Last Word

BGG Geek Rating
5.5
based on 124 ratings
BGG Average Rating
5.7
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BGG Ranking
#21861
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Players
2-4
Weight
1.71/5.00
Playtime
90 min
Age
10+

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📖 About This Game

Last Word is a clever blend of Boggle and territory control, where wordplay meets tactical positioning. Played on a shared 10x10 grid filled with letter tiles and wilds, players take turns forming words by tracing adjacent letters—just like in Boggle—but instead of just writing them down, they remove the tiles they used. As the board slowly depletes, it gets trickier to find viable words. Players must balance scoring points with strategic sabotage, eyeing both high-value letters and positioning to cut off opponents. If you leave another player stranded—isolated with no word options—you score a sweet bonus. Players who can no longer form valid words are eliminated from the round. If Boggle had an evil twin who loved spatial warfare, this would be it. Like Upwords, Paperback, and WordSpiel, it rewards clever vocabulary—but here, it's survival of the wordiest. The game continues until someone reaches 50 points across multiple rounds, making Last Word both a test of vocabulary and spatial strategy.