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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.
Words 1 through 72 of 72

calenture   has been listed 20 times with 4 comments

petrichor   has been listed 112 times with 4 comments

catawampus   has been listed 11 times with 1 comment

dysphemism   has been listed 31 times with 5 comments

hapax legomenon   has been listed 48 times with 9 comments

anacreonteus   has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

cotillion   has been listed 18 times with 1 comment

caesura   has been listed 54 times with 1 comment

inchoate   has been listed 199 times with 9 comments

zinnwaldite   has been listed 9 times with 0 comments

tumescent   has been listed 31 times with 1 comment

polysemy   has been listed 31 times with 0 comments

erinaceous   has been listed 21 times with 3 comments

gammon   has been listed 16 times with 2 comments

smilodon   has been listed 5 times with 4 comments

bespawl   has been listed 2 times with 0 comments

tergiversation   has been listed 33 times with 3 comments

herostratic   has been listed 1 time with 1 comment

terpsichorean   has been listed 39 times with 13 comments

brownstone   has been listed 4 times with 0 comments

captious   has been listed 52 times with 4 comments

concomitant   has been listed 50 times with 2 comments

jeremiad   has been listed 64 times with 6 comments

wainscot   has been listed 9 times with 0 comments

avuncular   has been listed 142 times with 5 comments

ramshackle   has been listed 35 times with 0 comments

borborygmus   has been listed 63 times with 5 comments

suzerainty   has been listed 12 times with 1 comment

agora   has been listed 9 times with 0 comments

amphora   has been listed 23 times with 2 comments

porcine   has been listed 48 times with 1 comment

selfsame   has been listed 6 times with 0 comments

happenstance   has been listed 57 times with 1 comment

jingoism   has been listed 35 times with 1 comment

raconteur   has been listed 108 times with 3 comments

rugose   has been listed 13 times with 2 comments

squamous   has been listed 36 times with 3 comments

leitmotif   has been listed 49 times with 3 comments

panjandrum   has been listed 48 times with 2 comments

decoupage   has been listed 12 times with 0 comments

inculcate   has been listed 61 times with 5 comments

roman à clef   has been listed 6 times with 0 comments

truncheon   has been listed 25 times with 1 comment

repudiate   has been listed 44 times with 1 comment

onanism   has been listed 28 times with 8 comments

tincture   has been listed 52 times with 3 comments

crepuscular   has been listed 228 times with 15 comments

palimpsest   has been listed 208 times with 10 comments

whatchamacallit   has been listed 20 times with 2 comments

sebaceous   has been listed 13 times with 0 comments

grisly   has been listed 14 times with 1 comment

luftmensch   has been listed 11 times with 2 comments

crwth   has been listed 26 times with 3 comments

meretricious   has been listed 117 times with 4 comments

couscous   has been listed 32 times with 7 comments

prestidigitator   has been listed 10 times with 2 comments

encyclical   has been listed 8 times with 0 comments

adventitious   has been listed 24 times with 3 comments

conniption   has been listed 28 times with 1 comment

prosopagnosia   has been listed 24 times with 3 comments

zoetrope   has been listed 25 times with 1 comment

stentorian   has been listed 78 times with 5 comments

waif   has been listed 37 times with 0 comments

doggerel   has been listed 43 times with 0 comments

postlapsarian   has been listed 9 times with 2 comments

vivisect   has been listed 5 times with 1 comment

pessary   has been listed 7 times with 0 comments

adamantine   has been listed 51 times with 2 comments

copacetic   has been listed 85 times with 13 comments

solipsism   has been listed 151 times with 37 comments

fungible   has been listed 83 times with 3 comments

totemic   has been listed 3 times with 0 comments

Words 1 through 72 of 72
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about 1 year ago shadytrees said:

Played terpsichorean at Vivek's party.

about 1 year ago shadytrees said:

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

about 1 year ago Asativum said:

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

about 1 year ago shadytrees said:

Wikipedia has a good overview of the rules.

about 1 year ago Asativum said:

How do you play this game?

about 1 year ago shadytrees said:

Played borborygmus successfully while waiting for vans to GSK.

about 1 year ago shadytrees said:

Last day: Played selfsame and stumped Vivek.

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

about 1 year ago shadytrees said:

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

about 1 year 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.

about 1 year ago shadytrees said:

5/23: Calvin got jingoism on the bus.

about 1 year ago shadytrees said:

5/7: squamous and rugose played and won.

about 1 year ago shadytrees said:

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

about 1 year ago shadytrees said:

4/28: Shriram profferred leitmotif.

about 1 year ago shadytrees said:

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

about 1 year ago shadytrees said:

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

about 1 year ago shadytrees said:

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

about 1 year 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.

about 1 year ago shadytrees said:

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

about 1 year ago shadytrees said:

Wikipedia has a good overview of the rules.

about 1 year ago yarb said:

This game sounds like fun! How does it work?

about 1 year ago shadytrees said:

Previously: Daniel got stentorian.

about 1 year ago shadytrees said:

3/28: Vivek got doggerel thanks to Achenbach.

about 1 year ago shadytrees said:

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

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