Contact

**Defender**:
To start a game, type `!!start <letter>`.
To reveal a letter, type `!!add <letter>`.
To end the game, type `!!reset`.
**Attackers**:
All clues should be in bold. The bot will automatically assign a number to the clue.
**Everyone**:
To unstar a clue, type `!!unstar <number>`.
To disable the bot, type `!!shutdown`.
To see this message again, type `!!help`.

boboquack

8:29 AM

For whoever wants to play, the bot is currently available. Type !!help to see a list of instructions. (@Vol, unstar this when you turn the bot off)

Sp3000

!!help

Volatility

**Defender**:
To start a game, type `!!start <letter>`.
To reveal a letter, type `!!add <letter>`.
To end the game, type `!!reset`.
**Attackers**:
All clues should be in bold. The bot will automatically assign a number to the clue.
**Everyone**:
To unstar a clue, type `!!unstar <number>`.
To disable the bot, type `!!shutdown`.
To see this message again, type `!!help`.

Sp3000

Neat :P

Alconja

8:48 AM

@boboquack exclamation (!)

Techidiot

10:04 AM

@boboquack was it escape? the \n thing

boboquack

@Techidiot Enter (the enter key is essentially a newline)

Techidiot

10:53 AM

@boboquack I was going to guess it as escape/enter since I thought you may tweak it a little to change a simpler enter -> escape

PSE Contact

11:23 AM

Do you guys want the bot to post a "bot available" message and pin it when it comes online, and a "bot unavailable" message when it comes offline, or do you want it just to toggle pins on two pre-entered messages?

PSE Contact

12:03 PM

!!shutdown

Volatility

Shutting down...

boboquack

9:05 PM

@PSEContact Something of that sort would be good

boboquack

10:35 PM

Hello!

So one person is called the attacker

The other people are called the defenders

Jonathan Allan

right

boboquack

The attacker has a secret word, that the defenders have to guess

Jonathan Allan

hangman esque

boboquack

The attacker starts off by giving the first letter

The defenders then make clues for words starting with that letter

To defend against a clue, the attacker has to guess the word that is being clued

You can have multiple clues going at the same time

If a different defender thinks they know the answer to a clue, they can say 'Contact'

Jonathan Allan

the attacker must defend against a clue?

boboquack

10:38 PM

Then, if the attacker gives up on that clue, they can guess

Jonathan Allan

can you do quick example?

boboquack

Yes, hold on, I'll just finish explaining

Jonathan Allan

e.g you attack and think of ...?

Deusovi

We can try it right now

boboquack

If the contacting defender gets it right, the attacker has to reveal another letter

@Deusovi Do you want to start?

Jonathan Allan

10:39 PM

hihi Deu

Deusovi

We'll need someone else since Jonathan hasn't played before

boboquack

If the contacting defender gets it wrong, nothing happens and the clue is scrapped

Deusovi

(also hey!)

boboquack

Hi @Matt!

Deusovi

Oh look, it's someone else!

boboquack

10:40 PM

Have you played before?

Matt

not with text

I was just looking for humn

I need help with that darned subcontrabassoon thing

it's like I get halfway closer every time I guess

Deusovi

just guess an infinite number of times!

boboquack

Hi @humn!

Matt

infinite guesses require my notoriously absent patience

humn

(watching and, possibly, learning)

boboquack

10:42 PM

Boboquack defending R

Jonathan Allan

just reading the quora. I think I will suck at this :)

Deusovi

Matt, here are the changes we've made:

You can have multiple clues going at once. When the defender gives up on a clue, the attacker who made contact just says their guess, and the original cluer confirms or denies. (Honor system here - don't retroactively change your clue.)

Matt

so there's no attackers joining together

with the countdown etc

Deusovi

Right

Wait, attackers joining together?

