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Excellent point, tsuwm. I think the challenges make the fun of the game--just seeing how people went about making a connection where one might not be apparent at first.
If we really did want to play, maybe we could set up a three-hour time frame between the posting of a word, and either a challenge or the appearance of a new word. It's pretty easy to see when someone's posted by the AWAD clock.
But there would be another problem. Let's say you challenged ear candy, what then? Would the three-hour time frame then go into action for people to either agree or disagree with your challenge before you could enter the new term?
It might finally just be too unmanageable here.
Sounds like a great game to play in the 3D world, however.
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Sounds like a great game to play in the 3D world, however.It is. It is used on the radio spoof "quiz" game, I'm sorry, I haven't a Clue, where it is absolutely hilarious. But a lot of its humour derives from the speed and wittiness of the contestants and I'm not sure how much would be lost here. I'm game to give it a go, but. (Mind you, International Mornington Crescent would be a hoot - I shall chair a game of it at the Emerald Wordapalooza. Move over, Humph!  )
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...a three-hour time frame...
but but but - that doesn't work, with posters all over the world. Isn't that what tsuwm meant by different posting/reaction times?
I still (thick-headedly, perhaps) do NOT understand this game! have been trying to suss it out by following posts but cannot.
If, for example, A said "deviation" and B said "nose," could C then call B on "nose" because you can have a deviated septum?!
very confusedly yours
mg
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No, Modestgoddess--I wasn't seriously proposing a three-hour time frame. Just mapping out what could occur if we did. Any time frame wouldn't really work here, as tsuwm pointed out. I was simply agreeing with him by showing what could happen, even with a three-hour time frame. Even with a 24-hour time frame, giving everybody a chance to respond to a proposed word, how would we determine which one of the responders had the right to propose the next word?
The game, as proposed, simply won't work. But it does sound like a great game for word hounds, and particularly for argumentative word hounds.
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And [i]f, for example, A said "deviation" and B said "nose," and it were accepted, given the winner is the one who is first to get back to the starting word, what's to stop C from saying "deviation" and declaring victory?
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to quote one of the intermediate emendations, "Ignore what I said about the player reaching the starter word first winning the game - it ends the game. In the end it's the number of points that matter."
so, only a spoil-sport..
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Yeah...but...if closing the loop gets you 15 points as it says in the Bonza post (5th from top of this thread) then you would win if you closed out with the third word... Wouldn't you?
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one *could assume that the scoring would also be emended..
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Errr... yes, also ignore what I said about the scoring regarding the 15 points on the end... I'm not sure this would work with points and stuff but... Mind you, International Mornington Crescent would be a hootTake a look at this site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/h2/h2.cgi?state=view&board=radio4.game&offset=50Somewhere on that site is an online Mornigton Crecent...
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I haven't had the time to really investigate the site (things are downloading really slowly this morning) but I did notice some reference to an Ankh-Morpork version, which sounds quite interesting!
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