Add a new rule; Final Tabloids with the following text:

At any time when the blog is in Endgame; if a Wordsmith have not yet done so they may as a Virtual Round Action declare a list of up to 10 words as the Final Tabloid to the Puzzler. For every word that is on the Buzzword list which is contained in the declared Final Tabloid list that Wordsmith gains 2 points.

Repeal the rule “Savings”, remove the step “Take the difference of that author’s Points before the previous step and after the previous step and add that difference to that author’s Coins.” from the Resolving a Backronym action, and remove ” unless that Wordsmith first spends 3 Coins for each word in that title that is found in The Word Bank.” from The Word Bank rule.

If the proposal “Without Fear or Favour” is enacted, this proposal does nothing.

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

For the purpose of matching Favorites to words, or for the purposes of restrictions on selecting Favorites by comparison to existing corpora, differences in pluralization, tense or grammatical aspect are considered to be irrelevant unless they change the first letter of the word.

In Proposalnym, change “As a Round Action, a Wordsmith who has posted a Proposalnym since the last time Acrogenerate was performed may claim 1 point. ” into

As a Round Action, a Wordsmith who has posted a Proposalnym since the last time Acrogenerate was performed may claim 1 point if the blog is not in a state of Endgame.

Add the following to the end of the rule Favorites:

For the purpose of matching Favorites to words, or for the purposes of restrictions on selecting Favorites by comparison to existing corpora, differences in pluralization, tense or grammatical aspect are considered to be irrelevant.

As a daily action, if they have not added any words to their Favorites that day, and if an official post other than a Backronym has been posted by any other Wordsmith or the Puzzler that day that includes a word from their Favorites in its title, a Wordsmith may make a Claim. A Claim is a post in the Story Posts category that details the word in their Favorites and the post that uses it in the title. Upon posting a Claim, the Wordsmith may gain 1 point for every word from their Favorites that was thus used. The Puzzler should then remove that word from that Wordsmith’s Favorites.

In the same rule, change the second item in the bulleted list to read:

That word is not in the Word Bank, and has not been used in the title of an official post in the current dynasty.

Add the following to the end of the rule The Threshold:

If an Endgame Acronym has been posted, and a number of Backronyms equal to at least half of quorum has been posted in response to it, and there are no open Backronyms, then the Acrogenerate action may not be undertaken and, if there is a single Wordsmith with the highest Points, that Wordsmith has achieved Victory.

Under the rule “The Threshold”, add a sentence at the end of the first line that mentions “Endgame Wordsmiths”:

The Endgame Wordsmiths list shall exist if and only if the game is either in a state of Endgame or the dynastic action “Endgame Transition” is being performed. While it exists, it shall be publicly tracked.

Also, to normalize the grammar, replace the one instance of “Endgame Wordsmith list” with “Endgame Wordsmiths list”.

In “No Private Communications”; amend “A mentor and mentee may still privately converse with each other, but should keep their conversations away from discussing specific gameplay strategy. This rule’s restrictions on communication do not apply during an Interregnum. The restrictions in this rule on communication in non-blognomic-related media shall not be construed as to cause those media to be gamestate. ” into

A mentor and mentee may still privately converse with each other, but the mentor and the mentee should not pursue strategies that is based on the private information of the other party.

The restrictions on communication due to the Rule No Private Communication do not apply during an Interregnum.

I feel like Endgame Wordsmiths is an orphan variable. There’s no mention of where it’s tracked. The only two references to it say “the Endgame Wordsmiths list”.

I’d propose a fix but I don’t have available Proposal slots.

In “No Private Communications”; amend “A mentor and mentee may still privately converse with each other, but should keep their conversations away from discussing specific gameplay strategy. This rule’s restrictions on communication do not apply during an Interregnum. The restrictions in this rule on communication in non-blognomic-related media shall not be construed as to cause those media to be gamestate. ” into

A mentor and mentee may still privately converse with each other, but the mentor and the mentee should not pursue strategies that is based on the private information of the other party.

In “No Private Communications”, add a new subrule with the following text:

This rule’s restrictions on communication do not apply during an Interregnum, even if this rule is active.

In the rule “No Private Communication”, replace the text “disclosing what information was discussed” with “containing a full transcript of the discussion”.

