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MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

Wandering through ~~Wikipedia~~ the GL, I came across a game called Telephone. Basically, someone copies of text my memory to the next person and tries to keep it original.

It made Courk 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 she was 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~~ if a similar group of people play, we are going to start at the bottom of the last list and move up.
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?

Player order:
Sentran
Undercover Monk
Courk
Chuck
Ctorj
Zag
Amb
MNOWAX
wordcross
dethwing
ralphmerridew
3iff
Antrax
bgg1996

Zag · Tired of his old title

MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

You shouldn't need practice with a one word message.

Zag · Tired of his old title

Ctorj · Did I spell that right?

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Sentran · Ray of Sucking Funshine

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Amb · Amb the Hitched.

MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

Any requests for a theme? I have made the message yet.

dethwing · DeTheeThaw

I'll give this one a shot.

bgg1996 · BeeGees are awesome!

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Just keep it short
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Amb · Amb the Hitched.

No keep it long please.

ralphmerridew · Daedalian Member

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Keep it medium-length

Antrax · ESL Student

Sure.
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Courk · Daedalian Member

3iff · very unbifflike

In ... medium length message. It'll get truncated quite severely as the last one did so don't make it too short.

MNOWAX · 0.999... of a Troll

a wall of text, please. in
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MNOWAX

Undercover Monk · Professor Chaos

Ring ring hello I'm in
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Chuck · Daedalian Member

I shall, again, participate.

wordcross · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:39 pm Post subject: 19

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Silverfire · Daedalian Member

ralphmerridew · Daedalian Member

Suggestion: Add a rule about how long to wait for a player.

Ctorj · Did I spell that right?

Make it so long, it breaks all our phones.
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MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

This will be starting tomorrow.

3iff · very unbifflike

Make a note that I'm AFK during weekends, so you may need to adjust my place in the list accordingly.

MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

So I decided to use a little story posted by someone on the GL. When you send your version of the story for me (to compile at the end), please include a guess about who the original poster was.

Player order:
Sentran
Undercover Monk
Courk
Chuck
Ctorj
Zag
Amb
MNOWAX
wordcross
dethwing
ralphmerridew
3iff
Antrax
bgg1996

Sentran · Ray of Sucking Funshine

Sent mine already, but forgot to post that I'd sent it.
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Chuck · Daedalian Member

I sent to Ctorj about 53 hours ago. It's in my sentbox so it has been picked up.

Amb · Amb the Hitched.

Zag rang me. I rang MNOWAX. And there you go.

MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

Undercover Monk, Ctorj, and Amb didn't send to me also.

And Courk is the only person to guess at who the original poster was (unfortunately incorrectly)

Amb · Amb the Hitched.

Where are we at?

dethwing · DeTheeThaw

I haven't gotten anything yet, so it's above me.

Amb · Amb the Hitched.

So either Wordcross or MNOWAX.

MNOWAX · 0.999... of a Troll

uh oh, it was me I sent it to Matt, but not to Wordcross

Sorry!
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MNOWAX

wordcross · Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 2:52 pm Post subject: 34

sent to dethwing.
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Sentran · Ray of Sucking Funshine

dethwing · DeTheeThaw

Received and passed on.

ralphmerridew · Daedalian Member

3iff · very unbifflike

Phoning Antrax now...

Antrax · ESL Student

Sent to MattV and bgg1996.
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bgg1996 · BeeGees are awesome!

Do I post what I received, or my own garbled version?
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