Dice2Mice
Tony Hetherington
February 2005
United Kingdom

As soon as you look at Letterflip you’ll immediately think of the children’s game Guess Who? in which the players take it in turns to ask questions to guess a face. In Letterflip the faces have been replaced by letters and the players have to race to guess a sequence of 3, 4, 5 and 6 letter words.

To compare Letterflip to Guess Who? any further would be unfair to this excellent word game that is both fun to play in pairs or as a two player game. Until you actually play the game you don’t realize its full potential. It’s not just a word game, or a deduction game it’s a fun but sometimes demanding mixture of both. In a turn a player has three options. Guess a letter hangman style and be told whether it is in the word and if it is how many of them. Multiples of the same letters are marked on the Letterflip board by easing up a marker on the top of each letter. They can also guess the word or seek confirmation about the location of the letter in a word. This is important as even when you have all the letters it can still leave you scratching your head to find the right word. If the player guesses right with whichever option they choose then they get another go until an incorrect guess ends their turn.

Once you guess the three letter word then you move on to the four letter word and so on until you guess the six letter word and the game is won. The 150 word cards are double sided with basic game words on one side and advanced harder words on the other. This allows players with unequal word skills to compete such as parents and children. It’s described as the anytime, any place word game by publishers Out of the Box and is another excellent addition to their impressive range.

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