# After 6 years, I finally get to play the Word Game. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 21, 2003, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-6-years-i-finally-get-to-play-the-word-game/149963 "2003-01-21T12:20:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-6-years-i-finally-get-to-play-the-word-game/149963/1 "2003-01-21T12:20:48Z")
Anyone ever play this? It was taught to me by my grandfather, and my aunt and I played it almost daily for about 10 years. Then I moved and have had a serious Word Game draught since then. I tried to teach it to some friends, but none of them were very interested. The game goes like this: Two players, each one selects a 5 letter word with no repeating letters, and doesn’t tell the other player what it is. “Stick” is okay, “Areas” is not, since it has two “A’s”. The players take turns shooting 5 letter words back and forth. When the first player shoots a word, the second player tell them how many letters in thier “shoot” word match the letters in thier secret word. You change your words to eliminate letters and determine what the other player’s word is before they do the same to you. Is this just confusing? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-6-years-i-finally-get-to-play-the-word-game/149963/2 "2003-01-21T12:50:05Z")
Piles? ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-6-years-i-finally-get-to-play-the-word-game/149963/3 "2003-01-21T13:23:55Z")
Piles has one. My first shot is stick. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-6-years-i-finally-get-to-play-the-word-game/149963/4 "2003-01-21T13:51:33Z")
Stick has two. About? ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-6-years-i-finally-get-to-play-the-word-game/149963/5 "2003-01-21T14:22:16Z")
Two. Stack? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-6-years-i-finally-get-to-play-the-word-game/149963/6 "2003-01-21T14:24:44Z")
Two. Piled? A suggestion: This should be just one person “call and response” style against the rest of the Board, or else it just becomes a one-on-one game (like above). Or you can try and do a many to many game, which could be confusing as all get out. ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-6-years-i-finally-get-to-play-the-word-game/149963/7 "2003-01-21T14:29:03Z")
One on one is the only way it really works. So it’ll be me vs. you Shibb. Piled - 1 stock - ? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-6-years-i-finally-get-to-play-the-word-game/149963/8 "2003-01-21T14:46:06Z")
three. Split? ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-6-years-i-finally-get-to-play-the-word-game/149963/9 "2003-01-21T14:51:00Z")
split - 0 slick - ? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-6-years-i-finally-get-to-play-the-word-game/149963/10 "2003-01-21T14:55:49Z")
Two. Abort? ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-6-years-i-finally-get-to-play-the-word-game/149963/11 "2003-01-21T14:58:40Z")
abort - 2 staid - ? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-6-years-i-finally-get-to-play-the-word-game/149963/12 "2003-01-21T15:02:52Z")
Two. Alone? ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-6-years-i-finally-get-to-play-the-word-game/149963/13 "2003-01-21T15:07:08Z")
Alone - 3 proxy - ? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-6-years-i-finally-get-to-play-the-word-game/149963/14 "2003-01-21T15:18:25Z")
Two. Clone? ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-6-years-i-finally-get-to-play-the-word-game/149963/15 "2003-01-21T15:19:57Z")
clone - 3 audio - ? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-6-years-i-finally-get-to-play-the-word-game/149963/16 "2003-01-21T15:26:54Z")
Two. Stone? ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-6-years-i-finally-get-to-play-the-word-game/149963/17 "2003-01-21T15:33:16Z")
stone - 2 stuck - ? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-6-years-i-finally-get-to-play-the-word-game/149963/18 "2003-01-21T15:42:20Z")
Yes, you are. 🙂 Two. Splat? ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-6-years-i-finally-get-to-play-the-word-game/149963/19 "2003-01-21T16:00:25Z")
splat - 1 audit - ? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-6-years-i-finally-get-to-play-the-word-game/149963/20 "2003-01-21T16:09:20Z")
One. Cream? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-6-years-i-finally-get-to-play-the-word-game/149963.md?page=2)