I ordered this expecting a "dumb" game to play when we're bored but it actually does take some skill. It only took one game for us to understand what was going on and then after that we were making qwirkle's (a term in the game for getting six in a row) and all kinds of combos. It's a fun easy game to take to parties since it's easy to learn yet hard to master. Shapes and colors make it easy for everyone and since I'm a horrible speller I like this much better than Scrabble but it has the same feel.