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I couldn't find 'letters' by searching on 'letters' in the app store... too many other things came up first. By search for your other games, then going to letters I was able to try it.

Pretty fun, would be nice if it had some of the 'hip' words used these days, "Selfie" etc

(edit, had some stuff in here about would be nice if there was an undo)

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Yes, searching for "Letters" is not great. The irony is that if the app was ranked highly it would show up much higher in the results, so it's a double-edge sword.

Regarding "undoing" a letter selection, you can't, and that was intentional. It simplifies the UI (you can however reset the whole word by trying to submit an invalid word), and even if you could undo, the time you would spend doing it would pretty much wreck your score for that round, so overall it's no good. I know this frustrates some people, but after several weeks of playtesting and hearing this complaint, after the first few rounds that complaint quickly vanished, so I stuck with my decision.

After playing for the last 20 minutes, I agree, undo would get in the way.

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