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I didn't actively pursue these game's mechanics to plunder - it just kinda fell into place.

So players draw cards to makes words, On the board is a nation divided into 21 regions of 3 different colours (indicating noun, verb or adjective). within these regions are city-sites with numbers (indicating the size of word required to build there) players build through the regions only moving on from another of their city locations.

On ther turn players can either :
draw 1-2 cards from the 4 open cards drawn from the closed letter deck
play a word, score and place city on the board

Players score for the word they've made to build with, but minus the cards left in hand (ie player A want to move into a city site with a value of 5 - player has the word GREEN plus 2 other cards - therefore scoring 3 points instead of 5)

game is over when the first player to use up all their building pieces (16 each)

Player with biggest score wins: Players score bonus points for making a word of the same type as the region colour they're moving into (noun, verb etc).
They also score bonus points for completing a whole region (each region has 2-3 city sites). And at game end the game, players also score for number of regions they have built into.

So I kinda made the scoring work to enable slow pedantic players (those who go for all the full region bonuses and correct word type) to compete with the fast players (those who aim to move through the board quickly blocking other players)