Post by: namida on August 11, 2009, 05:59:44 AM
Here's the rules:
1) On your turn, you post one letter. This letter is added to the current string of letters. For example, if the previous two people posted L, C and Z, and you posted V, the string would then be LCZV.
2) Any words of at least three letters that end the current string, you gain an amount of points equal to the number of letters in that word. For example, if the current string is RAI, and you post N, you get 4 points for the word "RAIN".
3) You can get multiple words, as long as they're all at the end. For example, if the string becomes "CAPE", you would get 4 points for cape and 3 points for ape. However, you would not get any points for cap (the previous player, of course, would have got points for it).
4) The string can only be up to 10 letters long. If it's already 10 letters, when you add your letter to the end, the letter at the start of it should be dropped. For example, if the string is "ABCDEFGHIJ", you would drop the A when you post your new letter, to keep it from going over 10 letters.
5) Once you take a turn, you may not play again until either 3 other people have made a move, or one other person has made a move and 12 hours have passed since your last play. This rule is only in effect from the post on Page 7 announcing it. (Any posts before that announcement are subject to the old rule, which is simply that you may not play twice in a row.)
6) Please repost the entire string in your post, to save everyone from having to look back.
7) Bonus: Getting a 8+ letter word gives you an extra 5 points. Getting 3 or more words in one turn gives you an extra 5 points. You may get both bonuses in a single turn, but you can only get each bonus once per turn.
8) You must point out the words yourself (however, it's acceptable to not point out what they're worth). If you miss one, you lose the points for it. Posts that are edited before being added to the scoreboard are completely void (however, their letter remains in the chain), posts that are edited afterwards retain the credit they had before but do not get any new points for words that were missed. You are not required to specifically point out if you get a bonus. (However, doing so is nice!)
9) While not essential, if you're using obscure words, a reference link is nice.
10) If two or more posts are made at the same or similar time, resulting in both players adding a letter to the same place, please ignore all but the first post. For example, if the string is "XKC", and one person posts D making it "XKCD", and the other posts E making it "XKCE" (instead of the second person seeing the post with D and adding to this), the current string is "XKCD" not "XKCE". In the same way, if the second poster's letter would have got them points, they do not get these points as someone else has already added a letter to that point. If you accidentally do post and miss out a previous player's turn, please edit your post to remove your turn, to avoid confusion.
What words count or don't count:
1) Names of people or places do not count (unless they have another valid use that doesn't fall into these categories). "Stephen" is not acceptable because it exists only as a person's name. "Hope" is fine because even though it's a name, it also has a normal meaning. "Japan" is not acceptable because it is only the name of a country. However, "Turkey" is fine because it has a normal meaning as well. The same goes for words derived from these. For example, "American" does not count because it is derived from the name of a place, America.
2) Plurals, past tense, -ing forms, and so on, do count. However, note that this is only true if the form does not require an apostrophe - unless someone's actually going to go and use an apostrophe as their letter. >_>
3) Overly rude words do not count. To avoid argument, the words considered "overly rude" are the F word, the C word, and the S word, as well as any racial slurs that don't have other, non-offensive meanings. This means that words like "Damn", "Crap" and "Ass" are acceptable. Don't like it, don't play, or find other words to aim for. Just to clarify, in case someone tries to get around this: Plurals and verb conjugations of these words also do not count.
4) Both British and American English are acceptable. So, both "Mum" and "Mom" count.
5) Namida's decision is final as to whether a word counts or not, and in the absence of a contradicting decision by Namida, the mods and admins of the forums also have the authority to decide if a word is valid or not. However, this does not mean you can't contest their decision if you disagree - if you think a word they have ruled as valid shouldn't be, or one they ruled as invalid is actually valid, mention this, preferably with some kind of reference link.
