Beat the Letter Back to the game עברית Beat the Letter Back to the game עברית A party game about the songs you already know. Everyone is dealt a handful of letters and has to name a song starting with each one, against a clock — and at the end the answers become a playlist.
The host picks the alphabets to draw from, how many letters each player gets, and whether two players can be dealt the same letter. Then the letters go out and everyone races.
The first player to fill their hand sets the time to beat, and everyone else gets that long plus a little. The important part is that each player races that from their own start — so a round works at a table with five phones out, and it works just as well when four people answer over the course of a day. Nobody has to be free at the same moment as anybody else.
Your letters stay hidden until you start, and your clock starts with them. That is what keeps the two ways of playing honest against each other.
Type a song and the game checks it against a catalogue — but it will never show you a list to pick from, and it will not accept a fragment. The whole game is naming a song you know, and a search box that completes your half-memory into somebody else's answer would quietly remove the only thing being tested.
Once you have named it, you can choose which recording you meant, and hear a preview of each.
English and Hebrew, and a round can combine them — an English and Hebrew game shuffles all forty-eight letters together, which is also the way to keep hands large when a lot of people are playing.
Song data and the thirty-second previews come from Deezer. Playlists are created on Spotify, and playback happens there rather than here. All of the music belongs to the people who made it; this game hosts, streams and sells none of it.
Built with React, Vite, TypeScript and Firebase, and set in Suez One and Assistant. The full list is on the licences page.
Beat the Letter is a personal project by Maty Michalsky. It shows no advertising and sells nothing to anybody. The one thing it measures is how the game gets used — anonymously, and you can switch it off — which the privacy page says at greater length.