This game for up to six players is so much fun that it can be a little noisy if you aren't prepared. The academic target is great. Each player has to have one base card with the root and its meaning, e.g., ped (foot). They have to collect the two examples (pedal and pedestrians) during the game. When they have this three card set they can take a spoon and this is the fun part. They can take it anytime before their next turn. As soon as they do the other players take a spoon also. One player will miss out.

There is a short version of the game and a longer one if you have more time. You can mix the games and leave out sets as long as you have enough cards for the number of players.

SET 1: aqua (water): aquarium/aquamarine, spect (look): spectacles/spectators, aud (hear): audible/auditorium, manus (hand): manual/manufacture, port (carry): transport/airport, bio (life): biologist/autobiography, auto (self): autograph/automobile, sphere (ball): hemisphere/sphere, multi (many): multivitamin/multitask

SET 2: tele (far): telescope/telephone, vid/vis (see): television/invisible, ject (throw): project/inject, dens (tooth): dentist/dentures, struct (build): destruction/instruction, micro (small): microscope/microwave, fract (break): fracture/fraction, cent (hundred): centipede/percent, geo (earth): geologist/geode

SET 3: astro (star): astronaut/astronomy, ped (foot): pedal/pedestrians, photo (light): photographer/photograph, quad (four): quadruplets/quad bike, therm (heat): thermometer/thermos, scope (look at): microscope/telescope, graph (write): autograph/graphite, flor (flower): florist, floral, mar (sea): submarine/marine

SET 4: multi (many): multiply/multistorey, cedo (go): succeed/proceed, meter (measure): thermometer/perimeter, bene (good): benefit/beneficial, ped (foot): pedicure/pedometer, mal (bad): malfunction/malady, brevis (short): briefcase/abbreviation, circum (round): circus/circle, oct (eight): octopus/octagon