{"id":15320,"date":"2018-02-14T11:25:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T11:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groversoptics.com\/toys\/product\/bananagrams-word-game\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T12:47:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T12:47:03","slug":"bananagrams-word-game","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/groversoptics.com\/toys\/product\/bananagrams-word-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Bananagrams Word Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><b>Bananagrams<\/b><\/i>\u00a0is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Word_game\" title=\"Word game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">word game<\/a>\u00a0invented by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abraham_Nathanson\" title=\"Abraham Nathanson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abraham Nathanson<\/a><sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bananagrams#cite_note-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[1]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pawtucket,_Rhode_Island\" title=\"Pawtucket, Rhode Island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pawtucket<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhode_Island\" title=\"Rhode Island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rhode Island<\/a>, wherein lettered tiles are used to spell words.<\/p>\n<p>Nathanson conceived and developed the idea for the game with the help of his family.<sup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bananagrams#cite_note-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[2]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The name is derived from the founding family&#8217;s claim that it&#8217;s the &#8220;anagram game that will drive you bananas!&#8221;<sup id=\"cite_ref-3\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bananagrams#cite_note-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[3]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Beginning as a family innovation, Bananagrams was made available to the public in January 2006 at the London Toy Fair.<sup id=\"cite_ref-4\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bananagrams#cite_note-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[4]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The game is similar to the older\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scrabble\" title=\"Scrabble\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scrabble<\/a>\u00a0variant\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scrabble_variants#Take_Two\" title=\"Scrabble variants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Take Two<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Game play involves arranging one&#8217;s tiles into a grid of connected words faster than one&#8217;s opponents. The object of the game is to be the first to complete a word grid after the pool of tiles has been exhausted. The tiles come in a fabric banana-shaped package.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast, fun-filled educational word game that requires no pencil, paper or board.<\/p>\n<p>Perfect for travelling or at home, bananagrams is the grab-and-go game for the whole family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[31150,31147],"product_tag":[35251,35253,35257,33795,33420,32666,35258,35255,35259,35250,32095,35252,35254,35256],"class_list":["post-15320","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-games-jigsaws","product_cat-toys","product_tag-35251","product_tag-bananagrams","product_tag-beginning","product_tag-family","product_tag-game","product_tag-grid","product_tag-lettered","product_tag-nathanson","product_tag-pawtucket","product_tag-tb10596","product_tag-that","product_tag-tiles","product_tag-word","product_tag-words","first","outofstock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groversoptics.com\/toys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/15320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groversoptics.com\/toys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groversoptics.com\/toys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groversoptics.com\/toys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groversoptics.com\/toys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groversoptics.com\/toys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groversoptics.com\/toys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=15320"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groversoptics.com\/toys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=15320"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groversoptics.com\/toys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=15320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}