Last Letter First: Word Game2.300 - App Store

If you’ve been looking for an exciting and challenging word game to help you build your vocabulary and exercise your brain either alone or competing with others, you’ve come to the right place!

Last Letter First is a free online word game that can be played on your own, with friends, or with anyone while competing for points or playing just for fun.

Download it and play for free!
Last Letter First Game Rules
Last Letter First is a simple vocabulary game, but the possibilities for gameplay are endless.

Step 1: A player enters a word.
Step 2: The next player then enters a word that starts with the last letter of the previous player’s word.
Step 3: The next player then enters a word that starts with the last letter of the previous player’s word.
...and this repeats until a player misspells or repeats an already played word.

Points are calculated based on the points assigned to each letter of the word.

When a player repeats or misspells a word, the player gets a strike.

A player’s game ends when they get 3 strikes and the last player in the game WINS.

For example,
- Player 1 enters the word “sailboat” for X points.
- Player 2 enters the word “trumpet” for Y points (“trumpet” starts with the last letter of “sailboat”).
- Player 3 enters the word “trafic” which is misspelled so they get a strike.
- Player 1 enters the word “tiresome” for Z points (“tiresome” starts with the last letter of “trumpet”).
- Player 2 enters the word “excellent” for X points (“excellent” starts with the last letter of “tiresome”).
- Player 3 enters the word “tickle” for Y points (“tickle” starts with the last letter of “excellent”).
...
And the game goes on until two out of the three players get three strikes.

The game can be played in English, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, and Spanish with Russian and Ukrainian coming soon.

Features & Benefits:
- Free to play
- Build your vocabulary (with definitions and pronunciation too)
- Learn & practice English, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, and Spanish (with other languages coming soon)
- Play with friends and family
- Find new friends and play with anyone
- Play against the computer, aka "Fin AI"
- Earn points
- Earn badges
- Earn bonus points with Gem Words
- Share your achievements to social media
- Dominate the leaderboard
- Win tournaments to show off your skills AND to win cash prizes

Terms of use: https://lastletterfirst.com/terms-of-service/
Privacy policy: https://www.lastletterfirst.com/privacy-policy/

Version History - PLAY AS GUEST: jump straight into a game without creating an account and keep your games when you sign up later
- Tournaments now highlight the top finishers with awards and badges
- Let you know when a new version is available
- Refresh automatically when you return to the app
- Word pronunciations load faster
- Leaderboard filters now show all players by default with more accurate results
- Updated Terms of Service
- Various stability and performance improvements 2.300 Sep 29 * Strengthened fair play protections during games.
* Added sentence pronunciation on the Play screen word definition pop-up.
* Improved reliability of live game updates.
* Fixed long tournament names not wrapping properly and public games occasionally disappearing while scrolling.
* Fixed a blank screen after tapping the logo during an ongoing game
* Fixed a "Now Playing" status that could show at the wrong time.
* Lots of stability and performance improvements. 2.290 Aug 28 New stuff:
- Who's online? A shiny new activity indicator shows when your opponents were last seen and a popup shows the details.
- Push notifications — we'll ping you when there's news, so you never miss out.
- GEM Word Points now get their own spot on your Account page (and no longer photobomb your Max Word Score).
- Tournament QR codes are tappable — scan, tap, and you're straight into the game.
- Tournament pages now jump you right to the current leaderboard, no extra taps needed.

Squashed bugs:
- Chat bubbles behaving themselves on smaller screens
- Streaks show real numbers instead of a spooky "undefined"
- Your Games actually sorts the way it should
- Player names no longer ghost you mid-game
- Inactive tournaments can't sneak into new games anymore
- Can't create an account without a username anymore (nice try)
- Lots of other tweaks, updates, and fixes to improve the game experience

Thanks for playing — go get that streak going! 2.280 Jul 28 - New AI powered word definitions AND pronunciations for English, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, and Spanish (don't forget you can also play against FinAI in all these languages too!)
- New Leaderboard metrics & filters - see how you're doing against other players by # of games and by experience
- Lots of other tweaks, updates, and fixes to improve the game experience 2.270 Jun 29 - FinAI is now available for French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, and Spanish game play - get challenged in all our game play languages!
- Cleanup the Tournaments screen
- Lots of other tweaks, updates, and small fixes to improve the game experience for you 2.260 Jun 1 - Real-time updating of game listings so you always know the status of your games
- Lots more FAQ content to get you started and keep you playing
- Improved visibility for the help system
- Added more hints to the game play HINTS tab
- Improved unsubscribe request process
- Lots and lots of other small tweaks & fixes to improve the game experience for you 2.250 May 5 - Many changes to running games list to make finding games easier (public game indicator, chat message indicator, sorting)
- Strike count shown as text during game play
- Lots of other tweaks, improvements, and enhancements to make the overall experience better! 2.240 Apr 8 - Chat from the game lobby allowing players to interact before a game starts
- Game creator can set the game timeout duration to 1, 4, 6, 12, 24, 48, 72, or 96 hours (default is 24 hours)
- Simplify the process for new and logged out players to join a tournament via scanning of the QR code
- Gem Words can be configured to set maximum # of times a player can earn the Gem Word bonus points
- Lots of other tweaks, improvements, and enhancements 2.230 Mar 16 - PORTUGUESE! The app and game play are now available in Portuguese
- Fixed game "winner" logic: last player with less than 3 strikes is the winner
- Block signups where username is blank
- Added tournament default sort order
- Improved gem words
- Lots of small tweaks, fixes, and improvements to make the game better for players 2.220 Feb 24 - Lots of other tweaks and fixes to make everyday game play faster and MORE FUN!

