Pyramid Pick
Letter Head
Published by Atlas Games
Designed by Kristan Lawson and Herbert R. Lawson
124 cards; $19.95 U.S.
"Today's word is ACNE," David said. He spread the cards out in front of them. The "A" and the "C" stared up at the other players, but the last two letters were face-down.
Jody looked at the bright red L-shaped hair of the guy on the backs of the cards. It was the final round, and David hadn't lied once in the forty-five minutes it had taken them to get this far. Something felt fishy, though.
He studied David's eyes. David did his best not to look shifty.
"Challenge," Jody said. Deb followed his lead; Paul didn't. Paul was quiet that way. He was also 50 points behind.
David slowly turned over the hidden cards. He had the N -- but a Z was hiding where the E should have been. He shook his head ruefully. "Thirty points down the drain," he muttered.
Jody said, "It's all in the bluffing." He certainly hoped it was. The best word in his hand was DIVOT, and the only way he could score enough points to win was by convincing the others he was lying . . .
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Letter Head looks like "Scrabble with cards." You have a hand of cards and you spell words with them, scoring points depending on how rare each letter is and how long the word is. The cards themselves are well-designed, durable and easy to shuffle, but there's no art or visual surprises.
That's okay. Letter Head doesn't need eye candy -- the parts are simple, but the game is great.
Like Scrabble tiles, each card represents a . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: November 3, 2000
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