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This game is all about thinking up clever words that will be hard to decipher and cleverly combining letter pieces to guess secret words.
Decipher is a different kind of word game for 2–4 players. Players use four differently-shaped letter pieces to create and solve word puzzles. In each round, a different player builds a secret word puzzle. The others know only which letter pieces are in the secret word and gather clues and points by asking about where letter pieces go. Can you decipher the the secret word?
The Letter Piece Game system is a special way to build letters from four different basic shapes. The idea for the Letter Piece Game™ system comes from the game designers of Wordsmith — Bill Eberle, Greg Olotka, Peter Olotka, and Jack Kittredge — whose credits include Cosmic Encounter, Dune, Hoax, and more.
Decipher includes the same playful semi-transparent colored plastic letter pieces found in Wordsmith. A special plastic insert turns the game box into a game component.
—description from the publisher
| Ages | 10+ |
|---|---|
| Players | 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players |
| Play Time | 30m |
| Designer | Bill Eberle, Greg Olotka, Peter Olotka |
| Theme | Deduction, Word Game |
| Publisher | HeidelBÄR Games |
shammois
Take Hangman and mix it with Mastermind, mash in some shiny plastic bits et voila - a more-than-decent word game. Best with 2 though.
shruthless
Hearsay: Word guessing game wherein a master thinks of a 5 letter word in secret and hands out pieces of the letters to guessers who try to figure out the word. Looks very pretty, but likely a kids game, and not sure if it's of much appeal to even them.
pusboyau
So far the hit game of October school holidays 2020. So far we haven't bothered with the scoring as the process of handing out pieces, deducing where they would go and what 3 may be left is engaging enough. So playing this way makes it good for recruiting spectators who can shout out guesses and I suspect this will lead into Letter Jam. My only concern is that in the scoring mode I may need to regulate when out of turn guesses can be made, maybe that window of opportunity will be between the players turn to process the addition of the piece and before the next one is handed out.