Let's get the room started, then

Let's get this party started?

How do you add a RO?

Context menu under "Room v" I believe

Ooh!

Spaffo.

I have to go, so I'll let you all make the decisions.

???

Oh no, responsibility!

lol

well I'm back, if y'all wanna keep going

How does this game work?

@TheGreatEscaper Someone posted a link in tSL last night ... hang on, let me find it.

Probably pin the link

quora.com/How-do-you-play-the-word-game-Contact

But I think the version we've been playing might be slightly different in the details from the one described on that Quora link.

I'll let someone more knowledgeable confirm and add a pin.

Read some of the below lines as well.. @TheGreatEscaper

Do we have enough to get this game going again?

@Sp3000 is active in the other chat too.

Well, yeah 3 also works... but the more, the merrrier

Don't count me in for now... I have just dropped in for a few minutes

I won't be for too long though, I should really sleep soon

Ah well, looks like nobody is committed enough just now.

goes back to lurking

Anyone here?

This sounds interesting!

Hmm...

Should be middle of the afternoon for @rubio?

hey just got back home

@Rand and @Rubio, we could use room timeouts as an unofficial countdown

walked in to "BUNNGGG"

Is that the sound of a ping?

I don't have my volume up usually

Yah. :)

Countdowns for what exactly

@Techidot, do you want to start

@Rubio Same-time reveals

Hi @Rand!

Didn't really seem like we needed that though - just letting the defender guess until they give up seemed to be a reasonable alternative to the countdown business.

OK

@boboquack Sounds a bit lik3 using a sl3dg3hamm3r to crack a nut.

Anyone want to play? I've got 15 minutes...

Sure

I've got a word if you want me to start

Ok

P

I can play for a bit, but not sure how long I'll be able to stay.

Authority

I would be a bad start

:p

power

-1

Permission

My messages aren't getting through

-1

There we go

I think if you repeat the same message twice in a row too quickly it eats the second

Ah

I had that happen last night

Interesting

Other guesses?

Pow?

-1

Punch?

(You're supposed to say Contact, @Tech)

Wait, Rubio is supposed to give up first!

that's ... not how this game works, yeah :)

Ah, okay.

Only if Rubio can't solve it do the rest of us get to have a go.

I haven't given up, but if nobody 'contact's then I have no real need to guess or give up

Okay okay.

Sorry, new to rules

Hi @Deus!

Hey!

And more than one challenge at a time is fine, in case one stalls like this one has with no valid defense nor any contacts

@Deus @bobo @Rubio Do any of you experienced Contacters have a useful rules link that we can pin in here?

quora.com/How-do-you-play-the-word-game-Contact

I was writing up a rules message right now.

(can't remember which of you were experienced, but whatever)

I'll pin that for now

@Rubio Is that identical to the rules system we've been using? I thought there were some subtle differences.

It's not, no - there are house rules we've been using to make it more suitable for chatroom play

CONTACT RULES: The defender thinks of a word and gives the first letter. Attackers give 'clues' to words starting with that letter. If the defender gets the clue, they say "no, it's not ___". If another attacker gets the clue, they say "contact". If the defender doesn't get the clue and gives up, the "contacting" attacker says the answer. A correct contact means the defender must give the next letter.

Any more challenges, guesses or any contacts?

I mean other than the chatroom-related changes like abolishing the "3,2,1".

i'll try - preeminence

-1

They chomp in water

Alias

pirhanna

Contact @Rand

pen name

pseudonym

i butchered that spelling, didn't I.

@Rubio Spelled wrong, but yes :-)

pseudonym was right

Pirrhana ? what is it

piranha

I give up lol

Piranha.

On mine?

Ah right, thanks

Think Spanish.

It's spelled "Piraña" in Spanish

#2: Near Spain

Triangulatable

Oh. yeah that would make it easy to remember wouldn't it

Portugal

contact, bobo

Too easy.

+1

#1 revised: The authorities

contact

Principals or Principles

-1

or Police

+1

@Rubio Yep, that was my thought.

No contact on mine?

Food knot

pretzel

+1

@Deusovi Contact... maybe?

