Educational Insights Wordical, Word Game for Kids, Ages 8+, 2-8 Players

I bought this with my students in mind who struggle with phonics. I introduced it, played a handful of games to get them use to it, and now they play on their own. Not a day goes by that my students want to play WORDICAL...It seems top be the request of every day, every period.I do think it helps with phonics and word building. I place a dictionary on the table and made some score sheets. It reminds me of Words with Friends. I think it's a simple, fun game, and it holds their interest while learning! I've noticed as time has passed, my students are trying to build longer words now.

I played this game with a group ages 40+ through 7. We all had fun. We ignored the rule about the first person to come up with a word gets the points and just gave everyone points for their words. Winner has the most points at the end of 5 rounds. We all had fun trying to help each other come up with the highest point word with your cards. It was great learning for the youngest two kids (8 and 7) and even fun for the older players. Its similar to scrabble with cards.

Having a son will difficulties spelling this has been fun for him and a great way to get him wanting to learn

It's educational and quick game for learning word spelling by using dices and cards.

After small group lessons that finish early, ten minutes is all you need to play this game, and the kids ask to play it. It gives opportunities to apply our spelling patterns and knowledge, use the dictionary to look up words (especially Z and Q words), and it is increasing our vocabulary. I play also, and the kids love to win over the teacher.

Fun game if you love words

This game I can play with my first grade students through my 8th grade students. I just challenge them in different ways. They pick this game a lot on their fun Fridays.

We got this as a family game and have enjoyed it, up to a point. The object is to think of a person, place, thing in a category written on the cards, as you flip them over, and when a symbol matches another player's card. The other players all know what their category is, having flipped their cards previously. So...when the next card is turned, and the symbols match another player...the opponent already has an answer to shout out. The "flipper," however...needs to 1) identify the matching symbol, 2) read their category, and 3) think of a person, place, thing to match, all in a very short amount of time. Meanwhile, the other player is ready with an answer immediately. I may not have explained it well - so I hope you can understand my thinking. As a parent with small kids, I can decide to "slow down" my own thinking, and allow my kids to process a response. Great concept...one minor flaw.