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Alpha Blitz is a word game designed by Mike Selinker and published by Wizards of the Coast. Players make words using the letter cards on the table as many times as they like (e.g., LENS can become SENSELESSNESS). "Blitzes" (lightning bolt cards) destroy letters and bring the game toward conclusion. Word games can be of several different types: Letter arrangement games, where the goal is to form words out of given letters: Anagrams -- both a simple game of rearranging letters and a linguistic recreation of making anagrams that seem to illuminate something about the original word, such as dog for... A game designer whose design credits include Pirates of the Spanish Main and Fightball with James Ernest, Axis & Allies Revised with Larry Harris, and Risk Godstorm. ... Wizards of the Coast (often referred to as WotC or simply Wizards) is a publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes. ...


Alpha Blitz was Games Magazine's 1998 Word Game of the Year. GAMES Magazine is a United States-based magazine devoted to games and puzzles, and is published by GAMES Publications, a division of Kappa Publishing Group. ...


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