# The Exciting Game With One Rule **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 9, 2014, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239 "2014-03-09T03:34:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/21 "2014-03-09T04:33:06Z")
Well yes; but that’s not it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/22 "2014-03-09T04:33:54Z")
By posting to the thread you lose? ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/23 "2014-03-09T04:34:49Z")
No, that’s not the rule. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/24 "2014-03-09T04:34:53Z")
My big toe itches. ---
**Author:** ![randompattern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@randompattern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randompattern)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/25 "2014-03-09T04:36:52Z")
I’m out :smack: but I’ll be watching. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/26 "2014-03-09T04:37:41Z")
Your big toe itches to do what? Write the Great American Novel? Break free of your foot, and strike out on its own? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/27 "2014-03-09T04:41:37Z")
> [@brujaja](#): > > Your big toe itches to do what? Write the Great American Novel? Break free of your foot, and strike out on its own? No, just itched. So I scratched it and it quit itching. Modern medicine at its best. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/28 "2014-03-09T04:42:40Z")
You have broken the rule. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/29 "2014-03-09T04:44:25Z")
Can’t use a q? ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/30 "2014-03-09T04:46:47Z")
Yes! That was the rule!! Dang, I shoulda picked a harder one. I was sure that \*\*randompattern \*\*would get it. Now you get to pick a rule. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/31 "2014-03-09T04:51:12Z")
Okay. We may be here a while. My rule is going to be hard to violate. Best go for the 20 Questions concept… He, He, He… ---
**Author:** ![randompattern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@randompattern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randompattern)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/32 "2014-03-09T04:56:29Z")
Nospaces. no capital letters? No Punctuation ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/33 "2014-03-09T04:59:29Z")
> [@randompattern](#): > > Nospaces. > > no capital letters? > > No Punctuation Nothing that simple. All of those are permitted. ---
**Author:** ![randompattern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@randompattern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randompattern)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/34 "2014-03-09T05:04:25Z")
sdrawkcab gnitirw oN ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/35 "2014-03-09T05:06:16Z")
That’s okay. If that works for you, do it. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/36 "2014-03-09T16:37:51Z")
No commas after double letters? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/37 "2014-03-09T16:45:39Z")
> [@brujaja](#): > > No commas after double letters? Nothing that obvious! 😃 Please remember that the “one rule” has shifted from the earlier one to a new one. Big Hint: it’s not about spelling, syntax, orthography and the font used. Think content, subject matter and the like. The old 20 Questions approach is much more likely to help. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/38 "2014-03-09T16:48:23Z")
Oh, okay. I just thought it was odd to go “he, he, he.” 🙂 Does the rule involve discussion of a particular object? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/39 "2014-03-09T16:49:33Z")
> [@brujaja](#): > > Oh, okay. I just thought it was odd to go “he, he, he.” 🙂 > > Does the rule involve discussion of a particular object? Damn good guess! Indeed it does – in a perverted way. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/40 "2014-03-09T16:53:09Z")
Are we talking about a single tangible object, i.e., a material thing like “duck” or “garlic press?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239.md?page=3)