The Letterpress Index
A compendium of facts and figures about the beloved iOS game, prepared in the style of
Harper's Index.
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Price in cents:
99
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Words played in the first week following release:
15 Million
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Position on App Store charts after a week:
14
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Words allowed in Scrabble's Tournament Word List:
267,751
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Words allowed in Letterpress' word list:
271,377
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Words allowed in Letterpress but not Scrabble:
4,021
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Words allowed in Scrabble but not Letterpress:
395
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Characters in longest allowed word in Letterpress:
21
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Longest allowed word in Letterpress:
microminiaturizations
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Number of 21-letter words allowed word in Letterpress, excluding 'microminiaturizations':
2
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Characters in longest allowed word in Scrabble:
15
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Columns on a Scrabble board:
15
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Fifteen-letter words in Scrabble:
5,757
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Most ridiculous allowed word in Letterpress:
zzzs
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Most Germanic word allowed in Scrabble but not Letterpess:
apfelstrudel
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Lines of ruby code used to prepare above figures:
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