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.

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

How to use?
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Letters is not part of the Sugar desktop, but can be added.  Please refer to;

* [How to Get Sugar on sugarlabs.org](https://sugarlabs.org/),
* [How to use Sugar](https://help.sugarlabs.org/), and;
* [Download Letters using Browse](https://activities.sugarlabs.org/), search for `Letters`, then download.

Click on a letter to choose it, or reject it.  Or use the keyboard;

* a letter key will choose that letter if possible, or if not reject that letter,
* enter, or tick; try my word,
* space, or square; make new letters.
* delete, or backspace; reject latest letter,
* up arrow; reject all the letters,
* left or right arrows; move the mouse pointer,

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).
