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Last Word

#1960BGG ↗

1985 · 2-4 players · 90min · weight 1.71 · 124 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

BGG raw

ID
1960
Name
Last Word
Year
1985
Rank
22729
Min players
2
Max players
4
Playing time
90
Min playtime
90
Max playtime
90
Avg weight
1.7143
Num weights
7
Bayes avg
5.50962
Average
5.72736
Users rated
124
Num owned
463
Wanting
3
Wishing
9
Num comments
87
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:40:51 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (3)
Grid MovementSpellingSquare Grid
Categories (1)
Word Game
Description (1043 chars)

Last Word is a clever blend of Boggle and territory control, where wordplay meets tactical positioning. Played on a shared 10x10 grid filled with letter tiles and wilds, players take turns forming words by tracing adjacent letters—just like in Boggle—but instead of just writing them down, they remove the tiles they used. As the board slowly depletes, it gets trickier to find viable words. Players must balance scoring points with strategic sabotage, eyeing both high-value letters and positioning to cut off opponents. If you leave another player stranded—isolated with no word options—you score a sweet bonus. Players who can no longer form valid words are eliminated from the round. If Boggle had an evil twin who loved spatial warfare, this would be it. Like Upwords, Paperback, and WordSpiel, it rewards clever vocabulary—but here, it's survival of the wordiest. The game continues until someone reaches 50 points across multiple rounds, making Last Word both a test of vocabulary and spatial strategy.

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.