For Teachers · Homeschool Co-ops · Middle & High School, College, ESL & Adult Ed
Character analysis,
disguised as a party game.
Letter Me This! has one engine: roll a letter, race the timer, describe whoever's in the Hot Seat, then defend your words. Put a character from your novel in that hot seat, and the same engine runs the discussion you've been trying to spark all week.
How a classroom round works
In the party game, a player takes the Hot Seat. In your classroom, it’s the character, historical figure, or concept you’re teaching — Gatsby, Hamilton, mitosis.
The 20-sided letter die sets ONE letter. Students get 90 seconds to write words starting with it that describe the Hot Seat. The number die caps how many words they play.
Answers are read aloud. Unique, defensible words score. Every disagreement gets the only follow-up that matters: “Where in the text?”
Watch one round happen
The Great Gatsby · Hot Seat: Jay Gatsby · Letter: S
Groups of 4–6, mid-novel. Ninety seconds on the timer. Pencils move. Then the reveal, around one table:
Ten minutes, one roll, one character — and the group has touched wealth, reinvention, obsession, and whether hope is noble or delusional. Next round: same letter, Daisy in the hot seat. Watch what happens when someone writes “smart” and another student reads the “beautiful little fool” line out loud.
It isn't just English class
Letter R: “relentless,” “revolutionary,” “reckless.” Which is he? Now they’re debating primary sources.
A Socratic seminar in a canister. Your teen lit circle rolls a letter, defends their words from the text, and the discussion runs itself — parent-led by design, because you’ve been the facilitator all along. And when lessons end, it’s family game night.
Simpler subjects, everyday vocabulary, and the timer makes production practice feel like a game instead of a drill.
Icebreakers, seminar warm-ups, psych and philosophy concepts — anywhere precise language and defended claims matter.
See the Lesson Builder in action
Two books — The Great Gatsby and Where the Red Fern Grows — from a blank form to a printed lesson plan, student worksheet, and score sheet. See how easy it is, and how much it does for you.
2 min 47 sec · sound on for the walkthrough
Design your own lesson in two minutes
Tell the Lesson Builder what your class is studying — it drafts the activity and prints three pages: a teacher lesson plan, a student worksheet with evidence lines, and a score sheet with your hot seats across the top.
Get the game into your room
Everything in the game, plus five full sets of dice — one canister runs five groups at once (up to 40 students, or an entire co-op day). Same game, same rules, five hot seats rolling at the same time. Free Lesson Builder access with student worksheets and score sheets included.
Hand-built by us from our first batch and signed by Jami — quantities are small while the next production run is on its way. Ships free.
🎒 Get the Classroom KitNot a teacher — but you know one? Put Letter Me This! in a classroom you love. Sponsor a full Classroom Kit — five dice sets, five groups at once — and we'll get it to your nominated teacher, hand-signed by Jami, like every game from our first batch.
Name your teacher right at checkout — or leave it to us and we'll place it with a classroom that's asked for one.
🍎 Sponsor a Teacher — $49.99The Lesson Builder and every printable are designed for the adult running the room — you're the facilitator, and nobody knows your students better than you. One canister runs a group of 3–8, a full activity takes about 20 minutes, zero prep, zero screens. Single games are on Amazon and the shop.
Teachers keep stealing our party game. We're okay with it. · Age-graded 13+ · Roll. Write. Reveal. Learn.