2023Matthew Dunstan, Dave Neale
- Videos
- 23
- Creators
- 22
2 - 6 players60 - 90 minLight weight

2019Ondra Skoupý
Mainly reviews. Letter Jam is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 22 reviews, 11 how-to-play guides, 4 recorded sessions, 10 unboxings, and 8 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
Letter Jam is a 2-6 player cooperative word game where players assist each other in composing meaningful words from letters around the table. The trick is holding the letter card so that it's only visible to other players and not to you. At the start of the game, each player receives a set of face-down letter cards that can be arranged to form an existing word. The setup can be prepared by using a special card scanning app, or by players selecting words for each other. Each player then puts their first card in their stand facing the other players without looking at it, and the game begins. The game is played in turns. Each turn, players simultaneously search other players' letters to see what words they can spell out (telling the others the length of the word they can make up). The player who offers the longest word can then be chosen as the clue giver. The clue giver spells out their clue by putting numbered tokens in front of the other players. Number one goes to the player whose letter comes first in the clue, number two to the second letter etc. They can always use a wild card which can be any letter, but they cannot tell others which letter it represents. Each player with a numbered token (or tokens) in front of them then tries to figure out what their letter is. If they do, they place the card face down before revealing the next letter. At the end of the game, players can then rearrange the cards to try to form an existing word. All players then reveal their cards to see if they were successful or not. The more players who have an existing word in front of them, the bigger their collective success. -description from the publisher
Letter Jam has 55 videos from 47 creators: 22 reviews, 11 how-to-play guides, 4 playthroughs, 10 unboxings and 8 other videos. They date from 2019 to December 2025.
To learn the rules, start with "Letter Jam - How to Play tutorial video from Gaming Rules!" by Gaming Rules!, which runs 16 min. For a quicker teach, "Letter Jam App | Demo w/ Czech Games | LIVE SHOW PAX Unplugged [2019]" by Game Trade Media runs 6 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Letter Jam Review - with Tom Vasel" by The Dice Tower. 22 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Letter Jam Playthru" by Tantrum House, one of 4 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Perspectives, The Same Game, Rear Window or Take Time, which share several of its mechanics. It appears in convention videos from GAMA Expo 2019, Gen Con 2019, PAX Unplugged 2019 and Spiel Essen 2019.
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2023Matthew Dunstan, Dave Neale
2 - 6 players60 - 90 minLight weight
2023Wolfgang Warsch
3 - 6 players30 - 45 minLight weight
2022Prospero Hall, Peter Lee
3 - 5 players40 minLight weight
2025Alexi Piovesan, Julien Prothière
2 - 4 players30 minLight weight
From BoardGameGeek:
Letter Jam is a 2-6 player cooperative word game where players assist each other in composing meaningful words from letters around the table. The trick is holding the letter card so that it's only visible to other players and not to you. At the start of the game, each player receives a set of face-down letter cards that can be arranged to form an existing word. The setup can be prepared by using a special card scanning app, or by players selecting words for each other. Each player then puts their first card in their stand facing the other players without looking at it, and the game begins. The game is played in turns. Each turn, players simultaneously search other players' letters to see what words they can spell out (telling the others the length of the word they can make up). The player who offers the longest word can then be chosen as the clue giver. The clue giver spells out their clue by putting numbered tokens in front of the other players. Number one goes to the player whose letter comes first in the clue, number two to the second letter etc. They can always use a wild card which can be any letter, but they cannot tell others which letter it represents. Each player with a numbered token (or tokens) in front of them then tries to figure out what their letter is. If they do, they place the card face down before revealing the next letter. At the end of the game, players can then rearrange the cards to try to form an existing word. All players then reveal their cards to see if they were successful or not. The more players who have an existing word in front of them, the bigger their collective success. -description from the publisher
Designer
Ondra Skoupý
Artists
Dávid Jablonovský, Radim Pech, František Sedláček, Lukáš Vodička, Michaela Zaoralová
Publisher
Czech Games Edition (CGE)
Categories
Mechanics