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Games: Board/Puzzles: DOJO, Abductionary

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Abductionary, claiming to be the first time-based word search game, puts players in the role of aliens trying to steal words from humans. Substitute Congress for aliens and benefits for words, and you get the idea. The goal is to form words from random letters “sucked out” of human brains before the Language Extractor 6000 explodes. In my day, they called it Scrabble. A clean, cartoon format awards points for complexity of word; the action kicks up as the stakes rise. Available in Spanish and Portuguese, it encourages Earthlings to think on their feet.

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