I’m celebrating Tu B’Shevat a little early with a FUN giveaway! (My logic? Bananas grow on trees, right? Sort of.)
Would you believe that until this Shabbat I had never played Bananagrams? I am quickly realizing that this game is ADDICTING. And it’s perfect for playing on Shabbat, because there are no batteries or pencils needed.
Named Toy Fair’s 2009 Game of the Year, Bananagrams is similar Scrabble, but I actually thought it was more fun. I played against my 8 year-old and he was a fierce competitor against his word geek mom!
Hebrew Banangrams was developed 10 years ago, but was previously only available in the Israeli market. Now, they are selling this fun Hebrew version of Bananagrams in North America as well.
Whether you are fluent in Hebrew or just learning, I think Hebrew Bananagrams is a wonderful way to flex your vocabulary muscles. And since Hebrew has so many two and three-letter words, it’s relatively easy – even for a novice.
“This game is ideal for native Hebrew speakers as well as those just starting out with the language, like many olim. Learning Hebrew is such a great way to connect to your Jewishness. There is so much depth in the Hebrew language that is lost in translation,” said Sharon August-Dalfen, the creator of the Hebrew version.
As I was playing, I was also thinking how perfect this game would be to reinforce vocabulary lessons in a classroom setting. (In fact, I’m planning to donate our review copy to my sons’ school – if I can part with it.)
Hebrew Bananagrams retails online for 99 NIS (approximately $26.50 at current exchange rates), which includes free shipping in Israel or to North America. Shipping takes between 5-10 days for delivery from Israel.
But today, KOAB readers have a chance to be one of the lucky three who win their own copy of the fun-filled word game stuffed in a yellow banana pouch!
If you would like to enter to win, you must leave a comment on this post telling me your favorite game to play on Shabbat afternoon. One entry per person.
If you would like to improve your chances of winning, you may do any one or all of the following. Remember to leave separate comments, as each comment counts as an entry.
- Like Kosher on a Budget on Facebook – then leave a separate comment letting me know you have done so (will be verified)
- Like Bananagrams in Hebrew on Facebook – then leave a separate comment letting me know you have done so (will be verified)
- Follow KOAB on Twitter and tweet the following “I just entered to win Bananagrams in Hebrew from @KosheronaBudget, courtesy of @bananagramsHEB. Come join the fun! https://kosheronabudget.com/?p=19728” – then leave me a separate comment letting me know you have done so.
This giveaway will be open until Sunday, February 12th at 11:59 p.m. CST. The winners will be notified on Monday, February 13, 2012. You may enter this giveaway if you live in the United States, Canada or Israel (yay!!!).
Good luck!
Disclosure: I received a free copy of Hebrew Banagrams to facilitate my review. I was not otherwise compensated for my time. All opinions are my own.
Just signed, up liked, and tweeted. I hope we’re the lucky winners!
Love to play cards or shesh besh
We love playing candyland!!!
We like to play match, topple and chutes and ladders (my oldest is 4 1/2.)
We like bananagrams in english, we’d love it in hebrew!
We just saw this at a store in Riverdale. Right now typically the kids play “Dominion” or just cards.
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We like to play Yahtzee!
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liked Bananagrams in Hebrew on FB. Bananagrams is one of our regular shabbat games….and really big in Plainview, too. LOOVE it. 🙂
Liked bananagrams
My favorite Shabbat game is sets.
Just liked Hebrew Bananagrams – it’s an awesome game 🙂
My favorite Shabbat game is Set.
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We love Bananagrams! But we also love to play Apples to Apples (Disney version is my son’s favorite), Perpetual Commotion, Doodle Dice, Funglish (another fun word game that my mother bought for us), Sorry, Monopoly…and my own personal favorite – Mah Jong.
Liked youo on FB.
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I like to play pretty pretty princess with my 2 year old daughter! More laughter when the hubby plays.
Our favorite game to play on Shabbat is set
Did all three!
I like Apples to Apples – or Scrabble 🙂
I like KOAB on FB
Liked Hebrew bananagrams
I like Bananagrams in Hebrew on FB
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I like u on fb already 🙂
Liked Hebrew banana grams
Liked Kosher on a Budget on Facebook
I just tweeted! @adinalex
Liked Bananagrams in Hebrew on Facebook
We love to play Disney Trivia
I like playing Sorry with my kids or Cribbage the card game on Shabbos.
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I just liked “Bananagrams in Hebrew בננהגרמס” on Facebook!
… and I already Liked your FB page.
