Dingbats (board game)
{{Short description|Puzzle board game}}
{{other uses|Dingbat (disambiguation)}}
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Dingbats is the name of a puzzle franchise devised by Paul Sellers in 1980 and first published as a board game in 1987.
Gameplay
The game, for two or more people, involves solving rebuses: puzzles in which a common word or saying is hidden in a cryptic or otherwise unique arrangement of symbols.{{Cite book|last=Park|first=James F.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XqRBCwAAQBAJ&q=Dingbats+(board+game)&pg=PA90|title=Stanley|date=15 March 2015 |publisher=Lulu.com|isbn=978-1-326-21612-2|language=en}}
Publication history
The puzzles are syndicated internationally in newspapers, under various names such as "WHATZIT?" in North America and "KATCH-ITS" in Australia.{{Cite web|url=http://www.dingbats.net|title=DINGBATS®: The wordplay game that will drive you crazy!|last=|first=|date=|website=www.dingbats.net|language=en-gb|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2018-04-07}}
The name "Dingbats" is a registered trademark in the UK and European Union.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ipo.gov.uk/domestic?domesticnum=1290344|title = Intellectual Property Office}}
Reception
In the February 1988 issue of The Games Machine (Issue 3), the reviewer said that "We didn't really think a awful lot of the game, it has a tendency to get annoying because of inconsistency in the difficulty of the puzzles - but good marks for effort and decent packaging."{{cite magazine|last=|first= | date=February 1988|title=Going Overboard|magazine=The Games Machine|publisher=Enfield|issue=3|pages=83}}
Reviews
References
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External links
- [http://www.dingbats.net/ www.dingbats.net]
- {{bgg|3768|Dingbats|8640|Junior Dingbats}}
Category:Board games introduced in 2003
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