Scoreboard:
namida - 194
minimac94 - 80
Yawg - 26
LemSteven - 18
Dullstar - 16
Pooty - 12
Chmera - 7
And I'll start us off with the letter:
L
Post by: Minim on August 11, 2009, 06:08:34 AM
I
Post by: namida on August 11, 2009, 06:13:58 AM
E
Current string: LIE
3 points for the word "Lie"
Post by: Yawg on August 11, 2009, 06:14:51 AM
4 Points
Post by: namida on August 11, 2009, 06:16:58 AM
String: LIEDA
No new points.
Post by: Yawg on August 11, 2009, 06:20:00 AM
LIEDAD
3 points for DAD
Post by: Minim on August 11, 2009, 06:21:11 AM
3 points for ADO (Yippee! my first points of the game)
Post by: namida on August 11, 2009, 06:21:33 AM
3 points for Dot
Post by: Minim on August 11, 2009, 06:25:10 AM
Post by: namida on August 11, 2009, 06:27:05 AM
LIEDADOTSU
No new words
Post by: Yawg on August 11, 2009, 06:27:55 AM
LIEDADOTSUN
Sun for 3
Post by: namida on August 11, 2009, 06:29:53 AM
4 points for Sunn
Post by: Yawg on August 11, 2009, 06:30:37 AM
DADOTSUNNY
Sunny for 5
Post by: Minim on August 11, 2009, 06:32:12 AM
Post by: namida on August 11, 2009, 06:32:52 AM
No new words
Post by: Yawg on August 11, 2009, 06:33:23 AM
Lay for 3
Post by: namida on August 11, 2009, 06:34:49 AM
Aye for 3
Post by: Minim on August 11, 2009, 06:38:13 AM
DRY for 3 points
Post by: namida on August 11, 2009, 06:39:07 AM
Rye for 3
Post by: Minim on August 11, 2009, 06:40:04 AM
DRYER for 5 points
Post by: namida on August 11, 2009, 06:42:09 AM
Yerk for 4
Post by: Minim on August 11, 2009, 06:43:33 AM
Post by: namida on August 11, 2009, 06:45:09 AM
Koi for 3
Post by: Minim on August 11, 2009, 06:46:28 AM
Koin? That's not a word is it?
Post by: namida on August 11, 2009, 06:48:04 AM
DRYERKOINE
Koine for 5
Post by: Minim on August 11, 2009, 06:49:26 AM
Koines for 6 (Is it a plural?)
Post by: namida on August 11, 2009, 06:50:36 AM
YERKOINEST
Nest for 4
Post by: Minim on August 11, 2009, 06:51:34 AM
Post by: namida on August 11, 2009, 06:54:08 AM
Try for 3
Post by: Minim on August 11, 2009, 06:56:22 AM
Post by: namida on August 11, 2009, 06:56:47 AM
Post by: Minim on August 11, 2009, 06:57:26 AM
Post by: namida on August 11, 2009, 06:58:48 AM
Rig for 3, Wrig for 4
Post by: Minim on August 11, 2009, 06:59:44 AM
Rigs for 4, Wrigs for 5.
Post by: namida on August 11, 2009, 07:00:51 AM
STRYWRIGSO
No new words.
Post by: Minim on August 11, 2009, 07:03:17 AM
]TRYWRIGSOM
Post by: namida on August 11, 2009, 07:05:56 AM
Some for 4
Post by: Minim on August 11, 2009, 07:06:49 AM
MET for 3 points
Post by: namida on August 11, 2009, 07:08:17 AM
WRIGSOMETA
Meta for 4
Post by: Minim on August 11, 2009, 07:11:35 AM
RIGSOMETAL
METAL has 5 points
Post by: namida on August 11, 2009, 07:12:59 AM
Ale for 3, Tale for 4
Post by: Minim on August 11, 2009, 10:36:17 AM
Post by: namida on August 11, 2009, 12:35:30 PM
Post by: Minim on August 11, 2009, 12:44:46 PM
Post by: namida on August 11, 2009, 01:04:07 PM
Quad for 4
Post by: Yawg on August 11, 2009, 04:32:10 PM
Quads for 5
Post by: Minim on August 11, 2009, 06:06:52 PM
Post by: Yawg on August 11, 2009, 08:12:11 PM
SLY 3 points
Post by: Minim on August 11, 2009, 08:19:50 PM
Post by: Yawg on August 11, 2009, 08:24:04 PM
Post by: Dullstar on August 11, 2009, 09:11:15 PM
Post by: Minim on August 12, 2009, 06:50:21 AM
3 points for ice
Post by: namida on August 12, 2009, 08:51:02 AM
Cicer for 5, Icer for 4
Post by: Minim on August 12, 2009, 10:53:40 AM
Post by: namida on August 12, 2009, 11:02:29 AM
Cered for 5, Red for 3
Post by: Minim on August 12, 2009, 11:34:26 AM
Reds for 4.
