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Up-Word
A vocabulary-testing word game | |
The rules are simple, finding the correct words can be challenging.
Rules:
-The player starts with a 1-letter word, either "A" or "I".
-The letter is moved upwards and becomes the second letter of the next word.
-The next word contains one more letter and must use the first letter of the previous
word as its second letter.
-The steps are repeated until the player has run out of ideas for words.
The rules may at first be difficult to understand, so here is an example game (meant to be read from bottom to top):
PHOTOSYNTHESIZE
HALLUCINATIONS
ACCELERATIONS
CATASTROPHES
ATROCIOUSLY
THUNDERING
HARBINGER
ASTONISH
SAMPLES
AMULET
MITTS
ITCH
THE
HA
A
As you can see, the first letter from the previous word becomes the second letter of the next word.
ex.
[A] -> H[A]
[H]A -> T[H]E
[T]HE -> I[T]CH
[I]TCH -> M[I]TTS
The point of the game is to see how many words you can stack up.
*Note:the game would be right-aligned, but Half-Bakery doesn't allow that.
Upwords
http://www.areyouga...m.asp?itemno=HB4312
not the same, but you would have to change your name. [dentworth, Nov 14 2007]
Up-Word example
http://img233.image...3/551/upwordqd6.gif
An example drawing of how it is played. [codell, Jan 09 2008]
[link]
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There's no need for justification. [+] |
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Oops-I meant right-aligned, not justified. |
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I
PI
SPY
PRIM
ROADS
OKAPIS
KACHINA
ACRONYMS
CROSSWORD
RECOGNIZES
ELECTROLYTE
LARYNGECTOMY
ASTRONAUTICAL
SYSTEMATICALLY
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Short, but fun. Could be reversed once a dead end is reached. [+] |
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You would have to be pretty smart to play this. I thought superghost was hard. |
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Too bad the first letter has to be a word. The game might lossen up a bit if you could use any letter. |
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there is a game called up-words. see link |
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csea, your stack doesn't fit the rules between 'spy' and 'prim.' |
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.. or anywhere below it, for that matter! Csea's reversed the rules; easy to do when codell's demo is intended to be read upside down. If you don't remember, you can just play it safe - |
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I
SI
ISO
SILT
ISSUE
SIZZLE
ISHMAEL
SITUATED
ISLINGTON
.. |
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I got to 10 and I seem to get in a A/B cycle.
I - PI - SPY - ISLE - SINCE - INSIST - BICYCLE - ABERRANT -
BASICALLY -
ABSOLUTIST ..
PS How do you get this editor to put in carriage returns? |
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O
No!
Any
daft
ideas
simply
astound
bakerdom.
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Wow. A bit hard, but fun. Playing this on the bus was one of the most difficult things I have had to do for a while (that and not whacking my head off the ceiling.) |
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One can cheat with the use of an online dictionary and boolean search terms - this has let me add the words apheliotropically and bacterioscopically atop codell's pyramid. No luck with csea's pyramid - not that many 16 letter words beginning with Y, it would seem. |
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I agree that the use of different starting vowels would broaden the game. However, regular players could memorize excellent sequences starting with each of the original vowels. One could actually program a bot to use the OED and determine maximally tall pyramids. |
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To avoid this, I propose that an arbitary starting word of 3 or 4 letters be chosen. This would make memorization of good pyramids more difficult, as your favorite pyramid would be unlikely to incorporate the starting word. A regular player might try to guide the resulting pyramid by early choices such that one could use the favored tall pyramid top for many different bottoms - for example, landing on ASTONISH at 8 letters and then using the rest of the codell pyramid. The countermeasure: an arbitrary starting word of 8 letters which which one must build up and down. |
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14, I tied with [csea]. Although, [csea] did it wrong after the first three, so I guess that doesn't really matter. |
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M!
MM!
MMM!
MMMM!
MMMMM!
MMMMMM!
MMMMMMM!
MMMMMMMM!
MMMMMMMMM!
MMMMMMMMMM!
MMMMMMMMMMM!
MMMMMMMMMMMM!
AMITRYPTILINE! |
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\\14, I tied with [csea]\\
Whoa, that has 15 characters, excluding puncuation. |
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You could also make this a two-player game, each player taking it in turns to add a new word. You could combine it with the rule in Ghost that the player must know at least one word that could be formed next. (If the other player challenges you, and you do have a word that fits next, you win.) That would allow you to start with any letter, since an impossible start could be challenged. |
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Player 1: V
Player 2: challenge
Player 1: ummm...
