Bananagrams

Bananagrams.

Enough said right? Maybe not. In case you don't know what it is, it's one of my new favorite games of time right now. It's life Scrabble, wait... it's sooo much better than Scrabble. There are no points, really not a lot of rules. You can spell a lot of small words or you can spell a few big words, but the point of the game is to get rid of all your tiles and the tiles on the table.

Why "Bananagrams"? Well all of the letter pieces are placed in a banana-shaped bag. There is no game board. You can buy a single banana or what my friend, Candace, just got for her birthday... a DOUBLE BANANAGRAM. It's totally epic, when there is normally only 144 letters, there is now 288. Pretty, pretty epic if you ask me.

Ok so back to the bananagram part, when start with all the tiles flipped over, to start you have to say the word... "split." When you run out of pieces, you say, "Peel," then you and everyone else grabs a tile from the center. If you don't want a tile you have to trade that one in for three more tiles. But you have to say "dump." Dump... I am still alittle questionable about that word. Then, if there are not enough tiles for everyone to grab one, and you are all out of tiles to play with, then you say, "BANANAS!" Then you win the game.

I am really not that smart, as some of the people I play with. In fact, Candace and my other friend, Erin, are the bomb-diggity at this game they spell the longest words. Words that not your normal, everyday people think of. Like "unearthed," "laughter," or "jalepeno." Me, your semi-normal person, as you can tell in the picture above, only uses like 2-4 letter words, except for my one long word... "payday." I love that word because it uses two "y"s.

It's quite funny because if you walk around Johnson County Community College, and go through Java Jazz or any table for that matter, you will see us playing that game. Some of you will think we are nerds, some of you may even want to join us nerds, and we would sure let you.

So the next time you think of a long word like, "hippopotamus," then you too are ready for... BANANAGRAMS.