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Word game for everyone
« on: May 14, 2009, 06:23:08 PM »
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Rules: Your word must start with the last letter of the last word posted and contain at least two letters of that same word. (In other words, the last letter plus at least one other letter.)

So if we start with "lamp", the next word might be "plural".

Please do not repeat words that have been used before. You can check if a word has been used before at the bottom of the page using the keyword search. That function will locate every post in this thread containing the specified word.

To make it more challenging, you can try to incorporate as many letters of the preceeding word as you can into the new word.

It would be best to avoid proper nouns (names of people or places) unless that name has been incorporated into or converted into and used as a common noun such as Chrysler, Dodge, Philbrick, Phillips, Salchow, and so forth.

Avoid words ending in Y or X because words that start with the letters Y or X are in rather short supply in the English language. Exacerbating the problem is the fact the words ending in Y are very easy to make in English. Early on in the game some of us thought that we would be clever by using lots of words ending in Y, thus making it difficult on the others, but then we realized that if we kept it up for very long we would rapidly choke the game out of existence. So now we avoid words ending in X and Y.

Words should be ones that can be found in an English dictionary. (Not an encyclopedia or Wikipedia.) It's fine if it's an esoteric word from a 600,000 word dictionary but it should appear in an English dictionary somewhere. Scrabble dictionary words are okay too.

I'll start: Puzzle.
Quote from: French G.
I was always pleasant, friendly and within arm's reach of a gun.

Quote from: Standing Wolf
If government is the answer, it must have been a really, really, really stupid question.

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Re: Word game for everyone
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2009, 06:29:26 PM »
Employ?
One day at a time.

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Re: Word game for everyone
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2009, 06:41:14 PM »
Hey, a question mark is cheating!  :)



Yellow?

Or does it have to make sense in some sort of context?
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Re: Word game for everyone
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2009, 06:44:24 PM »
Weltanschauung?

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Re: Word game for everyone
« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2009, 06:49:54 PM »
Gemutlicht

(Wow! It didn't long for this thread to spin out of control..... =D =D =D)
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Sweet memories to drive us on,
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Re: Word game for everyone
« Reply #5 on: May 14, 2009, 06:50:14 PM »
title

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Re: Word game for everyone
« Reply #6 on: May 14, 2009, 06:50:33 PM »
telephone
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. - Thomas Jefferson

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. - William Pitt the Younger

Perfectly symmetrical violence never solved anything. - Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth

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Re: Word game for everyone
« Reply #7 on: May 14, 2009, 06:52:26 PM »
Excelsior!
Look, tiny text!

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Re: Word game for everyone
« Reply #8 on: May 14, 2009, 06:52:32 PM »
Epinephrine. 
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Re: Word game for everyone
« Reply #9 on: May 14, 2009, 07:22:32 PM »
Epiphany.
Impressed yet befogged, they grasped at his vivid leading phrases, seeing only their surface meaning, and missing the deeper current of his thought.

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Re: Word game for everyone
« Reply #10 on: May 14, 2009, 07:23:29 PM »
Yankee.

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Re: Word game for everyone
« Reply #11 on: May 14, 2009, 07:37:37 PM »
Endoscopic


Remember not to use words ending in X or Y.
Quote from: French G.
I was always pleasant, friendly and within arm's reach of a gun.

Quote from: Standing Wolf
If government is the answer, it must have been a really, really, really stupid question.

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Re: Word game for everyone
« Reply #12 on: May 14, 2009, 07:41:26 PM »
Colonic

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Re: Word game for everyone
« Reply #13 on: May 14, 2009, 07:46:16 PM »
Chronic
Look, tiny text!

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Re: Word game for everyone
« Reply #14 on: May 14, 2009, 07:47:01 PM »
Cadiz

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Re: Word game for everyone
« Reply #15 on: May 14, 2009, 07:49:16 PM »
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Re: Word game for everyone
« Reply #16 on: May 14, 2009, 07:49:47 PM »
Cadiz

No proper names unless it's entered the lexicon.
Quote from: French G.
I was always pleasant, friendly and within arm's reach of a gun.

Quote from: Standing Wolf
If government is the answer, it must have been a really, really, really stupid question.

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Re: Word game for everyone
« Reply #17 on: May 14, 2009, 07:51:23 PM »
No proper names unless it's entered the lexicon.
How else do we get Zardoz into this thread?  :laugh:

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Re: Word game for everyone
« Reply #18 on: May 14, 2009, 08:41:27 PM »
nickle
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. - Thomas Jefferson

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. - William Pitt the Younger

Perfectly symmetrical violence never solved anything. - Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth

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Re: Word game for everyone
« Reply #19 on: May 14, 2009, 08:57:57 PM »
Element
One day at a time.

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Re: Word game for everyone
« Reply #20 on: May 14, 2009, 09:23:33 PM »
Cat
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Re: Word game for everyone
« Reply #21 on: May 14, 2009, 09:24:41 PM »
Needs 2 letters fisty.
Quote from: French G.
I was always pleasant, friendly and within arm's reach of a gun.

Quote from: Standing Wolf
If government is the answer, it must have been a really, really, really stupid question.

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Re: Word game for everyone
« Reply #22 on: May 14, 2009, 09:26:40 PM »
Tetraacetylethylenediamine (that one fits both fistful's AND Ex-MA Hole's  =D)
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. - Thomas Jefferson

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. - William Pitt the Younger

Perfectly symmetrical violence never solved anything. - Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth

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Re: Word game for everyone
« Reply #23 on: May 14, 2009, 09:28:07 PM »
eternal
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Re: Word game for everyone
« Reply #24 on: May 14, 2009, 09:29:22 PM »
Land
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. - Thomas Jefferson

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. - William Pitt the Younger

Perfectly symmetrical violence never solved anything. - Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth