Steal (Word Game)

Steal is a fast and furious new letter game of cunning, treachery andoutright theft! A hugely exciting game from New Zealand, with all letter tilescontained in a handy mask-shaped fabric bag, allowing it to be played almostanywhere. Steal is suitable for 28 players of all ages, easy to learn butmore difficult to master.

Play proceeds by flipping tiles (every 23 seconds), with players callingout and forming three+ letter words from the exposed letters. As the gameproceeds, the aim then is to steal words from your opponents by adding one ormore letters. So pin might be stolen as pain, and stolen again as inapt, thenpliant, implant, platinum, manipulate, planetarium, perambulating etc! Allthe while other words are of course being formed and stolen.

The set contains ten coloured STEAL letters which double the score of theword, so the highest scores are always obtained by assembling/stealing longwords containing a coloured letter. Play is further enhanced by the mask (joker)tile which can be any letter you want (& can change as the word isstolen).

Flipping stops while words are being assembled (with the last assembler beingnext to flip) but stealing does not. So often a word is stolen whilst it isbeing formed with the addition of an already-exposed new letter! Frustrating andhilarious at the same time, bringing out the competitive streak of everyone whoplays. Once all letters are flipped and no more words can be made orstolenthe scores are counted up to find the winner.