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What’s in the Box

• Seven Letter Roll™ Dice—two white, three blue, and two orange.
    The colors of the dice indicate how frequently the letters appear in words:
      white–frequently used
      blue–less frequently used
      orange–infrequently used
  
• A Blue Two-Minute Timer —standard game
  
• An Orange One-Minute Timer —fast play game
  
• Four Letter Roll Pads and four Pencils
  
• Quick Play Rules

The Object of Letter Roll

Players earn points by listing words which contain the three letters rolled on the Letter Roll dice. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins Letter Roll.

Setting Up

1. Give each player a Letter Roll sheet and a pencil.
   
2. Choose which timer will be used in the game—the two-minute blue timer or, for a faster game, the one-minute orange timer.
   
3. Select a player to be the first “roller.” Give that player all seven dice and the chosen timer.

Playing the Game

1. The roller selects any four of the seven dice and rolls them.
2. The player to the left of the roller selects one of the four dice rolled and removes it from play.
3. The roller calls out the letters on the three dice in play and each player writes the three letters on the Letter Roll sheet in the first open space.
4. The roller flips over the timer and each player lists as many words containing the three letters as he or she can, within the two minutes. See Allowable Words
5. When the time is up, all players stop writing. Starting with the player to the left of the roller, each player reads his or her words aloud. Any word that appears on more than one player’s list is crossed off of all lists.
6. After all players have read their lists, each player adds the number of words that have not been crossed off and writes that number on the line next to the three letters. This number represents points for that round.

7. The seven dice and the timer are passed to the player to the left of the roller and that player becomes the new roller.

Play continues following steps 1–7 until each player has been the roller the required number of times.

Winning the Game

Players total their points. The player with the highest score wins Letter Roll.

In case of a tie, the players with tied scores each select one of the Letter Roll dice. The tied players all roll their dice at the same time and write the letters on their Letter Roll sheets. A player flips over the timer. There will be as many letters as tied players and all letters must be used in each word. The round is scored as usual and the player with the highest score wins.