boardgamevideo
  • Trending
  • Videos
  • Games
  • Channels
  • Lists
  • Shorts

Explore

  • Home
  • Trending
  • Channels
  • Videos
  • Games
  • Lists
  • Shorts
  • Conventions
  • Year in Review

Browse by type

  • Reviews
  • How to play
  • Playthroughs
  • Unboxing
  • Top 100 lists
  • Featured videos
  • Trending this week
  • Rising games
  • Games with fresh review perspectives

Information

  • About
  • Contact
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Policy

© 2022–2026 BoardGameVideo.com

Powered by BGG
  • Videos
  • Trending
  • Shorts
  • Channels
  • Games
  • Lists
Word on the Street

Word on the Street

2009·Jack Degnan

2 - 10 players
20 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes

From BoardGameGeek

In Word on the Street, players – either individually or in teams – try to claim letter tiles from the game board. To set up the game, seventeen letter tiles (all the consonants in English other than j, q, x, and z) are placed in a strip down the center of the game board – the median strip of the street, if you will, which has two "traffic lanes" on either side of it. On a turn, one team is presented with a category such as "types of fruit" or "something a player is wearing", and that team has thirty seconds to come up with an answer in that category, then move the letters in that word toward their side of the game board. Any letters in the word that are not on the game board are skipped. If the answer were "pineapple", for example, the team would move P, N, P, P and L. If a team moves a letter off the game board, it has claimed that letter and that tile will not move for the remainder of the game. The first team to claim eight letter tiles wins!

Word on the Street

All videos

DGA Plays Board Games: Word on the StreetPlaythrough42:56

DGA Plays Board Games: Word on the Street

Dad's Gaming Addiction

Dad's Gaming Addiction

Creators who cover this

All channels
Dad's Gaming Addiction
Dad's Gaming Addiction
1 video of this game

Games like this

All games

Word on the Street Junior

2010·Jack Degnan

Videos
1
Creators
1
How-to-play

2 - 8 players·30 min·Light weight

Guess the Mess!

2014·Jack Degnan

Videos
1
Creators
1
How-to-play

3 - 8 players·35 min·Light weight

Rat-a-Tat Roll

2019·Jack Degnan

Videos
1
Creators
1
How-to-play

2 - 5 players·15 min·Light weight

Wild Assent

2021·Robert Mc Connell

Videos
51
Creators
24
Mainly playthroughs and reviews

1 - 4 players·60 - 90 min·Medium weight

About Word on the Street

From BoardGameGeek:

In Word on the Street, players – either individually or in teams – try to claim letter tiles from the game board. To set up the game, seventeen letter tiles (all the consonants in English other than j, q, x, and z) are placed in a strip down the center of the game board – the median strip of the street, if you will, which has two "traffic lanes" on either side of it. On a turn, one team is presented with a category such as "types of fruit" or "something a player is wearing", and that team has thirty seconds to come up with an answer in that category, then move the letters in that word toward their side of the game board. Any letters in the word that are not on the game board are skipped. If the answer were "pineapple", for example, the team would move P, N, P, P and L. If a team moves a letter off the game board, it has claimed that letter and that tile will not move for the remainder of the game. The first team to claim eight letter tiles wins!

Designer

Jack Degnan

Artists

Sébastien Bizos, John Kovalic, Max Winter Osterhaus, Cathleen Quinn-Kinney, Matt Roussel, Manuel Sanchez

Publisher

Out of the Box Publishing

Categories

Party GameWord Game

Mechanics

Grid MovementTeam-Based Game
View on BoardGameGeek ›
Home
Games
Word on the Street
cached: 40990