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![[Loading screen]](/pub/sinclair/screens/load/h/gif/HiddenLetters.gif "Loading screen")
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![[In-game screen]](/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/h/HiddenLetters.gif "In-game screen")
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| Full title | Hidden Letters |
| Year of release | 1983 |
| Publisher | Poppy Programs (UK) |
| Author(s) | Geoffrey R. Sampson, Vera Sampson |
| Machine type | ZX Spectrum 48K |
| Number of players | 1 |
| Controls | Keyboard |
| Type | Educational |
| Message language | English |
| Original publication | Commercial |
| Original price | £4.50 |
| Availability | Available as both Perfect TZX and non-TZX |
| Protection scheme | None |
| Remarks | Vera recalls: "Hidden Letters was our most important program. It either randomly, or according to an algorithm chosen by the teacher, blanked out certain words in a text, which players then had to guess. It had various levels of difficulty. The one thing which we wanted, but could never manage with the memory in a Spectrum, was to get it to accept viable synonyms for words. A revolutionary feature of Hidden Letters was an overlay which we manufactured for the Spectrum keyboard. I was concerned that young children learned lower case letters before capitals, and therefore were having difficulty with the Spectrum keyboard. The overlay was based on a piece of plastic, called a keyboard overlay, which could be bought, and which had cut outs for the keys, which fit over the keys and nicely stayed in place. I then had the lower-case keyboard silk screened on a piece of fairly flexible plastic, which I attached to the keyboard overlay with probably double-sided tape. This overlay then rode above the keys when the overlay was pushed down into place, and made life easier for little ones." |
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| Filename | Size | Type | Origin | Code | Barcode | D.L. | ||
|  | HiddenLetters.tzx.zip | 6,922 | (Perfect TZX tape image) | Original release | |||
|  | HiddenLetters.tap.zip | 6,610 | ((non-TZX) TAP tape image) |
| Filename | Size | Type | |
 | HiddenLetters.gif | 1,424 | (Loading screen) |
| HiddenLetters.scr | 6,912 | (Loading screen dump) |
| HiddenLetters.gif | 1,538 | (In-game screen) |
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| Magazine | Issue | Type | ||
| Home Computing Weekly | 10.83 | page 129 | (Review) | [full page] |
| ZX Computing | 2.84 | page 85 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| Magazine | Issue | Type | ||
| Home Computing Weekly | 7.83 | page 245 | (Classified) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 9.83 | page 138 | (Classified) | [full page] |
| ZX Computing | 10.83 | page 152 | (Classified) | [full page] |
| Personal Computing Today | 11.83 | page 128 | (Advert) | |
| Sinclair User | 12.83 | page 201 | (Classified) | [full page] |
| ZX Computing | 12.83 | page 192 | (Classified) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 2.84 | page 149 | (Classified) | [full page] |
| ZX Computing | 2.84 | page 145 | (Classified) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 4.84 | page 144 | (Classified) | [full page] |
| ZX Computing | 4.84 | page 152 | (Classified) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 5.84 | page 144 | (Classified) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 6.84 | page 144 | (Classified) | [full page] |
| ZX Computing | 6.84 | page 153 | (Classified) | [full page] |
| ZX Computing | 8.84 | page 136 | (Classified) | [full page] |
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