Saturday, June 28, 2025

Proposal: Cool Shiny Stuff

Add a new rule named “Savings” with the following text:

Each Wordsmith has a publicly tracked number of Coins, defaulting to 0. Each Wordsmith has a Savings, privately tracked by the Puzzler, which is a number between 0 to 5 inclusive and defaults to 0.

In the rule “Savings”, if “Backronymous” was enacted, insert the following text as a new paragraph:

If a Wordsmith has not posted a Backronym since the most recent Acrogenerate, as a Virtual Action they may set their Savings to a valid value.

otherwise insert the following text as a new paragraph:

If a Wordsmith has not posted a Backronym since the most recent Acrogenerate, they may privately notify the Puzzler with a new valid value for their Savings.

In the rule “Scoring”, insert the following steps before the step “Mark that Backronym as Enacted.” in Resolving a Backronym:

* Subtract the Savings of the author of that Backronym from that author’s Points, to a minimum of 0 Points, then set that author’s Savings to 0.
* 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.

In the rule “The Word Bank”, after the text “A Wordsmith may not post a Backronym if the title contains any words currently found in The Word Bank”, add the following text:

, unless that Wordsmith first spends 3 Coins for each word in that title that is found in The Word Bank.

Sacrifice your own Points now to be able to overcome the Word Bank later. Coins could have other uses as well.

Comments

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

28-06-2025 05:22:48 UTC

for

Raven1207: he/they

28-06-2025 09:05:02 UTC

for

Sure

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