Telephone, anyone?

[Courk]

Wandering through Wikipedia, I came across an article on Textual Criticism. Basically, someone has 5 distinct copies of text, none of which are original, and then tries to figure out what the original text actually said.

It made me think of that old game telephone, or Chinese whispers, or whatever you want to call it. Its obvious how a whispered verbal message can be corrupted, but I'm now curious how a text-based message would be corrupted (aside from translation programs).

So, Rules:

1. Sign up
2. I'll list you all in order
3. You will receive a message from the person above you
4. You will re-type that message and send it to the person below you. If you are the last person on the list, you will post the message here.
5. You can only read the message you receive once before re-typing and sending it
6. You cannot copy-and-paste the message
7. Don't actively try to change the message, but also don't fret over not getting it quite right -- that's the point

Who's willing to entertain me?

Players:

1. Courk
   
2. wordcross
   
3. bgg1996
   
4. MatthewV
   
5. Antrax
   
6. Amb
   
7. Zag
   
8. MNOWAX
   
9. 3iff
   
10. Sentran
    
11. Chuck
    
12. groza528
    
13. Silverfire
    
14. ralphmerridew
    
15. Undercover Monk

Please PM me the message you are sending as well so I can post all of them later, and also keep track of who currently has received messages.

[wordcross]

in
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[bgg1996]

I'll play.

At the end, could we all see who distorted the message the most?
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[MatthewV]

I'll play. I hope it is longer than two words!

[Antrax]

Sounds like fun.
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[Amb]

Wandering through wikipedia, I stumbed up an article about criticism. Someone has five copes of text none of which are original and they try to figure out what it original text. It remind me of the old game Chinese whispers and Im curious how a text based game would be corrupted.

/In

[Zag]

Sure. Sounds amusing

[MNOWAX]

what they said.
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[3iff]

I'll have a go

[Sentran]

Why not, I'm [in].
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[Chuck]

I'll play, but I've been typing what's in front of my face since 1977. I might get my copy right.

If this doesn't work, another experiment might be to allow copy and paste but each player must change exactly one word in the text to another word while changing the meaning at little as possible.

[groza528]

Eh what the heck, I'll give it a shot.
Is the message for this game going to be original? If not, and we recognize it, is it cheating to correct errors made by people before us?

[Silverfire]

Perhaps the idea is to read the whole message, then stop looking at it and try to remember what was said. Anyway, this sounds like fun. /in

[Courk]

What Silverfire said. Read the message, then after reading it, retype what it says without looking at it.

It will be an original message.

[Zag]

You should make the original message a bunch of innocuous but slightly suggestive made-up gossip about GL'ers.

[ralphmerridew]

Enter tailless Cole's leg bone (5,2)

[Undercover Monk]

/in without witty retort
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[crk*]

I'll close submissions in a little over 24 hrs, around 7pm EST Sunday.

[MatthewV]

I am sure a nearly fifty year old chain smoking truck driver can come up with a good sentence or two!

[Courk]

Courk
wordcross
bgg1996
MatthewV
Antrax
Amb
Zag
MNOWAX
3iff
Sentran
Chuck
groza528
Silverfire
ralphmerridew
Undercover Monk

Please PM me once you've sent your message so I can keep track of the game.

[Zag]

You should include a copy of your message when you PM Courk, so she can post the whole list when we're done.

[Amb]

I'm curious as to how complex the message will be...

[Courk]

Ooh, yes, what Zag said.

[3iff]

I'm guessing it'll be long enough for us to forget parts of it while we're typing our version.

Memory like a goldfish, anyone?

[wordcross]

/sent mine
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[bgg1996]

Sent mine.
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[bgg1996]

This is going to be funny.
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[MatthewV]

Hmmm I knew I was too tired to open and send... but the next few days are going to be worse

[Antrax]

Sent to amb.
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[Amb]

I rang Zag and passed on the secret instructions.

[3iff]

Message passed to Sentran.

[Sentran]

Message passed to Chuck
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[Chuck]

Message passed on to groza.

[ralphmerridew]

I move that Chuck copy-pastes the message he sent to groza to Silverfire.

[Chuck]

I sent a copy to Courk so she can send it to Silverfire when she gets tired of waiting.

[dethwing]

I think this would be a lot more interesting if it was done in the style of Telestrations. (Or "Eat poop you cat" as it's known on BGG).

Basically you alternate words and pictures. One person is given a word or phrase and they draw a picture of it. The next person looks at the picture and tries to guess what the word was. The next person draws a picture that guess, and so on. Then you see how far away the guess is from the first word.

[Undercover Monk]

still waiting I hate being last lol
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The Classic Blunders:
1. never get involved in a land war in Asia
2.Never go in against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line
3. Never release Peyton Manning

[Amb]

We should telephone a reply back up the chain so you can be first. Reply should be wayyy more complicated

[Silverfire]

Message passed on to ralphmerridew.

[ralphmerridew]

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