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,”
When the Acrotype is Secret, the Puzzler can add in their own Backronym to help obscure the authors of the others, but nobody gains or loses Points on the Puzzler’s Backronym.
Trapdoorspyder: he/him