And that's game. LOL On Tuesday, January 1, 2013 9:37:13 PM UTC-5, Cringing Dragon wrote:
> To play the game, post a song that has a word match to the previous song. > The word match may be from and word in the song title or artist name. To > avoid confusion, Use the format "Song Title by Artist", and *bold *the > word you are using as your link word. > > The same link word may only be used 3 times in a row. After that the link > word is temporarily locked (until a different link word has been used). If > your play has used the link word for the 3rd time, make a comment to that > effect in your post so that new players know. > > Cover song rule: you can't link a song (or cover) to the same song (or > cover). > > Same artist rule: you can't use the artist name to link to the same artist > name (you can have the same artist twice in a row, so long as it wasn't > artist-artist as the link). > > Flip-flop rule - the above 2 rules extend out to the subsequent song - you > can't link *artist* -> *song *-> *same artist* by using a word in the > artist name. Same for song covers. > > Words such as *the, a, an, and, or* can't be used as the link word (there > should be more in this list, but I can't remember them). > > Plurality, tense, prefixes, suffixes, etc don't matter - *game, games, > gaming, gamed, gamer*, *ungame* are all the same root word and may be > linked to one another. Except that if the word has changed completely then > the link can't be made (eg *is* and *are*). > > Homophones: words that sound alike may be used as links regardless of > spelling or meaning. > > Word splitting: a word or part of a word may be linked on any of the root > words within it. Ie Superman may be linked on Super or man. In this case > the word must be a root word of the word being split, "nowhere" can be > linked to "no" or "where", but NOT to "now" or "here". This rule may not be > combined with the homophone rule. > > English only please - to avoid arguments over homophones and root words in > different languages, please stick to English language songs. > > So here's the first song to get us started: > I'm Going Slightly Mad by Queen > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BGG Down" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/bgg_down/-/9uhCBoblkWYJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bgg_down?hl=en.
