Change Two Letters Game

Black Hole

Black Hole

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The text below replaces the original Post 1. The original post 1 text is appended.

This topic was spawned by a chance event in another topic, where a sequence of words with very similar ASCII strings was used in a succession of messages. The rules defining the valid succession (in this game) are derived from that initial succession.

The object is to continue the chain of valid English words, obeying the rules of succession at each step. There are no bars to anyone joining in, although a player needs to take care that another player doesn't get a post in first and thereby invalidates his word. There are no penalties, other than having your play ruled invalid and ignored.

There are no winners; the aim is to collectively extend the chain for as long as possible (ultimately it will not be possible to continue the chain in a valid way - the stock of words will run out). One could define a loser though - the person who plays a word for which there is no valid succession (so if you don't want to end up nominated as the donkey, it would be good tactics to have the next word up your sleeve as well, before your play). [As a corollary, one could also create a checkmate position, where the only valid successions are dead-ends in one (or a few) play.]

Rules for valid succession:
  • Correctly spelt, recognised English word (not including proper nouns) - ie words that would be valid in Scrabble (but not those transliterated foreign words that appear in Scrabble dictionaries!). Note that not every word normally spelt with an initial capital is a proper noun (or not an excluded one, anyway).

  • The word must not be a repeat of a word played previously (and valid).

  • The new word may differ from the previous word to only a very limited extent:
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    • One or two letters may be altered, without any rearrangement of letter order; or

    • One letter may be added (in any position), without any rearrangement of the other letters; or

    • One letter may be removed (from any position), without any rearrangement of the other letters;

    • If a letter has been added or removed, optionally one other letter may be altered.
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  • Any particular player may not play another word until two other words have been played. This is to prevent any one player dominating the play, or to devise a strategy. Players currently barred from playing again due to this rule are referred to as "in nib" - a tribute to the I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue game Mornington Crescent (what do you mean you've never heard of it??!).
Update: in further tribute to Just a Minute, repeating a previous word will be ruled repetition, a word that breaks the rules of succession will be ruled deviation... and if the circumstances suit I might even declare hesitation.

Due to the requirement that words are never repeated, it is necessary to maintain a list of words that have gone before. An alphabetical list is maintained below, currently valid up to and including post 741 748, also check valid plays subsequent to that post).
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Although there are no winners, there are points of pride (which may be awarded forum kudos points - ie "Likes"). For example: playing a different word when there was an obvious one; playing an obscure word (and it would have to be very obscure to impress us!); being the first to play a word beginning with a particular letter (but beware of leading the play up a blind alley and making yourself the donkey!).


Original Post:

This topic is a split from here: http://hummy.tv/forum/threads/assume-v-presume.1453/page-100#post-83971. See post 3 for the rules of the game.


I hate to appear a prude, but wasn't "titillate" rather a big jump in the sequence?
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Mitigate
Militate
Meditate
Medicate...
Titillate
 
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Rule = With no rearrangement, change a maximum of two letters, or add/subtract one letter and optionally change one other letter.
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Mitigate
Militate
Meditate
Medicate
 Educate
Minimum two other turns before the same player gets another crack at it, no repetition, properly spelt English words only!
 
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Educator...........or does it have to end in "cate"? In that case.............dedicate.
 
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Which do you want? Either is within the rules, but we need to know which one to continue the chain from.
 
I created a rule to define the game (post 3). Every game has to have rules to play it by, it's just a question of whether you want to join in. Just waiting for RobH1 to clarify his turn!
 
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Who decided that it was a game, rather than a bunch of ijits waxing lyrical about nothing in particular?:) You can't just say "It's my ball, so I'll make the rules." around here. The rule is, there are no rules.
 
Ah, just awoke, let me stretch a bit! I want dedicate.

It was obviously a wet day everywhere yesterday judging by the comments.:rolleyes:

Eejits, Trev, eejits. :)
 
Was BH's last comment "Boring" with auto-repeat on, or "Boing" as in Zebedee?
I think the former, but assuming the latter...

Trev said:
"Go away." said Florence.
Click to expand...
To mis-quote the Jasper Carrott version - "Go forth and urinate"* said Florence.
And Dougal did so, all over Florence's leg.
[* crossword clue: Go forth and urinate (4,3)]
 
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