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Contact!

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Words for the guessing game of Contact, which is remarkably effective at killing time when you're with 2 or more people. The game is similar to Botticelli.
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caesura   has been listed 40 times with 0 comments
inchoate   has been listed 144 times with 7 comments
zinnwaldite   has been listed 8 times with 0 comments
tumescent   has been listed 28 times with 1 comment
polysemy   has been listed 23 times with 0 comments
erinaceous   has been listed 13 times with 3 comments
gammon   has been listed 13 times with 0 comments
smilodon   has been listed 2 times with 3 comments
bespawl   has been listed 2 times with 0 comments
tergiversation   has been listed 19 times with 0 comments
herostratic   has been listed 1 time with 1 comment
terpsichorean   has been listed 31 times with 6 comments
brownstone   has been listed 3 times with 0 comments
captious   has been listed 35 times with 3 comments
concomitant   has been listed 39 times with 2 comments
jeremiad   has been listed 51 times with 3 comments
wainscot   has been listed 9 times with 0 comments
avuncular   has been listed 107 times with 4 comments
ramshackle   has been listed 29 times with 0 comments
borborygmus   has been listed 44 times with 3 comments
suzerainty   has been listed 5 times with 0 comments
agora   has been listed 7 times with 0 comments
amphora   has been listed 17 times with 1 comment
porcine   has been listed 39 times with 1 comment
selfsame   has been listed 6 times with 0 comments
happenstance   has been listed 45 times with 0 comments
jingoism   has been listed 26 times with 1 comment
raconteur   has been listed 90 times with 3 comments
rugose   has been listed 10 times with 2 comments
squamous   has been listed 29 times with 2 comments
leitmotif   has been listed 36 times with 3 comments
panjandrum   has been listed 39 times with 2 comments
decoupage   has been listed 10 times with 0 comments
inculcate   has been listed 54 times with 5 comments
roman à clef   has been listed 4 times with 0 comments
truncheon   has been listed 24 times with 0 comments
repudiate   has been listed 31 times with 1 comment
onanism   has been listed 25 times with 8 comments
tincture   has been listed 42 times with 2 comments
crepuscular   has been listed 172 times with 11 comments
palimpsest   has been listed 150 times with 5 comments
whatchamacallit   has been listed 17 times with 1 comment
sebaceous   has been listed 12 times with 0 comments
grisly   has been listed 11 times with 1 comment
luftmensch   has been listed 6 times with 0 comments
crwth   has been listed 19 times with 2 comments
meretricious   has been listed 90 times with 4 comments
couscous   has been listed 26 times with 5 comments
prestidigitator   has been listed 7 times with 0 comments
encyclical   has been listed 8 times with 0 comments
adventitious   has been listed 18 times with 3 comments
conniption   has been listed 21 times with 1 comment
prosopagnosia   has been listed 15 times with 2 comments
zoetrope   has been listed 19 times with 0 comments
stentorian   has been listed 64 times with 5 comments
waif   has been listed 29 times with 0 comments
doggerel   has been listed 35 times with 0 comments
postlapsarian   has been listed 6 times with 1 comment
vivisect   has been listed 5 times with 1 comment
pessary   has been listed 7 times with 0 comments
adamantine   has been listed 42 times with 2 comments
copacetic   has been listed 72 times with 12 comments
solipsism   has been listed 121 times with 32 comments
fungible   has been listed 66 times with 2 comments
totemic   has been listed 2 times with 0 comments
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about 1 month ago shadytrees said:

Played terpsichorean at Vivek's party.

3 months ago shadytrees said:

Ha, I didn't even know about Boticelli! Thanks for the link!

3 months ago Asativum said:

Aha -- thanks. Like Boticelli, only with improper nouns instead of names.

3 months ago shadytrees said:

Wikipedia has a good overview of the rules.

3 months ago Asativum said:

How do you play this game?

3 months ago shadytrees said:

Played borborygmus successfully while waiting for vans to GSK.

3 months ago shadytrees said:

Last day: Played selfsame and stumped Vivek.

Today (6/12): Won on suzerainty until Nabil looked it up.

4 months ago shadytrees said:

Well, I don't think I'll ever be able to play Contact again.

4 months ago shadytrees said:

agora is a particularly good word. Even though it's short, people will run out at ago if I'm predicting correctly.

4 months ago shadytrees said:

5/23: Calvin got jingoism on the bus.

4 months ago shadytrees said:

5/7: squamous and rugose played and won.

4 months ago shadytrees said:

5/3: Daniel got conniption at the National Museum of Natural History.

5 months ago shadytrees said:

4/28: Shriram profferred leitmotif.

5 months ago shadytrees said:

4/20: I won on postlapsarian at the NC STM dinner.

5 months ago shadytrees said:

4/17: Daniel got solipsism. Shriram got prestidigitator. I won on prosopagnosia.

5 months ago shadytrees said:

4/16: totemic, fungible, and couscous played. Vivek got couscous, I won the rest.

5 months ago shadytrees said:

4/15: adamantine and zoetrope successfully played. adamantine has the problem of having the common word "adamant" being guessed; trying arguing that one off.

5 months ago shadytrees said:

4/5: vivisect successfully stumped everybody at Science Olympiad.

6 months ago shadytrees said:

Wikipedia has a good overview of the rules.

6 months ago yarb said:

This game sounds like fun! How does it work?

6 months ago shadytrees said:

Previously: Daniel got stentorian.

6 months ago shadytrees said:

3/28: Vivek got doggerel thanks to Achenbach.

6 months ago shadytrees said:

waif is better used as an awesome clue than an actual Wordmaster word.

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