In “No Private Communications”; amend “A mentor and mentee may still privately converse with each other, but should keep their conversations away from discussing specific gameplay strategy. This rule’s restrictions on communication do not apply during an Interregnum. The restrictions in this rule on communication in non-blognomic-related media shall not be construed as to cause those media to be gamestate. ” into

A mentor and mentee may still privately converse with each other, but the mentor and the mentee should not pursue strategies that is based on the private information of the other party.

In the rule “No Private Communication”, after the text “the Wordsmiths who were part of the conversation should make a post to the blog disclosing what information was discussed at their earliest convenience”, add the following text:

, including the details of what was discussed about dynastic gameplay or votable matters that affect the dynastic ruleset or gamestate

During a mentoring conversation with aria yesterday I inadvertently tripped over into a violation of the following prohibition in the rule No Private Communications:

A mentor and mentee may still privately converse with each other, but should keep their conversations away from discussing specific gameplay strategy.

In the conversation, aria asked me why I had voted as I had on Proposal: Remove Rewards for Better Merit and I outlined the gameplay considerations that went into determining my vote.

Uphold Chiiika’s enactment of Reform of Recuperative Break Management at 10 Jul 2025 04:23:40 UTC.

If the current Acronym is RRBM and Trapdoorspyder isn’t idle, skip the rest of this proposal.

Repeal “Yielding”.

Remove both bullet points in the ruleset that read “Set every Wordsmith’s Status to Playing.”

Replace the phrase “Playing Wordsmith” with “Wordsmith” throughout the ruleset.

In the rule “Scoring”, change the sentence

For each Wordsmith other than the Puzzler that did not post a Scoring to that Backronym, subtract 1 from that Wordsmith’s Points, to a minimum of 0, unless the author of that Backronym is that Wordsmith

to

For each Wordsmith other than the Puzzler that did not post a Scoring to that Backronym, subtract 1 from that Wordsmith’s Points, to a minimum of 0, unless the author of that Backronym is that Wordsmith or that Wordsmith was not a Wordsmith when the Backronym was posted

Remove the rule Buzzwords and any ruleset items that mention Buzzword or Buzzwords.

Add a new rule under Scoring, named Key Engagement Parameter; with the following text

The Key Engagement Parameter is a private English word tracked only by the Puzzler.

In Acrogenerate, after “Set the current Acrotype to be Secret, and then perform the Steps for that Acrotype, 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.” and in The Threshold, after “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.” add the following point:

- Generate a Key Engagement Parameter by randomly choosing a word from the EFF Wordlist that satisfies the following limitations; randomly choose again if it fails any of the limitation until a suitable word is found:
  - The first letter of the Key Engagement Parameter must be a letter that exist within the Acronym.
  - It must not exist within the Word Bank.

- Readying a Keynote Transmission by searching it’s definition on Cambridge Dictionary; randomly choosing one definition of the word if it has more than one definition; and replacing up to half of the words within that transmission with [bzzt]. The resultant string is the Keynote Transmission.

In Acrogenerate, replace “Make a Story Post with a title that starts with the text “New Acronym: ” followed by the value of Acronym.” with

Make a Story Post with a title that starts with the text “New Acronym: ” followed by the value of Acronym and the Keynote Transmission within the post.

In The Threshold, replace “Make a Story Post with a title that starts with the text “Endgame Acronym: ” followed by the value of Acronym.” with

Make a Story Post with a title that starts with the text “Endgame Acronym: ” followed by the value of Acronym and the Keynote Transmission within the post.

In Scoring, after the point “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, or twice the result if the state of the blog is Endgame. If no such numbers were recorded, use the value 4 instead. If this rounded value is 1, then the Backronym is considered a Flop and any later steps in this action that would award Points to the Backronym’s author are skipped.” add

If the title of the Backronym includes the Key Transmission Parameter and the Backronym is posted within 24 hours of the most recent Acrogenerate action; increase the Points of the author of that Backronym by 2 and increase the Coins of the author of that Backronym by 3.

Unidle Chiiika. Quorum raises to 6.

In “Scoring”, replace “along with any flavor text” with:-

and (if the current Acronym is not RRBM) at least one word of flavor text

aria to be mentored by Josh until the Sixth Dynasty of JonathanDark has ended and the date is past the 6th of August 2025.

Hi! I am new, and am requesting to be unidled.

In “Scoring” replace “For each Wordsmith that posted a Scoring to that Backronym” with “For each Wordsmith other than the author of the Backronym that posted a Scoring to that Backronym”

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)