Teacher Created Resources Possum Dice GamePOSSUM is a dice game in which players use six dice to spell out words and earn points by filling categories on their scorecards. The categories are arranged by parts of speech. Players have to make nouns, verbs, and adjectives. They also try to make 5 and 6 letter words of any part of speech. Players get extra points for using less common letters in their words. In addition, players can have fun by making up one word a POSSUM word as long as they can