player forms a word that covers one or more of the central squares. After forming a word, the player draws more tiles to replenish their rack. Play continues to the left. Subsequent plays may put tiles on the board and on top of tiles already played, so long... full article at wikipedia