Post by: namida on August 12, 2009, 04:20:57 PM
Post by: Minim on August 12, 2009, 04:25:19 PM
Post by: namida on August 12, 2009, 04:29:32 PM
Salt for 4, Alt for 3
Post by: Minim on August 12, 2009, 04:31:52 PM
Salty for 5.
Post by: namida on August 12, 2009, 04:33:40 PM
Tye for 3
Post by: Minim on August 12, 2009, 04:37:16 PM
Yes for 3 (Three words when you read across, although that doesn't count as anything.)
Post by: namida on August 12, 2009, 04:46:50 PM
Too late now though]EDSALTYESE
Yese for 4
(Note that "ese" does not count here as it's not an actual English word.)
Post by: Minim on August 12, 2009, 04:49:08 PM
DSALTYESER
Post by: Dullstar on August 12, 2009, 07:26:09 PM
Post by: Minim on August 12, 2009, 07:28:11 PM
Post by: Dullstar on August 12, 2009, 07:30:43 PM
Post by: Minim on August 12, 2009, 07:43:58 PM
DSALTYESER
SALTYESEF
Dullstar has ruined the game by swapping the R with the F. Shall we start a new string?
Post by: Chmera on August 12, 2009, 11:06:00 PM
'Go' for 2. =P
Post by: namida on August 13, 2009, 06:51:58 AM
However, please look out for same or similar time posts in the future - if this is made, please make sure you continue on from the one posted first. I'll add a note about that to the rules.
Chmera: Only words 3 letters or longer count.
Back to the game...
TYESEFFGOD
God for 3
Post by: Minim on August 13, 2009, 07:07:57 AM
Gods for 4.
Post by: namida on August 13, 2009, 07:46:57 AM
ESEFFGODSL
Post by: Minim on August 13, 2009, 12:52:06 PM
Post by: namida on August 13, 2009, 01:48:09 PM
Sled for 4, Led for 3
Post by: Minim on August 13, 2009, 04:01:30 PM
Post by: namida on August 13, 2009, 04:18:39 PM
Sledge for 6, Ledge for 5, Edge for 4, plus 5 point bonus for 3+ words
Post by: Minim on August 13, 2009, 04:21:19 PM
)Sledges for 7, Ledges for 6, Edges for 5, plus 5 point bonus for 3+ words
Post by: namida on August 13, 2009, 04:50:22 PM
Gest for 4
Post by: Minim on August 13, 2009, 07:20:39 PM
Stu for 3
Post by: namida on August 14, 2009, 08:54:04 AM
SLEDGESTUN
Stun for 4
Post by: Minim on August 14, 2009, 09:16:45 AM
Stung for 5
Post by: namida on August 14, 2009, 09:59:57 AM
Tunga for 5
Post by: Minim on August 14, 2009, 11:13:47 AM
Gal for 3.
Post by: namida on August 14, 2009, 02:03:49 PM
Gale for 4, Ale for 3 (...okay, how many times have I had the word "Ale" so far?
)
Post by: namida on August 14, 2009, 02:05:15 PM
Post by: Dullstar on August 15, 2009, 01:17:51 AM
ESTUNGALEM
Does Lem count? If so, Lem for 3.
