Beat the Letter Back to the game עברית Beat the Letter Back to the game עברית Beat the Letter is a music party game for two to five friends. Everyone is dealt a handful of letters and races to name a song starting with each one. The first player to fill their hand sets the time everyone else has to beat — and at the end, the answers become a playlist.
Start a game — it’s freeThe game will never show you a list of songs to pick from, and it will not accept a fragment: you need at least three characters and most of the title. Each letter has twelve tries, spent whether a guess passes or not, so guessing your way through a catalogue does not work.
Once a title passes, you see only other recordings of that same title — covers, live versions, other performers — so you can pick the version you meant without ever learning a song you did not know.
Every letter is worth points by how hard it is — a Q or a Z pays more than an S — and the weights are retuned from the rounds people actually play. On top of that:
A tie goes to the faster run. Signed-in players’ rounds add up on a monthly and an all-time leaderboard, for everyone or just the people you play with.
Yes. There is nothing to buy, no advertising and nothing to download — it runs in the browser on any phone or computer. You can add it to your home screen and it opens like an app.
Two to five per game. Five is a choice about how long a round takes, not a technical limit: the English alphabet across five players is five letters each.
No. Each player’s clock starts when they open their own letters, so a round works the same around one table as it does across a day. Rounds stay open for 24 hours, and the host can close one early.
No. Everyone plays as a guest by default and gets the whole game. Signing in, with Google or with a link sent to your email, only keeps your score between rounds and puts you on the leaderboard.
Yes. A round can use the English alphabet, the Hebrew one, or both shuffled together — forty-eight letters, which is also how to keep hands big when five people are playing. The game itself switches between English and Hebrew.
Because the whole game is naming a song you know. A search box that finished your half-memory would hand you somebody else’s answer. You type the full title, the game checks it exists, and only then shows you the recordings of that title to choose from.
Any released track whose title starts with your letter. A leading “The” is optional, so “Unforgiven” finds “The Unforgiven”, and a title with an article counts for both letters. Adding the artist helps with short or unusual titles.
Anyone at the table can turn the round’s answers into a Spotify playlist, which anyone can open, free or Premium, without signing in. It is deleted after about two days. To listen together, start a Spotify Jam from it.