@Deusovi Thinking, but can't come up with anything yet.

@Deusovi wild guess - Plottable

Nope

A bear, for some?

Contact maybe

Papa

-1

aww. That would have been good though :)

Patronus (lol)

Any more guesses on mine, Rubio?

Nope @deus

Boboquack?

Partitionable?

Nope.

:(

It was polygon.

@StackExchange Oh hey, I wondered why this tab just force-refreshed.

Oh, heh

Heights, maybe?

Thanks, @bobo, but it doesn't give me any new powers here :-)

Sure, but it's symbolic, Rand

Yeah

Phobia

yep

Any more on mine?

still thinking

Heig, ma?

@Deusovi Bah. Polygons aren't the only triangulatable things, in an advanced geometry/topology sense (taking the triangles sufficiently small).

on a limb - Pet

-1

#2: Lisp

@Randal'Thor In my defense, I am still an undergrad.

So you'll have to forgive me for not knowing much topology

#2 Programming language. hehe

Really? No contact on mine? I thought it was clever. :c

@Deusovi Fair enough :-) No differential geometry yet?

It's all greek well, foreign to me. ;)

@Deusovi Maybe it's too clever for us ...

Nah, not yet.

So, there can be simultaneously running 2 contacts?

(Think "thris".)

@Techidiot There can be as many as you want as long as you don't overdo it

We've had four clues at once. And as many contacts as people can establish.

@Deusovi That didn't help me. Oh well.

Well, it wasn't supposed to help you.

-1

I have to go, so panda and parentheses

I've lost track. How many clues are still unsolved?

That one never was but bobo moved on

There's "Lisp" and "Heig, ma?" currently active

@boboquack Panda - good one. I don't get parentheses.

Lisp is a programming language known for excessive parentheses

There was even an xkcd on it!

I was actually about to say parentheses when he spilled the beans

I love that xkcd.

Anyway Rand, no contact on mine? D:

The female one has U or O, according to where you are.

@Deusovi I'm sure it'll be something obvious ... :-/

Like I said, think "thris".

Contact maybe, but has @Rubio given up yet? (And I still don't understand the significance of "thris".)

I'll officially give up on it - go for it

So what's your guess?

Phi?

No. Pho

pretends that was a typo :-P

(Last night, I used "this" for "contact", and immediately after used "thris" for "contract")

I thought of pho, but assumed it isn't a word.

I don't get it, but I didn't expect to.

What's it mean?

It's a type of soup

I was hoping for you to get that I chopped off the last three letters of each word

(again, like "this = contact" --> "thris = contract" from last night)

-)-(-

@Deusovi I don't remember "thris = contract". Must have been after I went to bed.

I think it was

Yeah, I guess. Still hoped Boboquack would get it :c

I think bobo left already.

Yeah.

I mean I hoped he would get it before leaving

@Deusovi This is a clue, right? Not some weird emoticon?

Yeah. I bolded it.

The game slowed down a lot suddenly.

@Rubio Any guesses on mine?

@Volatility @Techidiot You here?

Yeah

I have no clue on either of yours, and no contacts for either

That tends to stall the game. hehe

yep

I am still trying to make heads and tails out of it :p

It went like this _-^ and then all of a sudden ___

:D

we can pick up my word again if you want

OK, I'll edit mine to give a hint.

The female one has U or O, on different sides of the Atlantic.

What's your word Rand?

@Techidiot ?

I mean, your clue :p

Okay

Contact @Randal'Thor

Go for it, I have no idea

Linguistics?

...It starts with P.

No, it has to begin with P.

oh wait, is it rubio defending? my bad

Yeah

(Since Rubio already gave us the first letter.)

Oh wait. Am I suppose to provide a clue or provide a guess for the answer?

i'm defending, yes.

thought it was bobo

Pheww. I still suck. Give me some time guys

You provide clues and try to "contact" by solving other people's clues.

@Techidiot You can do either, but if you provide a guess, you have to say "contact" and wait until Rubio gives up.

so do we just have P?

Okay.

