Bananagrams

Portable letter frenzy

Bananagrams is a word game where players race to build crossword grids from letter tiles, working simultaneously rather than taking turns.

The game comes in a banana-shaped pouch.

Unlike Scrabble, there's no board and no scoring—speed determines the winner: We played Bananagrams on the train.

gameplay

Scrabble

Tile-based word game

grid · crossword · spelling · vocabulary · speed · race · pouch · peel · dump · split

wordplay

Jumble

Anagram-solving newspaper game

rearrange · spelling · vocabulary · dictionary · Balderdash · wordsmith

Categories
Opposites
game pace and structure

BananagramsScrabble

Tile-based word game

chess · Go · crossword puzzles · Trivial Pursuit · Monopoly

complexity and difficulty

Bananagramschess

Strategic board game

Go · bridge · Dungeons & Dragons · challenging · difficult

game format/portability

Bananagramsarcade games

Quarter-fed video amusements

Family

program, bananas, diagram, banana, telegram, epigram, gram, monogram, grams

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G