UBERhelp1
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Welcome to Word Shift!
This game is a little more intellectual than some of the others. Word Shift is simple: starting with one word, players can do one of a series of actions to that word. The next player does another action, and the chain continues. The allowed actions are:
- Adding any one letter to the word (in any spot)
- Removing any one letter of the word (in any spot)
- Changing one letter to another
- Moving one letter of the word
- Word Shift (scramble the word)
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To perform a word shift, the letters of the word are scrambled. For example, if the word was "pots" and you wanted to do a Word Shift, the new word could be "tops." You can see another example of this in the example game spoiler below
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- SH
- ST
- CH
- TH
However, the new word must be a word in English, and you can not undo a change immediately (for example, if one player adds a letter, you can not, as the next poster, remove that letter). Additionally, there is no double posting.
An example round can be seen below in the spoiler.
Move | Action | New Word |
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Start of Game | Starting Word | Mart |
1 | Remove a letter | Mar |
2 | Add a letter | Mare |
3 | Change a letter | Hare |
4 | Remove one letter | Are |
5 | Change a letter | Ore |
6 | Add a letter combination | Store |
7 | Remove a letter | Sore |
8 | Word Shift | Rose |
... | ... | ... |
If, at any point, the word becomes "stuck" and there is no other way to change it to be a new word other than undoing the previous poster's action, then a new word can be given if at least three posters agree that it is stuck (this is in place to prevent people becoming uncreative and just starting a new word every time).
So, to start this new game, the word will be: SHIFT
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