Monday, June 11, 2007

It all started with...

Here's the original game that got this going:

Started By: (email addr.)
Subject: E-Scrabble
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:29:27 +0000

E-Scrabble

Change one letter of the last word posted (by me, AT THE BOTTOM) and see
who gets stuck and can't continue!

Rules:
1. You cannot add letters.
2. No foreign words.
3. Change only one letter
4. Send it back to the person that sent it to you, plus 10 new
people.
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STARTING WORD -lime
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Tracy - time
Michelle - tame
Wendy - same
Terry - some
Virginia - tome (book, volume, digest or work)
Ed - tomb (As I rise from the)
Kathy - comb
Larry - bomb (as in BOOM)
Chuck - boob (as in the person who sent this to me)
Tracy - boot
Laneta - toot (as in toot your horn or toot gas) LOL
Judy - trot
Anita - trod
Gary - prod
Dan - prop
Karen - crop
Bette - chop
Catriona - shop
Leslie - hope
Jim - pope
June - mope
John - dope
Evelyn - dote
Donna - vote
Janet - note
Jen - tote
Marsha - tots
Lisa - toys
Sher - toes
Cyndi - woes
Diane - foes
Tracy - does
Charen - dots
Jack - lots
Brian - logs
Cheryl - bogs
Hank - dogs
Karen - digs
Justin - figs
Carol - rigs
Shirley-digs
Marsha - pigs
Liz - gigs
Ray - gags
Lynn- gads
Kathy - pads
MB - lads
Babe - lady
Cathy-lazy
Cynthia - hazy
Melinda - haze
Diane - gaze
Wally - maze (as in I'm amazed that I'm so bored I'm playing this game! :-)
Alexa- faze (as in I am not fazed spending just a moment creating
levity in the hive)
Willard - fade
Loraine- fake
DeeDee-make
Patty - cake ( as in yum, I think I'll go make one)
Bill - Wake (As in I think it's time for my nap)
Nancy - bake
Mary - babe
Carol- baby
Erin - baba (Thanks a lot Carol...this was the toughest assignment I
have had in a long time. A "baba" is a rich cake soaked in rum and
sugar syrup. Whatever...)
Arlene - babu (yes, this word is found in the dictionary, so I will
not accept that it is a foreign word! It means a Hindu gentleman -- a
form of address corresponding to Mr. Erin, see? I told you gave me a
hard word to convert!)
CC - bulb (ty Arl, made it easy for me...lol
Pat - bull
Christine- cull :to pick or sort out ( select)
Mary Ann -- mull
Barb - mule
Carla - mole (as in yuk)
Sandy - mile
Dede- milk
Julie- silk
Michele- silt
JoAnne-kilt (Scottish skirt men wear, with nothing underneath)!
Maureen- wilt
Cris - wist ( dictionary.com - "To be or become aware of; learn")
Sharyn- fist
Jamie - mist
Joan most
Jayson post
Susan lost
Brandy-lose
Amanda - Loss
Elisa - Toss
Bonnie - moss
Christian - most
Jim - mast
Bruce - cast
Felix- fast
Marty - last
Joe - list
James- lisp
Geoff wisp
Anita wasp
Michele - gasp
Marcie - gash
Patrice - hash (a mixture of leftovers served as one dish)
Krista - mash
Lorri - mach
Terry much
Casenia - muck
Judy luck (I didn't dare go there!)
Ann duck
Lee - deck
Melanie - peck
Carmon - peak
Kim - Leak Gerri - Leaf
Don - Deaf
Bill - Deal (Let's make a)
Deborah - Dial
Alice-Dill
Maureen - fill
Teri - Pill
Kris - pile
Max - Bile (like whats being secreated by my liver right now....)
Marian - bill
Pam - bilk
Suzy - milk
Carol - silk
Suzanne - sill
Barbara - hill
Michelle - hilt
Jenn-Halt
sooz - salt
Mary - sale
John - pale
Patricia - tale
Kathy- talk
Carol - balk
Pat -bark
Cathy - bare (just think, we'll be great at Scrabble!)
Bob - bard;
Karen - hard
Flo - card
Ann - yard
Liz - Lard
Carol - Lark
Judy - dark
Judi - Park
Joan-perk
Richard- perp
Connie -pear
Denise - peal
TONY - TEAL
LIA - HEAL
Heather - real
Sandy - leap
John - heap
Cheryl-heat
Mark- seat
Cheryl( a different Cheryl)- seal
Becky- deal
Tim- meal
Gretchen- meat
Suzanne-heat
Mar - hear
Rita - sear
Laura - tear
Shirley - gear
Linda - bear
Fred - earn
Denny - warn
Johnboy - warp
Karen- harp
Carole-park
Kathy - dark
Lois - rake
Judy - teak
Dory - teal
Pauline - team
Helen - seam
Martha - seem Isn't it sad that we don't see how it ends
Terry - seep
Susan - step
Gail - stop
Pauline - SHOP
Sarah - SHOE
Carol - SHOW
David - shot
Emma - Shut
Rowena - Shun
Margot - Shin
Annette - Ship
Michelle - Chip I thought about it, but I just could'nt lower the tone
by taking the p (LOL. taking the p) and adding a T
Rich - Clip
Jill - Slip
Caroline - Flip
Marie - Blip
Kirstin - Pile
Spike - Lite
Susie - Like
Terrie - Lime
Avon - Limb
Ray- Limo
Nalani - Limp
Lorna - Lump
veems - Lamp
Jody - Vamp (a seductive woman who exploits men)
Renee - damp
Carolyn - tamp
Mary - camp
eileen - ramp
Roxy - romp
Dawn-rump
Jean - pump
Judi - pulp
Jayne - pull
Pam - dull
Vic - fullc
Bert - fuel
Jon- duel
Shar - duet
Junko - diet
Carol - dirt
Alfred - dire
Terri - dime
Sharon-dice
Alice - rice
Virginia - mice
Art - mike
Grahame - make
Tina- mace
Sher-Face
Shelagh-fact
Sue - fast
Judi & Alli - gast (as in to terrify!) :)
Joan mast (as in boat)
Irene-past
Patricia - cast
Shirley - cash
Fred-Dash
Bill - hash
Kelly - hast
Paula - host
Jill - hose (we are going to have to come up with some good words as
we are sending it to the same people)
Gail - nose
Wila - pose
Heather-post
Sharon - most
Dorothy-moat
Virginia - goat
Dixie-coat
[Barb] - cost
Debby - colt
Carol - cold
Dave-cola
Curtis - coda

