# The Letter Game

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208594>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 20, 2003, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208594 "2003-10-20T22:28:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208594/1 "2003-10-20T22:28:40Z")

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This is a game I’ve seen played elsewhere, and I thought it would be fun to play here.

Example:

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> Player 1: Viper  
> Player 2: Verily, Incorrigibility Produces Extreme Results. New word: Plate  
> Player 3: Please leave all trash elsewhere. New word: Flour.  
> Player 4: Foolish Liars Ostracize Us Rudely. New word: Sugar.

So the object of the game is to make a sentence out of the letters of the preceding word; I’m sure you can all do it. 🙂 No, the sentence doesn’t have to make a whole lot of sense… although it would be great if it’s recognizable as a sentence.

A note on letter limits: It gets really tough when the word is 10 or more letters long, I’ve heard. (though I’ve heard of the game being played with 12-letter words, obviously those words don’t come up all that often) Please don’t post words that are more than 10 letters long.

Let’s go with the last word in the example for starters:

SUGAR

F\_X

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**Author:** ![DarRRva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/53a042/32.png) [@DarRRva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarRRva)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208594/2 "2003-10-20T22:42:27Z")

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Surely Under Garments are redundant

CHICKEN

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**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208594/3 "2003-10-21T01:22:04Z")

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California Hippies Investigate Chemical Kibbutz, Employ Nerds

Plankton

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**Author:** ![DaisyFace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@DaisyFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaisyFace)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208594/4 "2003-10-21T02:13:36Z")

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Please leave all new kids the old number

Peanuts

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**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208594/5 "2003-10-21T02:31:28Z")

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Please eat all nuts until the sunset.

Book.

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**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208594/6 "2003-10-21T04:50:26Z")

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Buy Only One Kite

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (just kidding)

TRACTOR

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**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-letter-game/208594/7 "2003-10-21T12:33:10Z")

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I’m closing this, the shorter of the duplicated, threads.