Bananagram Game

The Bananagram Game is a fast and fun word game that requires no pencil, paper or board. All you need is a table. One hand can be played in as little as five minutes.

It is a great for family fun as well as being educational. Bananagrams portability makes it perfect for travel. Just grab the pouch and go.
The game consists of 144 lettered tilesthat are placed face-down on the playing surface so that all the tiles appear identical.

A similar number of tiles are picked by each player, who turns the tiles over to see the lettered side.Every participant begins arranging the letters to form words.

While a player uses up all of his or her tiles, he or she calls out "peel," and each player must choose a new tile from the pool of remaining tiles, called the "bunch."

The name Bananagram is a play on the word anagrams as one must often rearrange the words one has already formed in order to allow newly chosen lettered tiles to be placed into ones grid.

If at any time throughout play, one has a letter or letters that he or she does not wish to fit into his or her word arrangement, he or she can exchange each letter for three tiles from the "bunch" and calling out "dump."

Play continues with players calling out "peel" when they again fit their tiles into their crossword-style word arrangements until a player calls "peel" and there are not enough remaining tiles in the "bunch" for all players to take one
the player who has positioned all of his tiles into his or her word arrangement calls out "bananas" and is declared the winner if all of his or her words are valid upon examination.

Players can rearrange their letters as often as they like, even letters they have already placed