I purchased this game because I'm not a huge fan of scrabble but enjoy word games.  I was pleased to see how fun it can be as well as the variety of games you can play with it.  The base game involves a lot of chaos and interaction between the players and is a riotous, good time.  The game-type that I enjoy the most is detailed in the rules as, "Banana Smoothie" and is much more relaxed and easy-going.  (The base game involves picking up new tiles and yelling out, "PEEL" when you need to grab more tiles and every other player will follow suit thereby increasing the amount of letters in their collection... in Banana Smoothie you evenly divide up the tiles at the beginning of the game and the first player to finish wins.)