Ghost

This is a cute little game I used to play a lot when I was younger. The purpose is to take the previous letter or string of letters and add to it in the eventual goal of reaching a complete word. Each word must be at least 4 letters long to count as "complete". Proper nouns do not count (London, Jacob, etc.) The catch is; if you are the one to complete a word, you lose the round and get a letter in "GHOST". The first one to "GHOST" loses the game and the next game can begin. You should have an actual word in mind you're trying to spell; if you think the person before you doesn't actually have a valid word in mind, you can end the round by challenging them, after which, they have to put down the word they were thinking. If you catch them cheating, they lose the round, if they put down a valid word, you lose the round.

For the sake of camaraderie, if a word has more than one spelling (i.e. Color/Colour) both are valid.

Here's an example round:

Troper 1: New Round - A

Troper 2: Aa

Troper 3: Aar

Troper 2: Aard

Troper 3: Aardw

Troper 1: Challenge

Troper 3: Aardwolf

Troper 1: G.H.O.

Update:

We have a few new versions to play with:

• Superghost: add a letter to the beginning or end of a word
• Superduperghost: choose whether or not to flip the group of letters and then add a letter to the beginning or end of a word
• Xghost (aka: Llama) add letters into anywhere in the group
• Spook: add letters into a pool (i.e. B, S, F, U, A, H, L for Bashful)

Every full game or two, we'll change the version we're using, we'll probably end up voting on which version we use for which game. If you're jumping in, feel free to ask what version is being used.

edited 12th Jun '15 8:41:18 PM by GhostElm

R

RE

REV

REVE

REVEN

REVENA

REVENAN

REVENANT

edited 28th May '15 3:15:28 PM by engie

So, that's a G for Engie

Someone want to start the next round?

I'll do it.

B

BU

BUT

BUR

, check

belay that

edited 28th May '15 3:32:03 PM by Blackie

I suppose we can skip over link... sorry link

Butl

Butle

BUTLE

Butler

Ghost Elm - G

edited 28th May '15 4:01:00 PM by GhostElm

BUTLERI

New Round: L

aww, I wanted to go to Butlerite

LI

sorry... once a word's complete, the round's over, unless we want to amend the rules for TV Tropes... which might be an option... I'll look over some variations of the game and report back