Don't forget: Send it back to the person that sent it to you, plus 10
new people and delete all forwarding addresses at the top of this
email before sending.

E-Scrabble - The Game, The Rules, The Philosophy

I just got an email from Curtis that was an E-Scrabble game. What an interesting idea! It begins:
Started By: {email addr.}
Subject: E-Scrabble
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:29:27 +0000

E-Scrabble

Change one letter of the last word posted (by me, AT THE BOTTOM) and see who gets stuck and can't continue!

Rules:
1. You cannot add letters.
2. No foreign words.
3. Change only one letter
4. Send it back to the person that sent it to you, plus 10 new people.
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STARTING WORD -lime
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Tracy - time
Michelle - tame
...
and ends with:
...
Carol - cold
Dave-cola
Curtis - coda

Don't forget: Send it back to the person that sent it to you, plus 10 new people and delete all forwarding addresses at the top of this email before sending.
I added COMA and immediately became curious about where this has been and what the final result might be. I suggested to Curtis that he should start a blog and a new game and to amplify the rules. The more I thought about it, the more fun it sounded! So here we go....

The Rules:

Change one letter of the last word posted at the bottom of the list and see who gets stuck and can't continue!

  1. Change only one letter
  2. You cannot add or delete letters
  3. Word must appear in the SOWPODS word list
  4. No repeats of words
  5. Send it back to the person that sent it to you plus whomever else you care to send it to, preferably as a new email msg and not a Reply or Forward
  6. Last person who cannot make a new word, please send to this blog and I will post it
  7. This is a game! Keep it fun!!

The Philosophy

There's quite a bit of philosophy behind this chain game. First, Scrabble is only appreciated by people who enjoy words and word games. This pretty much eliminates morons and most Hollyweirdo celebrities. You just don't see George Clooney or Paris Hilton doing crossword puzzles.

People who enjoy this kind of thing tend to be somewhat intelligent if not a bloomin' genius. Plus the fact that you are online, at least email competent and you are reading this means you are at least marginally curious; a sure sign of intelligence. I realize that even a Kindergartener has an email addr. nowadays, but I don't perceive anyone playing this game would send it to a 5-year-old who couldn't appreciate it.

With people adding their location to their addition, it will be interesting to see where these emails go. I am in Southern California, but email puts us all in the same room. Hope you all took a shower today. Curtis is in Colorado. I am going to send to my friend Mark in New Zealand. Andrew in Shanghai is going to get a copy too.

Come back soon and see what happens!