Illiterati is a real-time, cooperative word game in which players work together to form words and bind books. Each player starts the game with five letter tiles and a red torched book that shows a condition that the player must achieve to restore that book, e.g. using 8+ tiles with at least 3 green symbols, creating words that are all animals. A library of three random tiles is placed in the center of the table. The game takes place in three-minute rounds, and before the round begins each player draws seven letter tiles from the draw bag.
Once the countdown begins, players can talk and trade letters as much as they want with one another and the library to try to achieve their goals. Once the time ends, if the library contains too many letters — and this threshold is based on your difficulty level — then you trigger a burn event. Flip all of these letters face down, then remove one of them from the game, then discard excess letters to the discard bag. If you burn too many letters, you lose the game. If you didn't burn any letters and you've completed your goal, flip your red book face down and draw a blue waterlogged book to give yourself a new goal.
1-5 Players, Age: 7+