Zip-It is a two player game in which each player gets 12 letter cubes (dice with letters on all sides) and then
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Coincidentally, I have been recently thinking that it would be neat to make a game with letter cubes, like in Boggle, except that the player would get to choose which side to use. The cube aspect of Zip-It is tantalizing. Imagine playing Bananagrams with letter cubes. I imagine that there might be a lot of head-tilting to look at cubes from the sides. If you don't like one of the face-up letters, you could just rotate it until you found a letter that you liked. But is that the fastest method? I really want to play this right now and find out!
Oh-Spell! is the first card game from Bananagrams International. It sounds somewhat like Quiddler
I will report back when I have more details on these games.
Zip-It and Oh-Spell! should be available in a few months.
UPDATE: OK, these games were not released by the summer, as I had expected. Oh-Spell has been delayed indefinitely, but Zip-It is now out. Get it while it's hot!