The Alphabet Game

The Alphabet Game is the classic road-trip game where players look for letters in the surrounding environment. The game starts with the player tasked to find the letter ‘A’ on a road sign, billboard, side of a truck – wherever! Once the letter is found, the player must then find ‘B’, and so on all the way to ‘Z’.

Finding letters

Once the road trip begins, the player can pan and zoom the camera to find letters in the environment. When the letter is found, draw a circle around it and the game will confirm the letter. If the letter is nowhere to be found, use the Drive buttons to advance the road trip and find new signs.

Tips

• Keep in mind, you can read blurry text much better than a computer can, so try to get as clean of a shot of the sign as you can by driving closer to the sign.
• Sometimes it helps to draw the circle a bit larger to get a letter to confirm.
• You might not be able to find every letter in a route. That is ok! The game will end once the end of the route is reached.

Controls

Drive
The ‘DRIVE’ buttons are approximate distances for advancing the road trip route.

Find the displayed letter on a real sign. Circle the whole word if a small circle is hard to read. A confirmed letter advances to the next available photo.

Desktop: left-click and drag to pan. Hold the left button still until a yellow ring appears, then drag outward and release to check. Use the mouse wheel to zoom.

Touch: drag to pan. Pinch or spread two fingers to zoom. Hold one finger still until a yellow ring appears, then drag outward and release to check.

NEXT moves to the next photo. The other DRIVE buttons choose a longer forward step. You cannot move backward along the route.

The run ends when the route ends, even if you have not found Z.

Photos by lvl5 via Mapillary, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

The current photo's source link appears here during your road trip.

Photos are scaled and cropped for viewing. Circle crops are masked and read on your device to check letters.

Road data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); route by OSRM.

End this road trip and tally your run?

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