Someone posts a list of words (4 letters or higher, please. If it hits 4 letters by becoming plural, don't bother listing it unless you "really must").
The words are derived from the letters contained in a word or phrase. The person posting the list should tell us how many words are in the target phrase. In the word list, you can't re-use letters. If there's only one "L" in the target phrase, you can't reuse the "L" to make words that have two "L's" (like if your target word was telephone, the word "TeLL" can't be on your list).
The object is for the rest of us to figure out what word or phrase the list of words came from.
I'll start:
I'm working from a two word phrase that's part of the name of a government office I visited today.
Here's the list of words I derived from that two word phrase:
NOTES: - I left off words that Word's spell checker didn't like. If I didn't follow that rule, I could've also added Bucal, and Tubal.
- If you notice, I didn't list ALL possible 4 letter words. I have words like "Beastly" which obviously contains the word "Beast" and even "best". I used some judgement as to which words I could leave off the list without making this MORE difficult. I did, however, put some words on the list even though they could've been derived from other ones listed. Like "Baste" could be gotten from beastly, but that just was too much work to make the proferred list super-efficient.
Anyway, what is the two-word phrase I started with?
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Pass. I'm at work and break is over. Whoever posts next can have it, unless you want to do another one.
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Here's another great game idea for you Bob:
I'll post a number, between ten and twenty digits. You figure out an approximation of the cube root. By hand. To at least the ten-thousandth place. Whoever gets it first can make up the next number. Doesn't that sound like fun Bob? I'll go first:
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: Here's another great game idea for you Bob:
I'll post a number, between ten and twenty digits. You figure out an approximation of the cube root. By hand. To at least the ten-thousandth place. Whoever gets it first can make up the next number. Doesn't that sound like fun Bob? I'll go first:
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That's right! In just 15 minutes, too. Good job.
(and, uh, I wasn't trying all that hard. You could probably find a bunch more words with just a drip of effort. I'm having problems today -- my Dell Computer is not working too well.)
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Enigmatic, not only was I bored, but I was sitting waiting for dinner to arrive and all I had with me was a pen and a drink napkin.
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I'll bet you could have gotten the entire napkin into your nose in the same amount of time. Then you'd have a super awesome story to share on Hatrack. Come on, Bob, be more interesting that way.
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This game takes too much brain power (the boring kind). Not like those cool games that I forgot who posts where you say like "Theres a line of 100 people with red and blue hats and everyone with a red hat dies, but you can only see the hat in front of you, how many people die". You know what I'm talking about.
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