Word-Match Misc - Team Teal (Arete and Vulgard) Win!!!

[Whysper]

A variation I was thinking about would be to have a set number of phases and keep all teams until the end and then total up their scores and see who had the fewest rounds overall. That way everyone could play the whole time and we could also see if there might be a comeback later.

[Marshal]

Wooden stake & Inject → stab is also a good example of this one

[Marshal]

I also think this is what team teal did a good job at avoiding and it sort of annoyed me to not be able to say this in the thread because I didn’t want to influence strategy too much but I think avoiding this pitfall was why they performed the way they did and not word rng

[Intensify]

I can’t believe Arete won this game by themselves

[Blizer]

Yeah

Vulgard was an alt for Arete smh

[nightingale]

i think what litten did by throwing a round to make the next round easier (with “or”) is a good concept
“or” just sucked as a choice in particular, where words like big, small, opposite, etc. tend to work significantly better

[Whysper]

I actually wasn’t sure that “or” should be allowed since it wasn’t technically related to either word other than “or” being within “door”. Otherwise, yeah, people might start doing a strategy of using a throw-away word so that the focus can be on a single word next round instead of the combo of 2.

[Arete]

I was trying not to do that because I wasn’t sure if it was allowed or not

…although I did sort of do it by accident a couple times, like I submitted ‘bus’ as an answer thinking about the vehicle and then a couple minutes later I was like ‘WAIT THAT’S ALSO A MAFIA TERM’

[Litten]

I figured it was allowed if they were related

[Litten]

That said door and or have the same lettersso I consider them related

door and or even sound similar :’)

[Litten]

like “or” you can reasonably argue that it is related since it’s apart of door

but if you were to put dicey dungeons for that quesTion I figured marshAl would smack you if you couldn’t explain yourself

[GGhana]

@Marshal

It especially got hard because you couldn’t repeat words, so when both teams centered their submission around that word, it got really difficult to decide what to do next. Teams ended up choosing close words to the previous word and going in a loop for a while.

yeah this is what fucked us over

[GGhana]

I tried deliberately to stick to hyper specific things that would be easy to make words with (such as Olympics) but when I picked mjolnir and it didn’t count we were just fucked

[Whysper]

@GGhana

I tried deliberately to stick to hyper specific things that would be easy to make words with (such as Olympics)

Actually this is a good example of what Marshal was talking about. “Olympics” was clever but ​only focused on the one word “Athlete” and didn’t really account for “New”. We were both already thinking “Rookie” would fit perfect when combining those 2 words, and that’s what Nutella picked.

As for Mjolnir, I take it you haven’t watched the Marvel movies since you seemed confused by “Worthy”. Though “Weapon” was still a good choice and one I had also thought about before thinking “Worthy” was even better.

[Whysper]

That being said, I’m glad I was helping to host instead of playing. I was imagining how badly I would do.

I was completely amazed by some of the words people came up with. Like when you had “Mile” and “Represent”, I was wondering what in the world you could do for that. When Nutella said “Odometer” I thought, wow, that’s brilliant! And even your “United States” was great because they use miles and there’s the House of Representatives. I hadn’t even considered either.

[Litten]

someone mentioned earlier that making this a competition made it seem less fun

I agree

two rounds were ended early which wouldn’t have been the case if people joined just to match words

[Litten]

I understand why Arctic didn’t want to continue but it’s disappointing that even if we lost that means it’s “a waste of time” trying to continue

[Whysper]

Yeah, that’s part of why I think doing an overall score from everyone competing in all phases and then final ranking might be a good change rather than the successive eliminations

[Whysper]

@Whysper

A variation I was thinking about would be to have a set number of phases and keep all teams until the end and then total up their scores and see who had the fewest rounds overall. That way everyone could play the whole time and we could also see if there might be a comeback later.

So like this instead

[Whysper]

Oh, another idea I had concerned the starting words. As a compromise between picking your own words (which might be unfair) and being given random words, maybe have each partner get 2 or 3 random words from which they choose their own starting word.

So like partner A might be given “thread”, “sweet”, and “anger” and choose “anger” and partner B might get “quiet”, “banish”, and “cap” and choose “cap”. Then their 1st round words are “anger” and “cap”. That way they at least each have their individual influence over the 1st words.