2025Ben Bronstein, Jade Shames, Kat Thek
- Videos
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- Creators
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Mainly reviews
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Dead Letters
2026Jade Shames
1 - 7 players
5 - 30 min
From BoardGameGeek
In Dead Letters you play as a 1915 Dead Letter Office employee who has fallen asleep at your desk. The game is a dreamy landscape of "postage punk" aesthetics and early 20th century mail motifs. But at its heart, it's a simple word game. Contribute letters to a central word to change it. Some letters give you special abilities. Figure out how you can outsmart your opponents with chain effects and Red Letters in order to rid yourself of all your cards and win! Or play cooperatively, placing cards on two central boards to make them both read the same word, without getting stuck (every card you play has to make a new word). -description from designer
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Which Dead Letters video should I watch?
Dead Letters has 3 videos from 3 creators: 2 how-to-play guides and 1 playthrough. They date from September 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "Dead Letters is Barnes & Noble's September Game of the Month!" by Barnes & Noble, which runs 3 min.
To see it played, watch "Dead Letters — Teach and Solo Gameplay" by Ezeekat.
If you like it, try Hex Effects, MUD, All True Believers and Side Effects, also by Jade Shames.
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About Dead Letters
From BoardGameGeek:
In Dead Letters you play as a 1915 Dead Letter Office employee who has fallen asleep at your desk. The game is a dreamy landscape of "postage punk" aesthetics and early 20th century mail motifs. But at its heart, it's a simple word game. Contribute letters to a central word to change it. Some letters give you special abilities. Figure out how you can outsmart your opponents with chain effects and Red Letters in order to rid yourself of all your cards and win! Or play cooperatively, placing cards on two central boards to make them both read the same word, without getting stuck (every card you play has to make a new word). -description from designer
Designer
Jade Shames
Publisher
Pillbox Games
Categories
Word Game
Mechanics