This word game is delightfully strategic. The tiles link together and also stack upon one another, so you can build out from existing words, or up (like "Upwords") to change an existing word into a new one. There's no scoring until the end of the game, so no pencils, no paper. There's no gameboard necessary, since the tiles link together so perfectly. It is very convenient to take on holiday. It's made very well. Tiles come in lovely bags. You score by having your color tile at the top of a letter stack, so things change a lot as other folks build words. This is a wonderful product. One more key feature - each player gets the exact same letter mix, so no one complains about drawing a faulty tile. Very fair. One note: The "tile banking" rule is extraneous, and we simply ignore it.