‘Liked’ Bananagrams in Hebrew on Facebook
On Shabbat we love to play DiceCapades and Scrabble.
i like blokus and set
We love risk.
My son is obsessed with Bananagrams, so we play about 15 games every Shabbos.
Like Hebrew Bananagrams on FB
Tweeted about the contest
………need to add I do follow you on twitter
My kids and I love to play monopoly deal on shabbat afternoon!!
*I* like to play a card game called euchre. My kids like to play Flapdoodle. 😉
I already like KOAB on Facebook.
We usually play Settlers of Catan or the expansion Cities and Knights.
I like KOAB on facebook!
I also liked Bananagrams in Hebrew on Facebook.
In the winter, we play Scrabble on Shabbat afternoons; in the summer, we play mah jongg.
We like shesh besh and rumikub!
I like (and adore) KOAB on Facebook.
I just liked Bananagrams in Hebrew on Facebook.
We love playing Password, and pretty much any card game!!!!
… and I tweeted!
We love to play Bananagrams on Shabbat. We visited my sister-in-law in Seattle for Sukkot and she got us hooked on this game. My kids love it and cannot wait until Friday night after the Shabbat meal to play it.
I liked hebrew bananagrams on facebook!!!!!
I do follow you on fb.
Favorite game is Sorry
My favorite shabbos afternoon game is blokus!
Liked Kosher on a budget on facebook
Liked hebrew bananograms on facebook!
I liked KOAB on FB.
I liked Bananagrams in Hebrew on Facebook.
I like monopoly or life on a long shabbat afternoon.
Did all the requirements and in our house we are banangram addicts!!!
Shesh besh and rumikub
I’d definitely say bananagrams even if this contest had nothing to do with bananagrams!!! 🙂
Liked Bananagrams in Hebrew on fb.
Liked KOAB on fb.
On Shabbat if it’s me and my daughter – Bananagrams. Whole family – Monopoly.
Mahjongg is our favorite shabbos afternoon game (especially in the summer!)
I like KOAB on facebook
card games!
bananagrams (trite, but true)
bananagrams…trite, but true…
I love to play backgammon. I grew up playin with my dad on shabbos, it is still my favorite. 🙂
liked Kosher on a Budget on facebook
Scrabble!
liked bananagrams in hebrew on facebook
Monopoly!
Let’s go big money!
I already like KOAB on facebook (Katie Que)
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I also liked Bananagrams in Hebrew on fb (Katie Que)
@ktelecia tweeted too!
Our favorite game to play on shabbos is a card game called Spite and Malice. I know it sounds terrible, but my kids love it – and so do the adults.
I like KOAB on FB.
I like Hebrew Bananagrams on FB.
I love playing Bananagrams on Shabbos. I would send Hebrew Bananagrams to my daughter in Israel!
Ilove winter Shabbats. last Friday night we played Street Word (a new game for us). Old favorites are backgammon, cribbage, and shomer shabbat version of sukudo. My one sone loves Chess. We keep a double closet in our family area to house only shomer shabbat games.
Friend of KOAB on FB already.
We love to read books on shabbos!
Like banagrams in Hebrew on FB. And boy does my Hebrew need help!!!
I follow KOAB on twitter and sent out a tweet from my account.
Liked koab on Facebook
Scrabble!
I ‘like’ KOAB on facebook.
My kids’ favorite game is rummiQ. We also like Bananagrams
Liked you on Facebook
Liked Bananagrams in Hebrew on Facebook
I tweeted your message
Hi, already like you on FB! On Shabbat aafternoon, we play anything Cranium 🙂
Any game, any time, is my family’s motto. We love Banangrams, too. I already like you on FB, btw.
Favorite shabbos game with the kids is uno, “war”(card game), and candyland.
I like playing Settlers or Cities and Knights of Catan.
Checkers
Checkers!
Bananagrams!
I already like KOAB on facebook.
I liked Bananagrams in Hebrew on FB.
And I tweeted, too.
We love to play uno on shabbos
My husband and I love to play Qwirkle!
Our favorite games cycle through seasons…they include: Blokus, Bananagrams, Set, Risk, Perpetual Commotion (so fun if you have a group of 5-6 and it’s just chaotic fun minus any strategy), Mastermind, Settlers of Catan, Poker (no real money ;)) (My 7-yr-old can play a mean hand of poker. When she was 5 and she won a hand “on the river,” she cried out – “I won it cuz of the lake!”).