Yeah

@Volatility Bobo left :-P

♓

(updated version of my previous clue)

You can provide a guess for my word in the form of a challenge clue that means the word you are guessing, and I have to guess what word your clue means. If I can't guess it, but someone else "contact"s and successfully does guess YOUR word, I have to reveal another letter of MY word

It doesn't need to mean the word you're guessing - only hint at it somehow.

Oh okay

If your guess is my word then you win, and set the next thing.

Headshot

Possible contact, @Vol

Er. Yeah, your clue resolves to your guess, via whatever.

Photo

-1

huh.

Actually, two possible contacts.

err, maybe not a perfect clue

Doesn't have to be perfect; if it works, it works :)

Punch

Has everyone given up on mine?

-1

Oh, wait, there was a failed contact. That means I should reveal the answer, right?

@Randal'Thor I think yours is busted, I think contacts only apply if made before I give up.

So yes.

Well, he didn't understand the rules

Picture?

Publicity shot? Poster? lol

-3

...♑♒♓ <--

Pictogram or Pictograph?

(@deus)

contact deus, I think

Nope

@Rubio You did give up - Tech had got the rules by then (although still has the wrong initial letter, admittedly).

Anyway, my intended answer was parent.

Ah, clever

oh

oh. Good one

Rubio, thoughts on mine?

I was running through all the "p" animals I could think of :)

I think I have a guess for Deus but it's more only because I can think of just one that fits

I think I know the general idea of @Deusovi's clue, but can't come up with a relevant P-word.

Well, there only is one that fits.

hmmmmm

Contact, I guess

@Sp3000 Deus or Vol?

I'll pass - go ahead

On Deus

pisces?

Yep!

^^ that

nice.

P I

Sounds like a religion when doubled

well mine was portrait

That's what I thought.

Oh geez. Again I danced all around it. Nice

contact deus

Rubio?

thinking

Please pay attention primarily???

@Sp3000 ...Contact?

Or maybe not. I'm not sure which one you're going for

In a last resort

geez

Rubio overload!

contact rand

@Deusovi ok passing on this

Vol?

pi (2pi = tau ~ tao)

Bingo!

Oh wow.

Sp, was yours pineapple?

ofc, that was the subject of a blunder in one of my questions

Yeah

Nice one, Deus.

P I S

@Deusovi Wait, Rubio didn't give up on Sp's clue yet!

I just busted it anyway

@Randal'Thor Yeah, but I figured it'd be invalidated (and also forgot)

I was gonna say that, but wasn't sure if it was that or Pikotaro

but yeah, don't kill the clues before they're dead :)

Ah, OK.

I didn't think of the artist fitting as well oops

Mine is also now invalidated. @Vol, what was your guess?

Simple curse

pinch

@Volatility +1

Pish ?

Nope

drunk

Pissed

+1

Green kernel

contact rand

pistil

Contact Rand.

@Rubio -1

I have a slight guess for Deus but it doesn't quite seem right

I think rand has it.

I'll pass, let someone confirm :)

pistachio?

Pistachio?

+2

That's it.

Yay!

you're up @Randal'Thor

nice

OK, gimme a minute ...

Let's hope this lasts longer than my last one did :-P

37 seconds?

:D

That was hilarious

OK, got a word.

First letter is A.

which one was that?

@Deusovi What was yours out of curiosity?

piss-easy :P

Hammer stop?

... it was that

contact rubio

I've never heard that expression

@Volatility Last night I said "First letter is C", Deusovi said "This", and the answer was Contact. The game was over in a single round.

Contact for Rubio

@Deusovi Oo, nice.

ha

@Rubio Um, hmm.

Anvil!

doesn't beat my guess on Sp's Rendezvous :P

+1

@Volatility I guess that was after I went to bed.

This + Hammer

yeah, Volatility's was literally 37 seconds I believe.

Blimey, so much transcript for tSL for this morning.

I tried to pick something semi-obscure but still common and that was the result o_O

(for rendezvous)

must've been some subconscious psychic connection

No contact on mine?

@Deusovi If something is itself even after you add a hammer to it, I'll guess aleph-null :-P

Nope

I have a fairly tenuous contact