I just received this game and brought to my Mom's for an after Sunday lunch game. I bought this game because of the name (My Dad was always giving away bananas when Mom had bought a few too many, will still chuckle about it) Anyway, we had a lot of fun and also got a kick out of making up a word or two (just for fun) as we made up a few of our own rules like you CAN use a surname (as my mom had my dad's name in her tiles so of course we did) Make up your own rules and have more fun.. This is great for kids and adults.. Getting back to real good clean fun games to interact is a good thing. I will be buying a few more to give as gifts.