Re: Word games!

Nik Taylor wrote:

>There's a word game I learned once called "Ghost".  It works this way,
>the first person says a letter, say, "A", then the second person has to
>think of a word beginning with that letter (say, "apple") and say the
>first two letters, thus AP, then the first person has to think of a word
>beginning with those two letters (say, "apricot") and say the first
>three letters, thus APR, and so on.  If one of them thinks the other is
>bluffing, he can challenge him to say the word he's thinking of, if he
>can produce a word, then the challenger loses, but if he couldn't then
>the challenger wins.  You also lose if you produce an actual word, thus
>if you added "e" to AP, producing "APE" then you lose, or if you can't
>come up with anything.

I've played a version of that-- the difference being that the first letter,
and subsequent additions, can be from anywhere in the word.  So:  K - NK -
NKS - NKST - and so on (inkstand).  I don't remember the bit about creating
an actual word, though.

Another one involved spelling words out, but with unnatural breaks:  "How do
you pronounce bee eh see (pause)  kay eh see (pause)   aitch ee?"