What’s this Shesh Besh thing? Gotta look into that….
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tweeted (on my brand new twitter account that I created expressly for the purpose of bettering my chances on these giveaways that I NEVER win!)
Favorite Shabbos afternoon games?
bananagrams of course, as well as Settlers of Catan, anagrams, gin rummy… the list gets longer in the summertime
And for those of you who like Hebrew bananagrams, try out Hebrew Boggle – equally great for practicing Hebrew and a fun challenge 🙂
For my older kids that read, playing spaghetti and meatballs – read aloud and each word that starts with an S you must spaghetti, each word with an M – say meatballs. When you make a mistake, it’s the next person’s turn.
Lately, we’ve really been enjoying Ingenious, which my aunt and uncle sent at Chanukah time.
I already like KOAB. I just liked Hebrew Bananagrams.
We love playing banangrams, especially on shabbos or yom tov. Would love to try it in hebrew!
bananagrams!
liked KOAB on fb
This is fun! We like to play Rummikub.
Like to play cards or Rummikub on shabbos.
Liked both KOAB & Hebrew Bananagrams.
My favorite game to play shabbos afternoon is , Who Falls Asleep First. Its a win-win kinda game….lol
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Tweeted I like Hebrew Bananagrams.
we like settlers of catan on shabbos afternoon.
I’m a facebook fan!
(I’m also wondering why it costs twice as much in Hebrew… AFAIK maximum retail of the English version is $14)
I like Kosher on a Budget and Bananagrams in Hebrew on Facebook!
We love to play Scrabble or UNO
Ticket to Ride. Great game for adults!
I’m already signed up, so I tweeted.
We love Rummy-Q!
I like KOAB on FB
I like בננה-גרם – Bananagrams in Hebrew on Facebook
I also like sets.
I liked you on fb.
we love to play uno and english bananagrams
I love it when my mom joins us for Shabbos…for my girls (and me) that means staying up late Friday night playing games….bannanagrams, rummykub, and skip-bo are our current favorites!!!
We’ve got a few favorites: the ladybug game for the younger set, spot it for the middle ones and bananagrams with the older kids. when my mom or aunt are over it’s mah-jong time!
liked banagrams in hebrew on facebook
also already liked you on facebook! 🙂
We are big bananagram fans. We were actually turned onto it at a retreatish thing we went on a few years ago and, yes, it is addicting. I would love the get the Hebrew version for my son to sharpen his Hebrew skills with his dad (I am helpless when it comes to Hebrew).
I have “liked” KOAB’s FB page.
Liked Bananagrams in Hebrew on FB. And we like to play Uno, Munchkin, or Settlers of Catan. But really, I’d rather read aloud to my kids than play a game, so that’s our favorite Shabbas activity.
We like to play Bananagrams of course!
I already like you on FB 😉
I liked Hebrew banangrams
going to tweet now!
ooop, just read I must leave a separate comment,
so here is my “like” KOAB on FB
Favorite game is Risk
“like” Hebrew Bananagrams on FB
My tweet
https://twitter.com/#!/JessiLevy4/status/167063158706540544
I don’t know if I could say its my favorite game, but my kids always want to play “mitzvah matching game” with me 🙂
already like KOAB on FB
liked Hebrew Bananagrams on FB
Posted the comment on Twitter
Scrabble and Settlers of Catan!
Liked KOAB on Facebook
Liked Hebrew Bananagrams on Facebook.
I have a strict no tweeting policy at this time, so I am hoping to win with the first two options.
The Ungame 🙂
I like KOAB on FB.
rummikub!
I like KOAB on FB
connect four!!
We love playing “spot it” with all ages on shabbos! Held in a small round tin, its the type of game that is fun for all ages-from about 4-5yrs and up (though savti totally gets creamed by 5 yr old grandson!!)
Sleeping Queens, Sorry Revenge, 5 Crowns, 3 of a Crime, There’s a Moose in the House…we love card games!
thanks KOAB love your site and I wanna win those Bananagrams!!
I “Like” KOAB and Hebrew Bananagrams on FB! 🙂
i love the game ”who can be quiet the longest”
Scrabble, Blokus, Trivial pursuit.
When my kids were younger, I played a fierce game of Uno or Othello with them! Now I sleep.
Love KOAB on Facebook!
liked Hebrew Bananagrams on FB
Our favorite Shabbat game at the moment is “Qwirkle”. And I “liked” Hebrew Bananagrams on Facebook (and would love to play it).
