Contact

CONTACT RULES

The defender is thinking of a secret word. They reveal the first letter of it (and will later be forced to reveal more).
Their goal is to last as long as they can by "defending" against people guessing the word.

Everyone else in the game is an "attacker".
They give clues to words starting with the revealed parts of the word. For instance, if the defender has given up COM so far, clues may be for COMPUTER or COMA.
(Clues can be *anything*, not just crossword-style clues. For instance, I once used "This" for CONTACT, then followed it up with "Thris" for CONTRACT.)

Mendeleev

14: Turn

Silenus

@numbermaniac Right now Helka Homba is defending a word starting with RO. Everyone else is coming up with clues to words starting with RO. If Helka can't get them, and gives up, but someone else can, then Helka must reveal a letter.

Helka Homba

@Mendeleev rotate

Mendeleev

yes

boboquack

Not Rojo or red-orange-yellow-green-blue-indigo-violet (which doesn't start with RO anyway)

Mendeleev

1:45 AM

15: Love

Helka Homba

@boboquack hmm, ROAD as in mario kart?

0 '

@Mendeleev contact

Silenus

8: A Star Wars Story

boboquack

Helka Homba

@Silenus Rogue One

boboquack

1:46 AM

@Silenus contact

Yes

@Mendeleev Romance

@HelkaHomba yes

Whats up with the numbers preceding the guesses?

Helka Homba

@DestructibleLemon I'm not sure about yours

numbermaniac

1:46 AM

ohh ok, thanks @Silenus

Helka Homba

@0 ' just a way to keep track of them, like "contact on clue 4"

@boboquack room?

boboquack

Helka Homba

pass on 7 then

Silenus

@0 ' It makes it easier if you number your clues. Sometimes they aren't in perfect succession and it's fine to reuse old numbers if there's no open clue associated with them.

0 '

42: Built FDR Expressway

boboquack

1:48 AM

@Silenus 7?

Silenus

ROYGBIV

ffao

if 7 were ROYGBIV, I think Helka guessed it indirectly with Red-Orange-...

(note the first letters of the guess are italicized)

boboquack

I didn't notice that. It was Roygbiv though

Riker

am here

@HelkaHomba how do I play?

Helka Homba

@ffao I agree I should get that :)

numbermaniac

1:50 AM

@Riker rules are starred on the side

Riker

Helka Homba

@boboquack will you give me that one? (I did italicize the letters..)

Riker

this is complicated o_O

boboquack

Okay

Phoenix

This game is weird

I don't get it

numbermaniac

1:51 AM

lol ikr

0 '

41: Movie Reviewer

boboquack

0: Dog trick

Riker

what do I do to say "i have a clue"

Helka Homba

@0 ' Roosevelt?

Phoenix

What do the numbers mean?

Riker

1:51 AM

Wheat Wizard

11431: Gym leader

0 '

@HelkaHomba no

numbermaniac

pick an unused number for a clue and then give your clue in bold

boboquack

Number: Clue

Sconibulus

@Riker "Contact <n>"

Riker

1:51 AM

ah ok

Helka Homba

@Phoenix Just unique clue identifiers

Riker

@Sconibulus no, I meant "i have thought of a clue" not "I have solved a clue"

boboquack

@WheatWizard big numbers don't really help

Sconibulus

oh, oops, sorry

Riker

what's the current start of word?

0 '

1:52 AM

@boboquack Contact 0

numbermaniac

RO @Riker

Riker

cool

ffao

@Riker current start of word is always first pinned message if you're not on mobile

Wheat Wizard

I don't know what numbers have been used so I thought a big number would be unlikely

Riker

oh cool

Helka Homba

1:52 AM

@boboquack roll over

boboquack

Yep

Helka Homba

The starboard has stuff (if kept updated)

Sconibulus

yeah, we try to have active clues starred as well

Silenus

@WheatWizard It's fine to reuse old numbers if there's no open clue associated with them. Usually, open clues will be starred on the right.

Wheat Wizard

ok cool

Riker

1:53 AM

441: Gimbled in the wabe

ffao

15 was guessed, it should probably be unstarred

boboquack

@WheatWizard Arbitrary two digit numbers are easier to type and sufficiently unlikely to have a collision

Silenus

@0 ' contact on movie reviewer

0 '

As should 0

Riker

@ffao canceled stars

Phoenix

1:53 AM

@Riker Is that a Jabberwocky refrence?

Riker

yes

Mendeleev

15: music

Silenus

@boboquack contact on dog trick

Helka Homba

going too fast ._.

Wheat Wizard

@Mendeleev contact on 15

Helka Homba

1:54 AM

any old contacts?

@Mendeleev rock & roll?

boboquack

@Silenus it's been guessed correctly already

Mendeleev

not quite

Riker

2 mins ago, by 0 '

@boboquack Contact 0

do we star unfinished clues?

Wheat Wizard

@riker Helka got that

boboquack

@Riker It's been guessed correctly already

0 '

1:55 AM

I think only helka should be starring clues

ah ok

16: thief

contact 11431

@Mendeleev robber

1:55 AM

yes

Riker

;-; nobody likes my 441 clue?

Helka Homba

@0 ' Ronald Reagan?

Sconibulus

@0 ' that doesn't work well, there's a star limit

0 '

@HelkaHomba no

@Sconibulus thats too bad

Wheat Wizard

what happens when stars become permanent?

Helka Homba

1:56 AM

@WheatWizard pass on 11431

ffao

I can't even understand 441

Sconibulus

sorry I'm not great at clearing matched stars, trying to watch

ffao

11431: guessing roxanne

Mendeleev

17: Multi threaded

Wheat Wizard

It was roark

Sconibulus

1:57 AM

441: I know that poem pretty well, and I don't know what you're going for

Riker

@ffao yea it's hard

first thing I thought of tho

ffao

roxanne is a gym leader though :c

Wheat Wizard

But roxanne is also correct

Sconibulus

it has to be the one you were thinking of

Silenus

@0 ' belated contact on 42: FDR

Mendeleev

1:58 AM

18: c*ck_____

Riker

o_O

Wheat Wizard

79: czech for slave

Silenus

@Mendeleev hesitant contact on 18

Riker

@WheatWizard contact

Phoenix

@WheatWizard I should not have googled that. I should definitly not have googles that.

Riker

1:59 AM

>_>

numbermaniac

what exactly does "contact on <n>" mean

Mendeleev

@Phoenix Why not( before I google it)

Sconibulus

using google in this game is considered a faux pas

Riker

@numbermaniac it means "I think I know what N" is

Phoenix

@Mendeleev NSFW

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