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Number of Players: 2
Playing Time:
20-30 minutes
What do you get when you cross Battleship with Hangman? You
get LetterFlip, a fun two-player game where you try to guess your opponent’s hidden
word.
The game is simple, and only takes a few minutes to learn. Each
game comes with two “Letterflippers”—one for each player. The Letterflipper has a card
slot and one flippable tile for each letter of the alphabet. The game also comes with
two-sided LetterFlip cards. Each card has four 3-6 letter words on both sides. The
object of the game is to guess all of the words on your opponent’s
card.
Both players begin with a three-letter word. Player 1 starts by
guessing a letter. If that letter is part of Player 2’s word, Player 1’s turn
continues. Play carries on in this fashion until Player 1 guesses
incorrectly.
If Player 1 guesses an incorrect letter, he flips down the
tile for that particular letter (so that he knows to not guess that letter again), and it
becomes Player 2’s turn.
After a player has guessed all the letters in a
word, he may guess the word. He can also guess the positioning of a letter. For
example, if a player is working on a four-letter word, and he knows the letters are C, H,
I, and T, he could ask a question such as, “Is the first letter I?” This question can be
asked as many times as needed in order to figure out that the word is ITCH. (However, if
the player gets the positioning wrong, he loses his turn.)
Once a player
guesses the word correctly, he flips all of his tiles up and tries to guess the next word
on his opponent’s card in the same manner. The game is over when one player
successfully guesses all the words on the other player’s card.
This game
is great. It’s quiet and low-key, and it really makes you concentrate. One of the best
things about it is the portability—since all you really need are the cards and the
LetterFlippers, you can play it anywhere. And you can make the game more or less
challenging, depending on your needs—if you’re a real word whiz, you can try to guess the
harder words on the second side of the LetterFlip cards, or you can just stick to three
and four-letter words if you’re playing with younger kids.
