UPWORDS was invented by Elliot Rudell. The gameboard version of UPWORDS, as of 2018, is under license to Spin Master by Rudell Desiign, LLC. UPWORDS was originally manufactured and marketed by the Milton Bradley Company, now a division of Hasbro, which at different times marketed UPWORDS under its own name and also as Scrabble Upwords in the United States and Canada; and Topwords, Crucimaster, Betutorony, Palabras Arriba and Stapelwoord in other countries. Upwords and Hurry Upwords are available as digital gaming apps developed by Lonely Star Software under license by Rudell Design. HURRY UPWORDS can be played on the Skillz gaming site that offers free "Practice" games as well as wager-to-win "Pro" gaming.
Upwords is a letter tile word game similar to Scrabble or Words With Friends, in that players build words using letter tiles on a gridded gameboard. The point of difference is that in Upwords, letters can be stacked on top of other letters already on the gameboard in previously created words to create new words. Unlike other games where tiles have a designated point value, UPWORDS scoring is determined by the number of letter tiles stacked in a new word. The stacking of letters (up to five high) maintains a unique "available-for-change" freshness to the entire gameboard, since a tile being placed on the board does not eliminate that particular tile location from players’ later tile stack placement. This typically makes words built in later turns of the game more valuable than earlier words, increasing play intensity, providing climactic scoring as the game progresses, and adding a level of strategy unique to Upwords. The memorization of two-letter words is considered a useful skill in this game. Upwords has been marketed around the world for 40 years and is considered a classic word game, having won awards and been cited in independent writings as one of the world’s best family games.
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