About

Shukuma^© (meaning ‘Movement’ in Zulu) is a word forming game similar to ‘Boggle^TM‘, ‘Scrabble^TM‘ or a word search. Shukuma^© has 104-hexagonal game pieces (tiles) randomly sorted and placed upon a game board (11-rows of 9- and 10-spaces interchangeably). Each tile has a letter of the alphabet or an asterisk ‘*’ printed upon it. The asterisk can be used to represent any letter.

Aim of the game
Try to form as many long words as possible.

Scoring
Each letter multiplies your score by 2 – e.g.: 2 letters = 4, 3 letters = 8, 4 letters = 16 and so on.

End of play
When no one is able to form any new words.

Winner
The player with the highest total score.

Game variations
- Word limited game play – 20-words per player.
- Score limited game play – Up to 1,000 points, least words wins.
- Timed game play – 10-minutes.
- Longest word game play.

Players
1 or more; All ages.

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