I bought this game because I remembered how much fun it was as a child. What I didn't realized is that it is a great game for adults to play with children of different levels. My husband and I play like Scrabble, looking for long words. My stepdaughter (13yo) looks for tricky ways to create 2 words at once (she once made 3 new words by putting a new word between two other words - talk about points!). My stepson (12) has a limited spelling skills (underachiever) but by changing the words he can really rack up the points and keep up with the rest of us. It's helping us teach him more too. Great game!

This is my favorite game. Scrabble is an excellent game that I have played for years. Scrabble relies on the point value of letters and expanding on words placed on the board. UpWords allows you to change words, again and again. For instance star can become starve, starving, starting, flashing, crashing. And when you add to two or three words simultaneously, the points go soaring! I like it better because you need to be creative and strategic. After a few games, we learned that placing small words (3, 4 or 5 letters max) provides the most opportunity for an interesting game that goes upwards effectively and uses up the majority of the board. You cannot think Scrabble minded when playing this game as with Scrabble you think of long, high point words. Toward the end when you start stacking on multiple words, the point values for words increase significantly with minor word changes. Great Game!

This games scoring is too confusing. My friends fought over it for 25 minutes. and then they just put the game away. I'm not so sure what was worse the rampent testosterone or the confusion of the actual scoring. As I write this i am being told to email the company and ask how to score it. Ridiculous. there is something wrong with this game and my friend mike.

Upwards is a really fun word game. It's different and quicker than Scrabble, but you still must think. If you like scrabble, you'll like Upwards. My only complaint is the "qu" tile - it doesnt allow you to make words like qat.

I'm an avid Scrabble player, and Upwords was billed as, and appeared to be, a more complex version of Scrabble. I should've known better; you don't try to remake a classic. Because the board is smaller, players are more limited. Because new words are just variations (of spelling) on early-placed words, the players are limited. The addition of the third dimension to the board has appeal -- from a distance. The end result is a smaller, limited version of Sxcrabble, that gets old fast.