Ridiculously addictive and can be played in many different ways. You can play it the standard banana grams way or you can try variations where you can 'steal words from other people'. Really, the game is a bag of word blocks. What you choose to do with them is really up to you. The price for the banana is good because it has a lot of letters in it. I think it holds more than the apple and the pear version do. You will have fun with this game if you like games that are similar to Scrabble. It involves speed and some vocab.  You can getaway though with knowing less words than in Scrabble. All you need to be able to do is spell the few words you do know correctly quickly.