Matt

so in the live game

boboquack

10:45 PM

Attackers act as separate entities

Matt

as soon as a person attacks, if another player knows the intended answer, the other player says "Contact!" then they countdown together from 5. instead of 0, the attacker and other player say the answer.

boboquack

They can give clues or contact a different attacker's clue

Matt

if the answer is the same, then the defender cedes a letter

Deusovi

They have to wait for the defender to give up first though

boboquack

@Matt We don't do a countdown though

Because of the chat spam limit

We operate on a trust system

Deusovi

10:46 PM

yeah, countdowns don't work well with SE's rate limiting and lag issues

Matt

the defender has until the attackers spill the answer to think of something that's not the defended word

right, which is why this is fine

Deusovi

ah - we've played that the defender has as many guesses as they want, and attackers only get to make contact if the defender gives up

Matt

interesting

humn

What would be an example clue to try for boboquack's R word?

Deusovi

Clues can be literally anything. Sometimes they're crossword style, and sometimes they're vague phrases meant to make you think of another word

boboquack

10:47 PM

alpha-shedding

for radioactive, for instance

Matt

I've played that, if I was defending "DEAD" and "DE" was out, and a player says, "is it lifeless?" I could say "no it is not deceased."

boboquack

Yes

Matt

so I don't have to match verbatim what the asker intended, so long as I satisfy the definition

Deusovi

Yeah - not sure why, but we haven't been playing that way here

I guess there are different variants?

Matt

okay, someone else attack first so I can see it

Deusovi

10:49 PM

Russian

boboquack

Red firetrucks :D

Red

Nope

Rouge

Also no

so it's just happenstance that your attacking word also starts with R?

Jonathan Allan

10:50 PM

So Deu said Russian, why?

boboquack

@Matt Clues can be anything, literally

Deusovi

Happenstance? I mean, isn't that the point of the clues?

Jonathan Allan

because bobquack said R?

Deusovi

Ah

Yeah, it is

"Russian" is my clue to a word starting with R

boboquack

Russian?

Deusovi

10:51 PM

(my clue didn't have to start with R - could've been anything)

Jonathan Allan

and bobo is defending?

Matt

understood, just confirming

boboquack

Yes, I'm defending.

Deusovi

Right, so he has to guess the word I'm thinking of to keep my attack from going through

humn

dexter?

boboquack

10:52 PM

You can check the starboard, we pin defenders' statements and attackers' clues up there.

@humn Right-handed

Right

Deusovi

If he can't guess it, and another attacker says "contact" to signify that they did guess it, then the other attacker can say what they think the answer is

Jonathan Allan

sounds hard for bobo

Deusovi

If the second attacker (the contacter) guessed wrong, then the attack "misses" and nothing happens

Well, bobo gets multiple guesses on each clue - attackers only get one

but yeah, the goal of the game is for the defender to see how long they can last

boboquack

@humn, was Right right?

humn

right, or "contact"?

Deusovi

10:54 PM

(humn, you confirm or deny - if not, Boboquack keeps guessing)

"contact" means that you've solved another attacker's clue

humn

confirm

Deusovi

Cool, so Boboquack successfully "defended" against your clue

that means it gets removed

you can give as many clues as you want, by the way

humn

no turnsies? what fun

boboquack

@JonathanAllan, why don't you make up a clue?

Deusovi

Nope! And multiple clues can be going at the same time

boboquack

10:55 PM

@Deusovi Renegade?

Jonathan Allan

I dunno what the strategy is

Deusovi

It's boboquack's job to defend against the onslaught of clues

boboquack

'turnsies'?

humn

^ taking turns in order

boboquack

The more clues, the merrier! :D

Deusovi

10:55 PM

@JonathanAllan Try to make a clue vague enough so that Bobo doesn't get it, but gettable enough so at least one other attacker does

@boboquack Nope

boboquack

@Deusovi :P

Jonathan Allan

and the answer must begin with R (until contact has occurred)?

Deusovi

Like I said, clues can be crossword-style or more freeform word-association things

boboquack

(Or specialised in knowledge enough)

@JonathanAllan Yes

Deusovi

@JonathanAllan Right. Once a contact successfully goes through (Bobo gives up, contacter guesses and gets it right) he adds another letter, and now all clue answers must start with those two letters

Keep going until either we run him out of letters or one of the clues hits the word that he thought of at the start perfectly

humn

10:57 PM

in the meanwhile, Deusovi, aren't you like a defender too? of the word you've clued with Russian?

Hm?

@humn Sort of

In a sense, yeah

but others only try to guess boboquack's word?