Sliders Word Game

Slide and meld fragments into words in this lasercut word game. The game components include 144 letter, bigram and trigram tiles, each with a point value and a gameboard with angular stands.

Setup:

 Assemble the board with the stands
 Shuffle and scatter the tiles face down in a random pile
 Grab 30 tiles and randomly stack face up within the slots
     2 players:    30 tiles
     3 players:    50 tiles
     4 players:    70 tiles
     5+ players:    90 tiles

 Reserve a pile of face down tiles in a draw pile as per the number of players:
 Set the remaining tiles aside and out of sight.

Game Play:

 Pull one tile from the bottom of any column, letting the tiles in the column slide down.
 Add a tile from the draw pile face up to the top of same column, except when there is only one tile left which is placed face down as the game-ending mystery tile.
 Attempt to make a word from two or more of your tiles.
 When made, place your word in a separate collection pile.

Ending the Game: The game ends when someone pulls the face down mystery tile. That player gets to use that tile to form a word, if possible. At this point the game ends.

—description from the designer