What is this?
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Letters is an English word creation game, written by Peter Hewitt.

Inspired by the TV show, "Letters and Numbers".

Players are given 8 letters and have to make as long an English word as possible.

The game has a dictionary of 42,566 English words, with some editorial control.

How to use?
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Letters is part of the Sugar desktop.  Please refer to;

* [How to Get Sugar on sugarlabs.org](https://sugarlabs.org/),
* [How to use Sugar](https://help.sugarlabs.org/).

Mouseless play is possible:

* left & right arrows to move the pointer,
* X = left click to choose a letter,
* O = right click for the Help Screen,
* tick = try my word,
* up arrow to move all the letters back to the top,
* square = deal new letters.

The A to Z keys may also be used.

How to upgrade?
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On Sugar desktop systems;
* use [My Settings](https://help.sugarlabs.org/en/my_settings.html), [Software Update](https://help.sugarlabs.org/en/my_settings.html#software-update), or;
* use Browse to open [activities.sugarlabs.org](https://activities.sugarlabs.org/), search for `Letters`, then download.

How to integrate?
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Letters depends on Python, Pygame, GTK+ 3, and the Sugar Toolkit.

Letters is started by [Sugar](https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar).
