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This game is run as a challenge between multiple people, in an environment where conversation occurs through typing text (like here).
All interactions are monitored. Repetition of the same word eliminates that competitor. Last man standing wins. Points get awarded based on discussion length. After
reset, interactions continue, involving every entrant. Bouts may be surprisingly short! Nevertheless, scores accumulate, allowing ongoing entertainment.
Challengers indicate reuse by buzzer or hooter.
BBC Just A Minute
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006s5dp
Read thr rules then listen to an episode [xenzag, Aug 24 2022]
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Yikes, much too difficult. Ctrl-f abuse permitted? |
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[Case in point: arguably a1 disqualified for re-use of "for"] |
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Additionally, women can compete strongly. |
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Best idea ever! Punctuation reusable, obviously. |
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This should be a board game with an AI text-to-speech intermediary to act as the judge. The real problem is that any discussion will devolve into nonsense even faster. |
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[Calum] wins 1 point for a successful challenge, and [a1] is now on -1. The entire game resets after such play, hence permitting me to say "for". |
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Yes, use of control-F encouraged. |
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Brilliant! Might one fall short regarding prepositions? Methinks true. |
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Things would go downhill fast when the auxiliary verbs ran out. |
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Smart players perhaps invoke foreign languages? |
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You guys never specified whether participants need constrtrain themselves about protocol.
Are metaphors allowed?
Is slang forbidden? |
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This is somewhat similar to Just A Minute, which has been running for at least 30 years and is totally brilliant. Thank you most excellent and most supreme BBC. |
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<bzzt> Repetition of "is". |
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I think foreign languages are not permitted, except loanwords. Maybe use the standard Scrabble dictionaries. |
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Metaphors and slang encouraged. |
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[xen] yes I thought about JAM. This one's technically narrower; hesitation or digression fine. |
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Repetition should be picked up strictly as the result of an opponent's challenge, and then, a subsequent check against the written record (or audio search?). If you can remember every word that's been said and challenge successfully, you're a genius, or a practiced kibitzer with a limited vocabulary. |
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Chinese speakers would be able to keep this going much longer, I suspect. So would speakers of heavily- inflected languages, like Latin. |
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Unbelievable! Utterly execrable high jinks without discernible purpose. Exemplary fun. |
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+ yeah, was gonna axe about slang, but already answered. |
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User, unchallenged, merrily sallies forth. Bonus! |
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Browser plugin could auto-detect pre-used vocab; also integrated thesaurus app provides alternatives. |
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Drat! Player3 [poc] enters chat, pulls ahead. Quelle surprise! |
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Shirley you can't be serious? |
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<squints at [21], checking if this comment is sarcasmic, ironical or similar> |
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<notes that all of [Sgt]'s annos except for this one have been Playing The Game as outlined in this superiorilly entertaining idea> |
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<notes for clarity that [Sgt] DOES participate in the Ooloongftangftang banking scheme, and DOES NOT participate in flame wars or similar> |
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