Next poster adds a letter that may go with it to makes a word.
Next poster adds a letter.
Play continues with each person adding a letter , having a genuine word in mind, but avoiding FINISHING a word.
Three letter words don’t count. Please don’t use a dictionary, it defeats the purpose.
Example: A person takes a stab at S-A-T and adds an I to try and trap the next person into S-A-T-I-N. That’s a stupid example because of the general level of intelligence here, but you get the idea. You’re trying to contribute the last letter before the end of a word. Once the letters make a word, game’s over, get it?
Person who ends the word gets to start the next game.
I don’t think this is going to fly (as people will not post, just to avoid losing) but WTF, I’m bored.
Okay, I’m totally baffled. I love word games but this one has me stumped. In Sue Dunhym’s example, why does the game end at SATIN, but not SAT or SATI, both of which are words as well?
Secondly, what the hell is a fnord? It does not appear in any dictionary I have, which includes Webster’s Unabridged and Chambers, which has all kinds of weird words in it (like euouae and hwyl). So if fnord is a word, it’s pretty damn obscure.
Now, onto the current puzzle. Again, no word beginning with XYLU in any dictionary I have. Deepbluesea, are you sure you’re not thinking of xylem? Unless somebody has a copy of the OED, this game’s probably going to end now, because I have no idea what to follow XYLU with, and I’m a professional Scrabble player, so I know obscure words like nobody’s business.
It’s cultish, part of Discordianism, either popularized by or created by Robert Anton Wilson. Someone more down on Erisian knowledge can correct that, and the following. But the story goes, all schoolchildren are hypnotized to never consciously see the word “fnord” when it appears: if you see the fnords, they’ll eat you!
Thus, whenever “fnord” appears in print, the unenlightened masses do not see it, but feel anxiety from their conditioning. Depending on whether used in an editorial, an advertisement, or whatnot, the anxiety can be eased by believing, purchasing the product, or whatever satisfies the whatnot. But obviously if you do see the fnords, you’re enlightened, in an Eris-tocratic sorta way.
Was that the word you were thinking of, Uncle Beer?
Oh, and Opus, the game doesn’t end at SAT because Sue said three letter words didn’t count - presumably because there are so many three-letter combos that are words that it would make the game really hard.