Word games!

On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 04:25:11PM -0700, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> Incongruously obconlang: Anyone have license-plate games or the equivalent
> for their conlangs?  <G>  (Or whatever mutilation thereof.)  Scrabble?
Bored noblemen and women in my conculture like to sit around playing
"cethimmethi" (word-mixing).  In cethimmethi, the first player specifies
a word, for example, 'raca' (wheel).  The next player must then say a word
that adds, deletes, or changes only one letter.  For example, 'rava' (night)
or 'traca' (stomach) would both be valid responses.  If a player cannot think
of a word, they are out of the game.

Various 'house rules' for cethimmethi that change often are allowing plural
forms ('racath' is the plural of 'raca', which makes it legal, but a little
bit too easy), and a cap on the maximum and minimum word lengths.