Letter Head - New Word Game from Atlas Games

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Atlas Games announced recently plans to release Letter Head, a new word-forming card game, in August 2000, in time for the GenCon gaming convention.

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"Letter Head is a dynamic word-forming card game that's engaging, interactive, challenging, addictive, and above all, fun. Players create words using a special deck of cards that have letters instead of numbers and points instead of suits," according to a press release from Atlas Games. "Missing a crucial letter? No problem! Canny players can bluff their opponents into thinking they've got every letter they need. Social skills and 'emotional intelligence' are just as important as spelling ability."

According to Atlas, Letter Head is an expandable game kit with rules for 14 additional games included with the 124-card Letter Head deck, such as:

Word Slam - a party game requiring a quick mind and quicker hands. Be the first to recognize a word using the shared cards and slam your word on the table before anyone else.

Take a Letter - a variation of the old parlor game Concentration. Players must not only remember the locations of dozens of hidden cards, but must also manipulate them mentally to form words -- before their opponents do.

Letter Head Solitaire - these rules allow one player to enjoy Letter Head.

It is expected that more Letter Head games will be added to the Atlas Games Web site in the future. Designed by Kristan Lawson and Herbert R. Lawson, Letter Head is expected to sell for about $19.95.

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