Game profile

Foil

A Card Game and Word Game game for 2–4 players, of 60 min and light on rules. It plays with real-time, spelling and action timer. Recommended from age 10. The BoardGameGeek community likes it best with 4 players.

Foil is a word card game in which players draw and discard letter cards until one player can make words using all the cards in his or her hand. All players then shuffle the letters of words they have made and then have five minutes to unscramble the words of their opponents. Players score for words they have made, opponents' words unscrambled, and for forming words that no opponent unscrambles. Belongs to both the 3M Bookshelf Series and the 3M Gamette Series The game comes with 4 plastic card trays for holding draw and discard decks, a sand hourglass for tracking time, and 108 Letter Cards with alphabet letters varying in usage frequency based on the English language.

Designed by Frederick A. Herschler

Published by 3M

No Spanish edition. Only available imported and in another language.