How to play Letter by Letter

Letter by Letter is an A to Z category game. You get one category, like “Dinosaurs” or “Herbs and spices”, and a tower with one floor for every letter. Name something in the category that starts with each floor’s letter to ride the elevator up before the doors close.

Solo

1. Press Start. The category is revealed when the 2-minute clock begins.
2. The car sits on one floor at a time, starting at A. Type an answer that fits the category and starts with that letter, then press Enter.
3. Small spelling mistakes are fixed for you. If a misspelling could mean two answers, you will be asked to try again. A wrong answer costs nothing but time.
4. Stuck? Press Skip floor. That letter goes to the back of the line and you come back to it later.
5. Letters that nothing in the category starts with are left out, so every floor in your tower can be solved.

Scoring

• Each floor is worth 10 points, or 20 if your answer is a rare one (marked with a ★).
• Express: clear floors in a row without skipping to multiply your points. x1.5 at 4 in a row, x2 at 8, x2.5 at 12. Skipping a floor resets it.
• Top of the tower: clear every floor and you get a 50 point bonus plus 1 point for every second left.
• An answer can only be used once, even if it fits more than one letter.

Ways to play

• Today’s Daily: one category for everyone, one ride per day. It counts for the leaderboard and your monthly rank.
• Casual: pick any category, as often as you like. It never counts for the leaderboard.
• Head to head: tap Find a match for a random opponent, or make a room and share the 4-letter code. A coin flip decides who starts, then you trade letters: A for one player, B for the other, and so on.

Head to head rules

• On your turn you have 10 seconds to name something that fits the current letter. Get it and you claim the floor.
• Run out of time and the floor is lost for both of you. That is a strike. 3 strikes and you are out.
• When the last floor is done, whoever claimed more floors wins. Equal floors is a dead heat.
• Head to head matches are friendly games. They do not count for the daily leaderboard.

Was your answer right?

If a real answer isn’t recognized, tap Should it count?. We review suggestions and add the good ones.

Tips

• Clear the easy floors first and use Skip on the hard ones so Express doesn’t stall for long.
• Think of the category’s biggest names for the tough letters. Rare answers are worth double.
• In a match, a quick safe answer beats a clever slow one.

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