Post by: LemSteven on August 15, 2009, 03:17:48 AM
Post by: Minim on August 15, 2009, 08:10:15 AM
Post by: namida on August 15, 2009, 09:32:54 AM
UNGALEMMIG
Mig for 3.
Post by: Minim on August 15, 2009, 10:41:02 AM
Post by: namida on August 15, 2009, 01:06:56 PM
Post by: Minim on August 15, 2009, 04:12:48 PM
Post by: namida on August 15, 2009, 07:07:25 PM
Greed for 5, Reed for 4
Post by: namida on August 15, 2009, 07:13:04 PM
From this post onwards, once you take a turn, you may not take another turn until either:
1) Three other people have taken turns
or
2) One other person has taken a turn and 12 hours have elapsed since your last turn
The first condition allows for a bit more variety and gives people a more fair chance, while the second condition is to prevent the game from dying out when only two or three people are playing.
Note that this rule only applies to turns played after this post. Therefore, the two turns that came before it (minimac's and mine) are subject to the old rule. In other words, minimac is currently able to take a turn as soon as he wants, and I'm able to take my next one as soon as anyone else takes one after this post. This is because those turns were taken before the new rule was brought into effect. However, any posts from this point on are subject to the new rules, meaning that after you play them, you cannot play again until one of those two conditions is fulfilled.
I have updated the rule list in the starting post to reflect this change.
Post by: Dullstar on August 16, 2009, 12:52:13 AM
Greedy for 6
Post by: namida on August 16, 2009, 03:16:10 AM
Dye for 3
Post by: Chmera on August 16, 2009, 06:30:34 PM
Dyes for 4, Yes for 3.
Post by: LemSteven on August 16, 2009, 09:56:57 PM
Ess for 3
Post by: Dullstar on August 17, 2009, 02:38:33 AM
Post by: namida on August 17, 2009, 05:44:43 AM
Spa for 3
Post by: Dullstar on August 17, 2009, 05:53:39 PM
EEDYESSPAN
Span for 4
Post by: Pooty on August 17, 2009, 05:59:53 PM
Spang for 5, Pang for 4
Post by: namida on August 18, 2009, 06:41:44 AM
We can clearly see those posts were more than 12 hours apart.DYESSPANGA
Panga for 5, Anga for 4
Post by: Dullstar on August 18, 2009, 05:13:27 PM
Gas for 3
Post by: LemSteven on August 18, 2009, 06:34:19 PM
Gash for 4, Ash for 3
Post by: namida on August 19, 2009, 08:27:23 AM
Ashy for 4, Shy for 3
Post by: Dullstar on August 23, 2009, 08:09:28 PM
Post by: Pooty on August 23, 2009, 10:22:06 PM
Post by: namida on August 24, 2009, 05:37:25 AM
Dry for 3
Post by: Pooty on August 24, 2009, 03:29:03 PM
Rye for 3
Post by: namida on August 25, 2009, 09:34:34 AM
Yen for 3
(yeah, I know I could've got more with a different letter, but I didn't want to use the same combination that was used earlier
)
Post by: Dullstar on August 28, 2009, 04:53:53 AM
End for 3
Post by: namida on August 28, 2009, 09:45:45 AM
Ends for 3
Post by: Pooty on August 28, 2009, 11:24:01 AM
HYDRYENDST
Post by: LemSteven on August 30, 2009, 05:19:34 AM
Sty for 3
Post by: Pooty on August 30, 2009, 03:56:47 PM
Post by: LemSteven on August 31, 2009, 09:02:26 AM
Style for 5
Post by: namida on August 31, 2009, 12:13:43 PM
Styled for 6, Led for 3
Post by: asbaarle on May 08, 2010, 04:56:53 PM
no points
Post by: Dullstar on June 17, 2010, 04:37:34 AM
Dad for 3
Post by: ccexplore on June 17, 2010, 04:51:29 AM
dads for 4, ads for 3