Keywords - New Words from an Old Keyboard.

 
Keywords is a two-player game to test your wordpower against an opponent.  It needs quick thinking, cunning and a little help from Lady Luck to triumph.  The rules have evolved over a number of plays and it is really an entertaining game to play at home or on a journey.  This Instructable tells you how to make a set out of entirely recycled / repurposed items. 

A single round may take from 5 seconds to over twenty minutes.  A full match is up to a set number of points.  First to 30 will give you a game of an hour or so.

It will take a while to get familiar with the rules, but it is worth it.  If you like word-games you'll love this.

Step 1 Putting your KeyWords game together.

   
To make your KeyWords set, you will need an old keyboard. A laptop keyboard is not suitable for this and some types of desktop keyboard are better than others - see later.  The keyboard I used initially had mushed up ceiling tile drop into it after a flood in an office.

You will also need a bag to keep the game in and to draw letters from.  I found the ideal thing in the cupboard under the sink.  This was a mesh drawstring bag which comes with tablet form washing powder.  We had a couple spare. 

The other essentials are a 30 second hourglass timer from another game and a pad and pencil to keep score.

Comments

[tilmen]

Cool (and new).Thanx

[matrix828]

Brilliant! i love the idea of using an old jeyboard to play games....where did that broken keyboard go...?
5* and faved

[Jayefuu]

Looks good! Will finish reading the rules when I'm less tired :)