Challenging and Fun. This is a wonderful game to play for even just two players. The game rules that allow you to rearrange letters whenever you want, as well as spell words backwards, forwards & on a diagonal make for a lot of fun and challenge. Nice travel game too.
Banagrams! Greatest thing since the invention of ice 
. Bananagrams is a game for kids and grownups! Better than scrabble and really challenges the mind. We are enjoying it with kids from 7 to 70 !
Fast and Fun but Not Too Deep. The thing about Bananagrams is that it’s pretty fun to keep rearranging letters to make your words and all, but there’s just barely any strategy to speak of. For how much you’re really playing “against” the other people, you may as well be going solo.
There’s this element of time pressure, because people keep going “PEEL!” which is bananagrams for “take another letter,” but really? You can just bust out some “his”s and “or”s and “put”s and get right back in there. So it always comes down right to the end, anyway.
That’s the other thing, there are all these actions you perform that already have words for them, like “draw” and “start” and “I win,” and bananagrams expects everybody to learn ALL NEW banana-themed words, which can be difficult to remember, especially in the middle of a heated game. One time, I was like “BUNCH!” and everybody looked at me like I was crazy, and my wife was like, “I think you mean *peel*.” I’m STILL living that one down.
I guess I wouldn’t be calling out bananagrams if the whole banana connection wasn’t so tenuous. Are bananas supposed to have something to do with spelling? I’m not buying the argument that it’s named after the way the tiles taste, because I think that’s just a coincidence.