Don't forget to checkout tournaments, Fin AI, and all the other recent features! 2.21 Feb 2 - New Metrics for Tournaments & Leaderboard: Streak Days, GEM Words
- Lots of other tweaks and fixes to make everyday game play faster and MORE FUN!
- Timed games hotfix
- Game play hotfix 2.202 Jan 20 - New Metrics for Tournaments & Leaderboard: Streak Days, GEM Words
- Lots of other tweaks and fixes to make everyday game play faster and MORE FUN!
- Timed games hotfix 2.201 Jan 13 - New Metrics for Tournaments & Leaderboard: Streak Days, GEM Words
- Lots of other tweaks and fixes to make everyday game play faster and MORE FUN! 2.200 Jan 6 - New login/signup process
- Reordered homepage widgets to show more of what you want to see
- Tournament widget on the homepage to surface more tournament game play
- Join the LLF monthly tournaments automagically - don't forget, you can create your own tournaments ;-)
- Tournaments can allow Fin AI and Single player games
- Improving the click on words for definitions and pronunciations
- Lots of other tweaks and fixes to make everyday game play faster and MORE FUN! 2.190 12/08/2025 - Click on words to see their definitions and listen to their pronunciation
- Make it easier to see status of games in Your Games and On Going games
- Add avatar to the Carousel
- Reminders to help you keep in the game
- Lots of other small tweaks and fixes to make everyday game play faster and more fun 2.180 11/06/2025 It's here! The single most requested feature in LLF HISTORY: PLAY AGAINST THE COMPUTER (aka, Fin AI)
Other great features in this latest release:
- Start games with Players directly from the Leaderboard page
- Split players into individual games from the game lobby page
- Remove players from the game lobby page
- Flywheel improvements

- Changes to improve the stability and fairness of tournaments
- Lots of other small tweaks and fixes to make everyday game play faster and more fun 2.170 09/25/2025 It's here! The single most requested feature in LLF HISTORY: PLAY AGAINST THE COMPUTER (aka, Fin AI)

PLEASE UPDATE ASAP:
- Changes to improve the stability and fairness of tournaments
- Last player in a multi-player game now automatically wins
- Improved the "+ Add Players" pop-up to make it easier and faster to invite other players
- More reminders to help get games started
- Flywheel improvements
- Lots of other small tweaks and fixes to make everyday game play faster and more fun 2.160 09/09/2025 Its here! The single most requested feature in LLF HISTORY: PLAY AGAINST THE COMPUTER (aka, Fin AI)

And there's more:
- Improved the "+ Add Players" pop-up to make it easier and faster to invite other players
- More reminders to help get games started
- Flywheel improvements
- Lots of other small tweaks and fixes to make everyday game play faster and more fun 2.150 08/25/2025 - Chat reminder email
- More tweaks, improvements, and fixes - please send us feedback on any suggestions! 2.140 07/23/2025 - Rewards for Badge achievements - check them out to see what you've earned!
- Public Game widget on the homepage to make it easier to find new games to play
- Chat new message indicator to make it harder to miss chats from other players
- Lots and lots of even more tweaks, improvements, and fixes - please send us feedback on any suggestions! 2.131 07/08/2025 - Rewards for Badge achievements - check them out to see what you've earned!
- Public Game widget on the homepage to make it easier to find new games to play
- Chat new message indicator to make it harder to miss chats from other players
- Lots and lots of small tweaks, improvements, and fixes - please send us feedback on any suggestions! 2.13 07/01/2025 - Home page flywheel notifications showing recent player achievements - click to challenge those players to a game
- View game details from the finished games list - share those achievements to social media to show off your skills!
- See game join requests from the Your Games and On Going games widgets
- Lots and lots of bug fixes and performance improvements 2.12 06/03/2025 - Share your achievements to social media
- Additional tournament and leaderboard metrics for more competition
- Partners information page
- Performance tweaks and bug fixes 2.11 05/08/2025 - TOURNAMENT functionality! Create your own tournaments where you can show off the players performance lots of different ways!
- Performance and scalability tuning
- Lots of other bug fixes and minor tweaks 2.10 03/11/2025 - Gem words: bonus words that earn you extra points (watch our social media and email for details)
- New way to measure your performance: Total # of Rounds
- New theme: BASKETBALL
- Emoji support in chat
- Performance and scalability tuning
- Lots of other bug fixes and minor tweaks 2.9 01/09/2025