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Seems to me that you don't need to sign people up to play unless they want to be the Poster. Anyone else should just be able to jump in and guess the mystery word.
I'm sure that's true. As I understood it, maverick simply wanted to make sure that there would be enough participants to make it interesting. Surely, anyone who guessed the word would jump at the chance to set their own mystery word? In the unlikely event that my meagre wits stumbled upon the answer, I would love to set the next one, something discreet, like supercallifragilisticexpialidocious, for example.
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you don't need to sign people
This is true for the new guesser, but as Jackie pointed out it will make it infinitely harder to know who to look out for when the parcel is announced as changing hands. So to compromise I propose to post a list of current possible participants, which can be edited to be kept current, as people message me to add or delete a name. Thus anyone new can join immediately prior to offering a guess.
And at wise tsuwm's suggestion, I also propose a revision to the scoring to penalise poor guesses, in case the poor poser gets pi**ed off with problematic propositions! So how about if each wrong guess also counts as a point to the Poster?
BTW, the first fox's brush has been sighted at least 10 times in the messages bounced to my email account from yesterday, so I will now do a current check-up...
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The result is posted under PTP Tally - I suggest we try and keep that thread purely for the tagging on of who has just been unmasked with their score, and append general ongoing messages on this thread.
BTW, to check the result, I noted the time of the private guess post sent to me, then used the Search feature to list the incidence of the target word within the target timeframe and threads. I then needed to check by opening each one that was Max's for the number of times he had fitted it in - being highlighted in bold makes this a quick job.
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clarification please: does the multiple use of the "secret word" in one post count as 'one' or 'multiple' uses?
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multiple use of the "secret word" in one post
...should score 1 for each usage, I reckon, as it gives a much fatter clue for us to notice a pattern.
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The gowk is on the run again. Time once more for the indomitable to pursue the ineffable, once the new Poster checks for the relevant private message. 
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Thanks for giving the heads up about posting general messages here, tsuwm  And heads up again peeps - Bridget has joined as a potential victim, uh, player
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Hang onto your hats, folks, we're off again!
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hats, we're off.. or should that be heads?! Do I sense a sentence looming, a kind of higher function metagame - or would that be Simply Improper?
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mav, I'm going to withdraw my name from consideration. personally, I'm finding it too distracting to look for repeating words along with reading for content (and puns) in the usual proliferation of posts, so I don't think I should leave my name in the mix, undoubtedly adding to the noise.
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Tsuwm, you said, "I'm going to withdraw my name from consideration".
WAIL !!
Oh, I hope to see a post that you're back in!
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