In the rule Idle Wordsmiths, change

unless the Wordsmith who would become Active has become Idle within the past 96 hours (4 days)

to

unless the Wordsmith who would become Active has become Idle within the past 48 hours (2 days)

In the rule “Scoring”, replace “a Scoring posted to it from every active Wordsmith other than it’s author” with “a Scoring posted to it from every active Playing Wordsmith other than it’s author” and replace “For each Wordsmith other than the Puzzler that did not post a Scoring” with “For each Playing Wordsmith other than the Puzzler that did not post a Scoring”

In the rule “Scoring”, change

for each word in the title of that Backronym that includes all the letters of a Buzzword, text with that title word and the position of that Buzzword in the Buzzwords list

to

for each word in the title of that Backronym that includes all the letters of at least one Buzzword, text with that title word and the position of the first such Buzzword in the Buzzwords list

Add the following text to the end of the rule “Favorites”:

For the purpose of matching Favorites to words, differences in pluralization, tense or grammatical aspect are considered to be irrelevant, as is the difference between the positive, comparative and superlative forms of an adjective.

In “scoring” replace “lowest number of points” with “second lowest number of points”

In “Scoring”, add a new bullet point after the first in the “may make a Scoring on a Backronym as long as all of the following are true” list:-

* No Backronym has been Closed since the most recent Acrogenerate action (if the Acrotype is Secret)

Before “Once a Backronym has been resolved”, add a new paragraph:-

If the Acronym is Secret, then an Open Backronym can only be resolved if every Open Backronym was either posted at least 48 hours ago, or has a Scoring posted to it from every active Wordsmith other than its author.

In the rule “Acronym”, replace “If the result is less than or equal to the Threshold” with:-

If the result is less than or equal to the Threshold (or if the state of the blog is Endgame)

If “Keeping Evasive View, Anonymous Neophite” was not enacted, enact it.

In the rule “The Word Bank”, remove the text “If the Acrotype is not Secret, then”.

In the same rule, just before the text “When a Wordsmith posts a Backronym” insert the text “If the Acrotype is not Secret, “.

In the rule “Acronym”, insert the following as the first step in the Acrogenerate atomic action:

* If the Acrotype is Secret, add all of the words in the title of every Backronym posted since the most recent Acrogenerate to The Word Bank, ignoring words that are already in The Word Bank.

If “Keeping Evasive View, Anonymous Neophite” was not enacted, enact it.

In the rule “The Word Bank”, remove the text “If the Acrotype is not Secret,”

I think I’m slowing the game down quite a bit right now, and I don’t think I’ll be able to speed up my actions much, so I am hereby requesting to be idled.

Add a new subrule to the rule “Scoring”. Call it Authorized Secrets and give it the following text:

Although the author of a Scoring is generally encouraged to share the reasoning behind it, the following information is expressly exempt from such disclosure and should not be shared in a Scoring even if it strongly affects the score:
* The identity of their Rival
* Any Wordsmith’s Favorites
* The true author of a Backronym in a Secret Round

Add the following as a new paragraph in the rule “Favorites”

As a Virtual Round Action, a Wordsmith may remove a word from their Favorites.

In the rule Acronym, change

Set the current Acrotype to a publicly randomly selected Acrotype. Repeat this step if the selected Acrotype is the same as the Acrotype selected in the most recent Acrogenerate before this one.
Perform the Steps listed in the table that are associated with the current Acrotype, in the order in which they are listed for that Acrotype.

to read

Set the current Acrotype to be Secret, and then perform the Steps for that Arcotype, ignoring the result and repeating this step if the selected Acrotype is the same as the Acrotype selected in the most recent Acrogenerate before this one.

In “The Threshold”, remove the definition of the Finalize action, and replace “Final Acronym” with “Endgame Acronym”.

