We’ve been playing Bananagrams often since we started six months ago, many days a week playing it after a meal, as a vehicle to spend more time with each other before we scatter back to our separate projects. It punctuates both the end of the meal and even the day itself. Interestingly, our youngest daughter’s spelling has improved enormously doing this. She felt challenged to keep up early on and now she is winning with jar-dropping words like “equestrian” and “thyme”.

Whoever goes out first wins, but we’ve started challenging ourselves to make better words or more interesting configurations and still win. You outgrow three letter words pretty quickly if you play this a lot, and you start seeing text everywhere very differently. To buy the game (click here) on Amazon. We are loving this time together! In these photos are some winning turns…