Description

Download-and-print word-building card games requiring players to add prefixes and/or suffixes to base words, adjusting junctures as necessary:

• Doubling final consonant e.g. run-runner
• Dropping final ‘e’ e.g. hope-hoping
• Swapping ‘y’ for ‘i’ e.g. easy-easier
• Assimilating prefixes e.g. in+possible = impossible

Here’s a demonstration of the simplest game, which also includes the non-productive suffix -le, which is part of many words, even though we no longer use it to create new words:

The other suffixes in these games are -er, -y, s/es, -ify, -less, -ness, -ful, -ly, -able/ible, ity.

The prefixes are un-, mis-, dis-, de-, re-, pre- and assimilated/chameleon prefix in-/im-/il/ir.

Here are videos of how to play three more of the games (sorry we haven’t had time to make videos of all of them, but this should give you the idea):