2025Dorian Sărmășan
- Videos
- 5
- Creators
- 2
Mostly how-to-play
1 - 4 players20 - 30 min
Word Colony
2021Dorian Sărmășan
- Videos
- 5
- Creators
- 3
Mainly how-to-play. Word Colony is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 1 reviews, 3 how-to-play guides, and 1 recorded sessions.
2 - 4 players
30 - 90 min
From BoardGameGeek
Word Colony combines the pursuit of trivia with the challenge of a word game thanks to more than 440 trivia questions with multiple choice answers. Each question appears on a card that also displays a letter and its value when scored. On your turn, select a card from your hand and read the question, plus the possible answers, to the table. All other players secretly vote on which answer they believe to be correct, and each player who identifies the correct answer draws a number of cards equal to that card's value. If no one chooses the correct answer, instead you cards equal to that card's value. Finally, you can score points by spelling words onto the table in front of you with the letter cards in hand. If you have enough cards, you may spell multiple words and score multiple times on you turn; when you spell multiple words, you use the last letter of a previously spelled word as the first letter of the new word. If anyone has only a single word in front of them - instead of a colony of at least two words - another player can steal that word (and its points) by colonizing it with a second word. Play to a pre-determined point total.
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Which Word Colony video should I watch?
Word Colony has 5 videos from 3 creators: 1 review, 3 how-to-play guides and 1 playthrough. They date from 2024 to June 2025.
To learn the rules, start with "QUICK GUIDE Word Colony Original" by Word Colony, which runs 3 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Word Colony Original Ad - Certificate of Authenticity" by Word Colony. To see it played, watch "Building Words, One Colony at a Time! | Word Colony Playthrough" by Miniature Market.
If you like it, try Word Colony Kids: My First Words and Word Colony: Around the World, also by Dorian Sărmășan, or 1793: Patriots & Traitors and Indiana Jones: Sands of Adventure, which share several of its mechanics.
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About Word Colony
From BoardGameGeek:
Word Colony combines the pursuit of trivia with the challenge of a word game thanks to more than 440 trivia questions with multiple choice answers. Each question appears on a card that also displays a letter and its value when scored. On your turn, select a card from your hand and read the question, plus the possible answers, to the table. All other players secretly vote on which answer they believe to be correct, and each player who identifies the correct answer draws a number of cards equal to that card's value. If no one chooses the correct answer, instead you cards equal to that card's value. Finally, you can score points by spelling words onto the table in front of you with the letter cards in hand. If you have enough cards, you may spell multiple words and score multiple times on you turn; when you spell multiple words, you use the last letter of a previously spelled word as the first letter of the new word. If anyone has only a single word in front of them - instead of a colony of at least two words - another player can steal that word (and its points) by colonizing it with a second word. Play to a pre-determined point total.
Designer
Dorian Sărmășan
Artist
Dorian Sărmășan
Publisher
Karpathic
Categories
Mechanics