Letterpress
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Game description
Letterpress is a word game for smartphones. Two players take turns making words using letters found in a 5 by 5 matrix of tiles, attempting to surround consecutive tiles so as to protect them from their use being counted by each opponent.
The app is available for iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/letterpress-word-game/id526619424
The game is developed by atebits: http://www.atebits.com/letterpress/
Example games
Here are some examples demonstrating various strategies and outcomes. I believe I am always represented by blue. A graph below the word list shows the amount of letters each side has during the game. Click on the board to advance one move and see the game progress.
- You can beat a cheater
- http://replay.letterpress.atebits.com/#22acb2276327f08e232be7eeba248826
- My opponent learns that using a computer to find big words doesn't guarantee a win.
- Tenacious G
- http://replay.letterpress.atebits.com/#0ef717cc16315adbfbe3455ec137cd2b
- It is possible to beat Shawn
- http://replay.letterpress.atebits.com/#35ac4d5aaa1a7a97f0e2c63b5866fddb
- Own the tough corner
- http://replay.letterpress.atebits.com/#d9b543a77c06354092cd8e740d87343e
- I chose to go with the tough letters instead of taking many turns to try to wrest the easy-lettered side from my opponent's control.
- You don't always need a strong defense
- http://replay.letterpress.atebits.com/#31e3eeeed0cd424ba26d08ec320bc980
- As long as there are enough letters unprotected, a sweep at the end will do.
- A very long game
- http://replay.letterpress.atebits.com/#c9f1fc595ff83404833f3ae66ceb93d3
- Fastest win ever, and I went second
- http://replay.letterpress.atebits.com/#86e70f7df34ae29a07133fd7a30a2d00
- I often put a word out there, then see if I can add prefixes and suffixes before submitting it. That really helped here. My opponent must have thought I was cheating, though, because winning with two words is quite rare.
- From behind all along to a win
- http://replay.letterpress.atebits.com/#199879b822600cf97ac9f557f7b38fc5
- This game is interesting in that my opponent does almost everything right, and commands one or two corners for most of the game.
- Slightly shorter words can still win
- http://replay.letterpress.atebits.com/#678d614ea9a48b980f840fcadf58345d
- Perseverance
- http://replay.letterpress.atebits.com/#8704a669d84f8555fbf99eac4e26a042
- They held me back for a long time. I notice that the replay never shows the taking of the bottom K. Unknown Atebits bug.
- Things can look bad
- http://replay.letterpress.atebits.com/#3376dbf36279ceef5b1b00275cd5fe70
- ing crazy
- http://replay.letterpress.atebits.com/#1ca9b79611d3799537d0cda9cfffb749
- Drawn out
- http://replay.letterpress.atebits.com/#94bc3b8a99c63563925686b83b7acbc9
- Seemed like a long game, but actually only 24 words.
- Closely matched
- http://replay.letterpress.atebits.com/#fcf54b28d4b8d7274955fafde43a7a45
- How to win quickly
- http://replay.letterpress.atebits.com/#d95895aa868a73ddec6d2e23b2e3048c
- Just 5 words.
- 90 word game
- http://replay.letterpress.atebits.com/#4e8a33330c6c7ff28aeafc4efd9daed1
- They went first, had longer words, played excellent words without cheating, and really hung in there for a long time. But they didn't employ a strong defense in the first few moves. You see the third word, QUOTER, where they went for the Q when they should have reclaimed more of the left wall? Biggest mistake.
- Lost at Cucumber
- I saw how bad this game was going to be for me early on, and I lost:http://replay.letterpress.atebits.com/#776a1f82d46d42ef3333b0e4ac62337d
