Can anyone suggest card or board games in Welsh which would be good for a group of learners to use to get talking? But NOT scrabble!
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qutalwyf <- Thatās not Welsh! Itās not??? It āblwdi welā looks like it! Sorry, I canāt help you, AmadaLaing, but this thought was too funny to pass up.
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Sāmae!
Upwords is amenable to this, perhaps even I Spy for no moving parts required?
More helpfully:
http://mylanguages.org/welsh_games.php
https://www.learn-welsh.net/welshgames
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Just had an idea over brecwast this morning for a revised version of Welsh scrabble which Iām calling āTreiglo!ā - basically Scrabble in Welsh but with two new rules:
- You can only put down unmutated words (maybe this is a rule already??
); - When you put down a word that intersects another word at its first letter you can make a valid mutation of the first letter of the original word and gain some bonus points (i.e. if thereās a horizontal word, e.g. cysgu, a new vertical word, e.g. gwag, can be placed so that the final letter of gwag is the now mutated first letter of gysgu (sorry, that doesnāt look very clear now that I read it back ā¦
)
);
)
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I hate scrabble in any language
My first though was Gair am air, but thatās basically Scrabble with cards instead of tiles.
One thing currently on my to do list is to translate some of the cards from Codenames to Welsh, so that I can play it with my Welsh speaking/learning friends. (Thereās no official Cymraeg version).
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Now thatās an excellent idea
There are a few here - Theyāre aimed at children, I think, but they will probably work for adult learners - Iāve played one or two of them in the past and they didnāt seem āchildishā.
Anyone else out there who can offer a review of these games?
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Iāve played the Chewdlau CYmru top trumps style ones a few times and theyāre fun in a conversation starting way.
I really really want to set up a group playing Amazing Tales. Iāve been plaing it with my neices and nephews and reckon itās be a fab learning game if you just did it in Welsh.
Itās sort of a super-simplified Dungeons-and-Dragons a-like. Someone is storyteller, the rest are adventurers (you make up a character with an assortment of skills). At various points in the story who have a āwhat do you doā moment and have to roll a dice a find out if you suceed in what you tried (using one of your skills).
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Iāve tried the word test. Good fun. I find it harder to do English to Welsh translation of words than the other way around so good practice for me.
I fancy playing the galactic game 
Iām currently working on making Taboo cards for different levels of Welsh (elementary, intermediate, advanced). I use them with my English students and they are generally very fun and make even shy people talk. The rules (for those whoāve never played it) are very simple - you need to explain a word without using 4-6 words given on the card (for example, explain āliteratureā without using the words writer, author, book, novel, award).
I think you could also use them without a partner, just to revise vocab, but itās more fun as a game.
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I really like the sound of this idea @seren! Anything that helps with vocab gets a big thumbs up from me.
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On a gaming note Iām just crossposting to this thread because Iām starting up a board/card/RPG group in Welsh in Swansea on Tuesday evening. First sess is 18/02/2020 in Copper Bar. From 18:30 onā¦
For the Port Talbot group I bought some childrens picture cards in a car boot sale. each person picks two at random and aims to make up a sentence using one or both if theyāre feeling brave. Also we build a short story a sentence at a time taking it in turns to add to the story. Hilarious results. We also have cards with English sentences on the one and Welsh on the other, again we pick a few at random and go around the group each translating from one or the other. Weāre constantly looking for games/ideas too, in order to keep us chatting in Welsh. Hope our little games help a bit. Pob lwc.
Would you like me to promote this in the weekly email Leia? Just PM me all the relevant info and Iāll pop it in! 
Yes please! Iāll put some words together and PM