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Letterflip
- Replay Value (1-10): 6
- Fun Factor (1-10): 5
- Worth Buying (1-10): 4
This game is basically Hangman without any information about the position of the letters in the word. Instead of players choosing the words to give their opponents, the words are given on small cards; each one containing four words of length 3, 4, 5, and 6 respectively. The board is basically a way of keeping track which letters have been guessed, and, of those letters that are in the word, how many times that letter occurs.
Supposedly the cards come into difficulty levels, although when we tried it there didn't seem to be any appreciable difference in the actual difficulty of the words on the card. The designers seem to have thought that well-known words are more easier than others, but what turns out to actually make a word hard is a word where the common letters are shared with lots of other common letters. For instance, in one game we played I discovered and that three of the four letters in the word I was guessing were E, O, and N. Well, as it turns out, of the 23 other letters, eighteen of them will form a four-letter word with those letters (admittedly four of them are rather obscure). And of course with my luck, it would take me 14 guesses to guess the right one. Because of situations like this, it feels as if the game is more luck driven then you would expect a word guessing game to be. It's a shame that this fancy contraption doesn't come with the more interesting game.
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