On 27/05/14 23:27, Warp wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 May 2014 23:07:01 +0100, Stephen wrote:
>>> A country edition.
>>>
>>> Pigswill.
> 
>> Stilton
> 
> Damned if I understand what's happening here.
> 

Swift set of rules from H2G2:
> Cheddar Gorge is a game featured on the Radio 4 program I'm sorry I haven't a clue.
> 
> How Do I Play?
> 
> It's really easy. The first player chooses a word to start a sentence. Subsequent
players add a word to continue the sentence in a coherent manner. The only catch is,
your word cannot be construed as ending the sentence - if it can, you lose.
> 
> Can I see an example?
> 
>     Player 1: The
>     Player 2: large
>     Player 3: dog
>     Player 1: chased
>     Player 2: a
>     Player 3: ball
> 
> Player 3 loses, because the sentence 'The large dog chased a ball', contain as it
does, subject, object and verb. S/he need not have lost, because they could have
continued the sentence with an adjective, like red, but they didn't.
> 
> For someone to lose, there has to be a challenge, by the next player. As a player,
you lose if
> 
> 1) You have completed a sentence
> 
> or
> 
> 2) You have played in such a way that the sentence cannot be finished as a piece of
grammatical English.
> 
> The player whose turn it is can make either of these challenges against the previous
player - the previous player loses if, in case (1), the sentence is completed, or in
case (2) they cannot, within one post, produce a valid English sentence starting with
the words already played. Any form of 'creative punctuation' is fair game, as long as
the final sentence makes grammatical sense. If they can make a valid sentence, the
challenger loses.
> 
> In any case, once a challenge is issued that game is over, and the challenger plays
the first word of the next game while the completed game awaits adjudication by the
tournament referee.
> 
> Once you have played a word, you take responsibility for all the preceding words -
if the sentence couldn't be completed, and you add a word, the next player challenges
you, not the person who made the play which first rendered the sentence uncompletable.


John
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Protect the Earth
It was not given to you by your parents
You hold it in trust for your children

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