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Alright, as promised first a note about word games. In a broader sense the genre has hit a bit of a Renaissance period lately. It was getting bad rep among people invested in the hobby for years (decades even), thanks to how tired everybody is of hearing about Scrabble, Taboo and Boggle but all of the sudden many new word games got designed and published, to a warm welcome.
'All of the sudden' is kind of off - it's largely the huge success of Codenames (for the record it appears in Houkago Saikoro Club but around volume 8 or so so I'm pretty sure we won't see it in the anime, aside from it being on the selves at store) that caused many similar games, such as Decrypto, Just One or When I Dream to pop up and find their own fans. Those are largely word association games though and not what I really wanted to talk about, because they are much less related to Monjirou from last ep.
Actual word building games like Scrabble were probably the most frowned upon word games for a bunch of reasons. Rather than getting into those I'll just jump straight to the game that revitalized that sub genre among board game enthusiasts. While Paperback never really reached the mainstream it's definitely successful, especially considering it was basically self published. The twist here is that it's a deck building game - each player starts with the same deck of basic letters, and draws x card from it every turn (typically 5) but you can buy new cards with new letters to customize your deck. Pic related.
The game was successful enough to get something of a sequel called Hardback, which has stronger focus on deck building. Since the players don't compete for spaces on the board directly, and each of them has their own hand of cards, the games even have a nice optional rule which allows players to lay out their hand on the table and come up with words with other players. Giving somebody a good word that will net them a lot of points might sound odd if you're taking the game very seriously and aiming to win but there's a small compensation if the player decides to use your suggestion.
Aside from those two I'd like to mention Word Domination. It has a tongue in cheek super villain theme which is rather tacked on but the illustrations are charming. It has a co-op mode - and that's
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