Ever since the hit word game Scrabble came out way back when, people have always been trying to make new variations on the game. Bananagrams added more entertainment to the game, Hexalex changed the shape of the tiles to hexagons, and Words with Friends, Wordfeud, Scrabble, and countless other games brought the game online. But now, 3DX is adding a whole new dimension to the traditional game. Literally.
As you can see in the images above, all of the 212 tiles in 3DX have grooves and inverse grooves so that you can connect them in any way; including vertically. That way, when you can't find any high-scoring horizontal words, you can just make one going vertically. And an element of physics is added to this game; you can't make the tiles topple.
Interestingly, the game doesn't include instructions (except for basic guidelines and scoring suggestions), which lets you decide what the rules will be. "Kids want to make up their own rules, to do things their way. They want to play the same game in as many different ways as they can invent and then come back the next day and find ten new ways to play," ThinkGeek says on the product description. It seems like the creators wanted to let people be creative in this version of Scrabble; not only can you build vertically, the rules and the scoring strategies are up to you.
