Myself, my sister Fiona and my wife Daphne had been developing and screening a bunch of ideas for our much needed second game, following the success of Accentuate, but were struggling to identify that ‘tingle’ moment. Where did the idea for the game come from? To date, we believe the highest scoring word is W I N Db U R N = 417 x 2 (as Db is a double word score) = 834! The winner is the first to score 1,000 points. The game combines, skill, luck and strategy at a frenzied pace and challenges players aged eight and above to form words from letters scattered around a board with capital letters that may appear in the middle of a word. The most frequently used element symbols to create words in FReNeTiC are: S, I, N, C, O, P, Es, H, Er, U, B and In.
Interestingly, unlike Scrabble, there are no words in FReNeTiC that can be created starting with J, Q or Z. Players creating one of these words can win FReNeTiC blank tiles for use as ‘Joker’ tiles.
Words formed from these symbol tiles allow double word scores.ġ3 of the Element symbol spaces have bold Green borders and are actually elements that can be created from the symbol tiles (e.g. Ten of the Element symbol spaces on the board are coloured red and were chosen through statistical frequency analysis, which showed they could only be used to create fewer than 30 words. Ba Na Na = Banana = 56 + 11 + 11 = 78 points. The novel scoring system uses the Atomic Numbers of the Element symbols used to score the word (e.g. Players must write down as many words as possible within 45 seconds, from Element symbol tiles placed on the board. It’s a challenging and addictive word search game, with all players engaged all the time.
FReNeTiC only uses 96 of the 118 Elements as eight of the Element symbols can not be used to create any English language words and the other 14 symbols can only be used to create less than 10 words. Historically, it was Dimitri Mendeleev who created the Periodic Table in 1869 with the British chemist Henry Moseley creating the concept of atomic numbers as the organising principle in 1913. Amazingly there are more than 10,000 words that can be created from the Element symbols of the Periodic Table. The game board is a customised version of the Periodic Table of the Elements. We caught up with Fraser-Bell to find out more about where the idea for FReNeTiC came from and what lessons he learnt from the design process behind Accentuate that informed the development of his latest game.Ĭan you talk us through the concept of FReNeTiC?įReNeTiC is the frenzied word game of the elements. Graeme Fraser-Bell has debuted his follow-up in the form of FReNeTiC, a frenzied word game of the elements.įeaturing a game board made up of the Periodic Table of the Elements, FReNeTiC sees players write down as many words as possible within 45 seconds from Element symbol tiles placed on the board (and before you ask, Graeme tells us there are more than 10,000 words that can be created from the Element symbols of the Periodic Table).
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