WildWords Game Company

About

WildWords is a one-person operation run by Peter Roizen, who lists himself on the site as inventor, publisher, web master and shipping clerk of the game. WildWords is a Scrabble-style crossword tile game whose distinguishing mechanics are a dozen asterisk wild tiles that can stand for any sequence of letters rather than a single letter, twenty turn-to-wild board squares, a 40-point bonus for playing all seven tiles, four penalty squares, and a tile-dump-and-redraw rule, all intended to reward long creative seven-tile plays over memorised short words. The physical board game was originally sold…