Tuesday, July 01, 2025

Proposal: Playing Favorites

Popular, 7-0. Enacted by JonathanDark.

Adminned at 02 Jul 2025 14:26:59 UTC

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

Each Wordsmith has Favorites privately tracked by the Puzzler. Favorites are either empty or a list of 1 to 5 words, defaulting to empty. As a Virtual Round Action, a Wordsmith may add words to their Favorites, up to the maximum words allowed, as long as each of the words added to their Favorites meet all of the following criteria:
* The first letter of that word is not one of the letters in the current Acronym
* That word is not in the Word Bank
* That word is not one of the Filler Words

In the rule “Scoring”, insert the following step before the step “Post a comment to that Backronym containing all of the following”:

* For each Wordsmith who is not the author of that Backronym, 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 and remove that word from that Wordsmith’s Favorites.

Get Points for successfully predicting what words your fellow Wordsmiths will use in future Backronyms if those letters come up.

Comments

Josh: he/they

01-07-2025 15:10:54 UTC

for

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

01-07-2025 15:43:32 UTC

for

Kevan: Yard he/him

01-07-2025 15:47:54 UTC

for

DoomedIdeas: he/him

01-07-2025 16:00:12 UTC

for

DeactivatedUser4498:

02-07-2025 00:04:23 UTC

for

Darknight: he/him

02-07-2025 01:37:46 UTC

for