Our favorite Shabbos game is Ticket to Ride. Love the competition, but hate playing with certain competitive people!
Liked Hebrew banangrams on my husband’s facebook account: Shaya Goldmeier
apples to apples, new favorite game 🙂
I have already liked KOAB
Liked Bananagrams in hebrew 🙂
i liked you and banana grams on fb 🙂 also tweeted it away…!
Just liked KOAB … luv the English version!
Settlers of Catan
“Liked” Bananagrams in Hebrew on Facebook
“Liked” Kosher on a Budget on Facebook
We like blokus.
Our favorites are Chutes and Ladders or a game called All Around Town. It is one we started playing for home school fun. No matter who he plays against, our 5 year old wins every time!
I like you on FB – and I am sharing this with my friends!
For those who already have the game, check out the special Tu B’Shvat way to play. https://www.facebook.com/HebrewBananagrams
And I liked Banangrams in Hebrew 🙂
Our favorite game is Race for the Galaxy. It’s a strategy card game.
I have previously liked KOAB on Facebook.
I like KOAB on Facebook.
Also, I like Hebrew Bananagrams on Facebook.
I love to play Scrabble
I “liked” Bananagrams in Hebrew” on Facebook
I “liked” KOAB on Facebook
I already like Kosher on a Budget on Facebook.
My favorite game to play is “Take the kids to the park and read a book or talk to the other parents”. When the weather is not good for that, I like playing Set.
We love playing Spot It! Great for adults and kids
I like KOAB on Facebook
We like card games or board games for the little ones–sorry, candyland, etc.
varies, but currently bannanagrams!
And I like bananagrams on fb
A fun game for us is a card game called “Moose in the House”.
Does napping count as a game? That’s my favorite game to play on Shabbat. The kids’ current favorite is a Harry Potter trivia game.
I like KOaB on FB.
We love to play Othello, Shabbos matching game or card games like spit!!!
I like KOAB on FB!
I like Banagrams in Hebrew on FB.
I tweeted about this giveaway!
I like KOAB on FB
I liked Hebrew Banagrams on FB
I am a twitter follower
we like Blokus trigon and bananagrams and jigsaw puzzles
i liked hebrew bananagrams on fb
Farkle!
We enjoy playing Blanko. It’s like a hebrew scrabble… but not scrabble.
We love Bananagrams but also Quirkus and Ticket to Ride.
We love backgammon and Sleeping Queens!
In addition to Bananagrams, a new fave is Winomino.
I liked Bananagrams in Hebrew on Facebook
I liked KOAB on Facebook
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Followed and tweeted
Wow! This would be so awesome to win! thank you!!
https://twitter.com/Indiana_Gator/statuses/168182175966040065
Hi, I’d like to enter! Looks like a great product. I’ve never played it but I enjoy Scrabble and many other games on Shabbat.
Tweeted about the giveaway! https://twitter.com/GrantGGreen/statuses/168208134060523520
Liked Bananagrams in Hebrew on Facebook!!!! This is a really cool game!
We like to play scattagories….and soon, hope to play HEBREW Bananagrams!!!!
I like the dots and boxes game – Squares.
I followed on twitter and tweeted.
liked kosher on a budget!
liked hebrew bananagrams on facebook!
rummikub
Trivial Pursuit or Scrabble:)
liked hebrew banagrams on facebook
Liked KOAB on FB and followed KOAB on Twitter a while back. I just liked Hebrew banana grams on FB
Uno
I just liked Banagrams in Hebrew on FB, but I’ve like them for a long time in the real world, to! ! 😉
We like to play card games.
Right now our favorite is monopoly junior!
I already like Kosher on a Budget on Facebook
Liked Kosher on a Budget and would love Hebrew Bananagrams!!
Happy Birthday…to me, today!!
Im a Hebrew speaker and would love to have this!
tabboo is a fav over here:)
We love to play Mah Jong, Ticket To Ride, Rummy Cub and Bananagrams!
I liked your facebook pages ages ago, when I first stumbled across your blog.
I liked the Hebrew Banangrams. I am so excited about this game. What a fun way to hone my children and my student’s Hebrew language skills.
I tweeted! It might be one of my first tweets.
we have this great Wizard card game, it’s quick and keeps the kids’ attention well.
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Rummy-cube, cards (kent, secret 7), set, chess, blokus. With the younger ones: candyland, boggle jr. Thanks for a great site!
https://twitter.com/#!/imabima/status/168902393721921537
I like KOB on FB
I like Bananagrams in Hebrew on FB
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