In “Acronym”, replace “If the state of the blog is Endgame, cease performing the rest of this action and instead Perform the Finalize action” with:-

If the state of the blog is Endgame and a single Wordsmith has more points than any other Wordsmith (ignoring any Wordsmiths that are not allowed to achieve Victory for other reasons), skip the rest of this action and instead make a blog post declaring that Wordsmith victorious; upon doing so, that Wordsmith achieves victory

Replace “If the result is greater than or equal to the Threshold” with:-

If the result is greater than or equal to the Threshold (or if the state of the blog is Endgame)

In the rule “Acronym”, replace the text “If the result is greater than or equal to the Threshold” with “If the result is less than or equal to the Threshold”.

In the rule “Scoring”, move the text “, or twice the result if the state of the blog is Endgame” to just after the text “and add the result to the Points of the author of that Backronym”.

Add a subrule to “Acronym” called “Nicknames” with the following text

Each Wordsmith may have a Nickname. Nicknames are publicly tracked strings that are between 3 and 10 letters long and consist only of alphabetical letters. If the only thing a proposal does is change the nickname of the wordsmith who is the author of that proposal, such a proposal does not count against that author’s limit of 2 pending proposals and may be enacted at any time provided it still has a quorum of FOR votes

Replace steps of the the “Names” Acrotype with the following

* For the purposes of the rest of these steps, if a Wordsmith has a Nickname their Name is considered to be their Nickname rather than their actual Name
* Create a set containing the names of all active Wordsmiths.
* In that set, remove the name of any Wordsmith selected in a Acrogenerate action performed with an Acrotype of “Names” this dynasty (unless this would remove all Wordsmiths, in which case skip this step)
* Publicly randomly select a Wordsmith’s name from that set.
* Set the Acronym to that Wordsmith’s name, with any characters other than alphabetical letters removed and with it trimmed to only its first 10 letters if it would otherwise be more than 10 letters long

In the rule “Backronym”, after the text “The author of such a Backronym is privately tracked by the Puzzler, and the Backronym is instead posted under the name of the Puzzler.” add the following text:

If the Acrotype is Secret, the Puzzler may also create and post a Backronym for which they themselves are the author.

In the rule “Scoring”, insert the following as the second step in Resolving a Backronym:

* If the original author of that Backronym was the Puzzler, skip to the step that begins with the text “Post a comment”.

and in the same rule, before the text “For each word in the title of that Backronym that includes all the letters of a Buzzword” add the text “If the original author of that Backronym is not the Puzzler,”

Give the following Wordsmiths 1 point each:

Bucky
Trapdoorspyder
Josh

In “Rules and Votable Matters” in the Appendix, replace

If the Puzzler has voted DEFERENTIAL on a Proposal, they are not considered to be a Wordsmith for the purposes of totaling quorum on that Proposal. Votes of DEFERENTIAL made by other Wordsmiths on the same Proposal are not considered to be valid, but the Wordsmiths who made them still contribute to quorum

with

If the Puzzler has voted DEFERENTIAL on a Proposal, they (and any other Wordsmiths who have voted DEFERENTIAL on it) are not considered to be a Wordsmith for the purposes of totaling quorum on that Proposal.

In the rule “Scoring”, replace “for each word in that Wordsmith’s Favorites that matched a word in the title of that Backronym, add 1 to that Wordsmith’s Points” with

for each word in that Wordsmith’s Favorites that matched a word in the title of that Backronym, add 2 to that Wordsmith’s Points

and in that same rule, insert the following step before the step “Post a comment to that Backronym containing all of the following”:

* For each word in that Backronym author’s Favorites that matched a word in the title of that Backronym, add 1 to that author’s Points and remove that word from that author’s Favorites.

In the rule Scoring, after

Calculate the median value among all of the recorded numbers of that Backronym, rounded down to the nearest integer, and add the result to the Points of the author of that Backronym.

add the sentence:

If no such numbers were recorded, use the value 4 instead.

If the ruleset contains the text

At any time, a Wordsmith’s Generosity is the mean average of the value of their most recent Scorings on the Backronyms posted by other Wordsmiths in response to the preceding two Acrogenerates, not including the most recent Acrogenerate if there are currently open Backronyms posted in response to it.

add the following text after it:

For this calculation, the mean average of an empty collection is considered to be 2.15.

Append the following to the end of the subrule “buzzwords”:

If any of the Buzzwords are contained in the Word Bank, the Puzzler may remove them from the Buzzword list.