(Player 2 wins - there are no two-letter words ending in V) |
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or
Player 1: X
Player 2: AX
Player 1: JAR
Player 2: AJAR
Player 1: JAMMY
Player 2: challenge
Player 1: EJECTS
(Player 1 wins) |
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(Edit) And as a twist to the solo version, what's the longest word sequence someone can create with all the words starting with different letters? |
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A
LA
PLY
IPOD
WINGS
SWINGS
ESSENCE
NESTLING
UNDERLING
TUMESCENCE
ITINERARIES
Oops, damn, used I twice. |
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Or (in view of needing to begin with vowels pretty often), see how far you can get without repeating a starting consonant? |
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\\...an arbitary starting word of 3 or 4 letters be chosen...as your favorite pyramid would be unlikely to incorporate the starting word\\ |
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One could memorize pyramids starting at four or five. |
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o.k. we like words but we don't do games |
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//Csea's reversed the rules;// |
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Yes, I am somewhat of an iconoclast. |
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'One could start memorizing pyriamids at age 4 or 5.'
'The Great,' 'Menkaure,' 'Sri Rangam,' 'Luxor Hotel,'... |
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Carriage returns can be inserted using < br > without the spaces. |
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One could also add challenge or clues to the game such as restricting the topic or providing crossword type clues. |
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I
pi
opt
toes
atlas
backer
abstain
fabulous
affirment
packyderms
apologizing
pacification
opportunities
motivationally
omniferiousness
constitutionally
occidentalization |
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Well, got to 17. You really gotta start
making up your own words toward the
end. That's ok isn't it? |
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I did one that got to 18 then realized I
was doing it backwards like: |
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endocrinologists
nanotechnological
aerothermodynamics
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Duh. No fruit-cup for me. |
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Anyway, great idea c! Fun! |
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microspectrophotometry
immunoelectrophoresis
microelectrophoretic
interdenominational
nonacknowledgments
overemotionalises
vectorcardiogram
ecclesiasticise
catecholamines
assimilations
scintillated
chromicises
histologic
irritated
ruthless
unstack
nickel
itchy
take
aha
hi
I |
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Was there rumour of a prize...? |
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[admin: to make a hard newline break, such as you'd need to typeset poetry or these game examples, type <br> at the end of a line, as you'd do in HTML.] |
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I
pi
opt
toes
atlas
backer
abstain
fabulous
affirment
packyderms
apologizing
pacification
opportunities
motivationally
omniferiousness
constitutionally
acquaintanceships
naleadministration
incomprehensibility
disestablismentarian
adrenocorticosteroids
pangalacticgargleblast
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Noun: What you receive from a
pangalacticgargleblaster. |
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packyderm, n: a fully loaded elephant. |
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Oops. "pachyderms", right. Damn this
language! I'll never get the hang of it. |
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Ok,
(continued from above)
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disestablismentarian
adrenocorticosteroids
carboxymethylcellulose
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Tied! Woohoo! I'll split the prize with ya
Vince. |
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I still don't know how you guys actually type < br> without any spaces and make it actually show up. |
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LEVEL TWO: After the stacking of words,
players have to come up with a short tale
with those words! |
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Although my comments are a bit late, thank you for the praise. After playing my game some more by myself and with friends, I found some improvements which could be added to the game:
-Not start with "A" or "I". Either start with any letter, or start immediately with a 2 letter word.
-When playing with two people, the player must know at least one word that could be formed next. (If the other player challenges you, and you do have a word that fits next, you win.) |
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But these improvements have already been suggested by comments, so good! I have added a link to a graphic of what a game of Up-Word would look like. [BTW the title was made to be a play-on-words of "upward".] |
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How about starting with a long word, and getting shorter. The object is to successfully end up with a particular 2- letter word. (You might have to plan ahead a bit) |
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Due to the sequential flow of the game, you can form some plausible, albeit random and often absurd, words. [doctorremulac3]'s example becomes: |
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Which is a type of café avec glaces, I believe. |
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I
HI
THY
STIR
ASTRO
TASTED
STATION
ESTATE
MESSY
SMUG
ISM
PI
I
AI
MAP |
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