Beat the Letter Back to the game Beat the Letter Back to the game Every day, Beat the Letter deals one hand of five letters, the same five for everyone. Name a song that starts with each letter, as fast as you can. Your time is your score, and tomorrow there is a new hand.
Play today’s handOnce more than ten people have played the day’s hand, your result shows what share of them you beat, where you rank, the median run, and a chart of everyone’s finish times with yours marked. More songs always beat fewer; on the same number, the faster time wins. Until then it counts the players so far and keeps your time, so you can come back later that day to see where it lands.
Below that are the people you have played rounds with, and how each of them did on the same five letters, or that they have not played yet.
Tap Share your result and your phone’s share sheet opens. Where the browser has no share sheet, the result is copied instead. It is a few lines for the group chat: a square for each letter, green for a song on the first try, yellow for one that took more tries, black for a miss. It never gives away which songs you named.
Beat the Letter · Daily #40 🟩🟨🟩⬛🟩 4/5 in 2:13 🔥 3-day streak Can you beat it? 👇
The link at the end previews as a card of your run: your letters, how each went, and your time. Whoever opens it is one tap from today’s hand, and if they have already played, they see their own result next to yours.
Rather play with friends? A round of Beat the Letter deals two to five players a hand each, and the first to fill theirs sets the time to beat. How to play.
Play today’s handAt midnight UTC. That is 8 p.m. Eastern and 5 p.m. Pacific while daylight saving time is on, and an hour earlier in winter. A new hand is dealt then, and its number goes up by one.
Yes. Every player in the world gets the same five letters that day, dealt from the English alphabet, whichever language they play the game in. That is what makes one person’s result comparable with anybody else’s.
No. The stopwatch starts when you reveal your letters and stops when your fifth song locks, and that time is your score. If a letter beats you, you can finish early with what you have. The only limit is the end of the day: a run still going at midnight UTC stops there.
No, one run per player per hand. Opening the daily again takes you back to the run you started, or to your result once it is done.
More songs beat fewer, and on the same number of songs the faster time wins, to the second. Once more than ten people have played the day’s hand, your result shows what share of them you beat, your rank, the median run and a chart of everyone’s finish times.
Play the daily hand on consecutive days and your streak grows by one each day. Miss a day and it starts again from one. Your result shows your current streak.
No. You can play as a guest, and your streak is kept in the browser you play in. Sign in, with Google or with a link sent to your email, and it stays with your account, on any device.
No. Each hand can only be played on its own day, and there is no archive of past hands. Tomorrow’s letters cannot be seen in advance either.
Yes. It runs in the browser on any phone or computer, with nothing to buy and nothing to download.