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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Botticelli #3387 06/09/00 03:11 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic OP Carpal Tunnel OP AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Can anyone point me to the rules of the word game "Botticelli?" It involves taking a word, making a pun on it, and having the next person pun on that (I think). For example, borrowing from goodgold's thread: Rodomontade? Isn't that a French dish on wheels? (i.e. roulade) I've always wanted to know how to play this game, and have only heard references to it. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Botticelli #3388 06/09/00 06:50 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass what is it about this guy and his eponymous games? is it all just because he played a shell game with the Medici family? there is B for Botticelli, a great family travel game (of which Pynchon had the characters in one of his books playing a 'strip' version); there is Botticelli, another quiz game where the name is used for scoring (sort of like in H-O-R-S-E); and now a punning version, with which I am not familiar. but wait, college kids love to pun and probably play B for Botticelli with all kinds of twisted rules. anyway, here are a couple of links, one with the basic family version and the second a transcript of a Swarthmore radio call-in version; you be the judge. http://www2.tipworld.com/tiparchive/tips/famtravel-html/nov99/29Nov99asap.html http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/org/swil/SWILnews/Spring96/Sp96_10.txt+Botticelli+pun+game&hl=en Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,317 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 759 guests, and 1 robot. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 31 A C Bowden 13 LukeJavan8 1 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 tsuwm 10,542 wofahulicodoc 10,534 LukeJavan8 9,916 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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