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I'll start:

FourLegged

(No way I'm finding a consonym for THAT!)

koala

Uses consonants k and l

Loki

LOOK

Wait, consonym keeps the consonant order, right?
This message was last edited by the GM at 02:31, Thu 26 Feb 2009.

We aren't alternating?

Nope.  It says in order.  So...what word are we on now? o.O

koala

euh...

keel!

Kill

(can we add consonants?)

Nevermind, went and re-read the rules.

Kool
This message was last edited by the player at 03:38, Thu 26 Feb 2009.

kilo

gram

We need clarification of the rules of this game.

You can use a synonym if you get stuck to keep things moving...

gram isn't exactly a synonym, but I feel it counts as the full word is kilogram

Ah, OK.

groom

grammar (i know, you're not supposed to add, but this was to good to be true!)

(going back to "grm")

grim

grimmer


are we swapping to vowelnyms (...?) on every other..?

(I didn't think so, but I suppose we could.  I think there should only be two choices: Consnym and then either Synonym or "Vowelnym".  I like the Synonym option better because it's more likely to vary the word length.)
This message was last edited by the GM at 18:58, Thu 26 Feb 2009.

( I'll bounce to a synonym that should move things along..)

dire

timed

timid

tamed

teamed

meated (what happens when you hit someone with a steak)

mated

boned

In reply to praguepride (msg #25):

"Meated" is not a consonym of "teamed".  It has the same three consonants, but changes the order.

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boned  ->  band

bend


( I think he was doing the vowelonym or something. )

bind

beaned

bond

baned

bained

blond

blond is neither a consonym or a synonym

boned

bound

sorry this game was new to me I only cycled through the rules. now I have read it carefully. gametime.

tied

knitted

spied

(VOWELNYM!)

spade

speed

seeped

spud

suped

soaped

speedo

can it be with two words? (sea pad)

Tereno

(as in Gran Tereno, that movie)

Train

torn

Ripped
This message was last edited by the player at 18:52, Mon 23 Mar 2009.

Rapped

Bane

Boon

Bean

ebon

bone

bien

ban

bin

beanie

hat

haute

hut

heat

hate

hot

warm

worm

wurm

wyrm

drake

droke

drek

peck

vowel.

pack

pick

choose

chase

fae

crate

I don't think "vowelnyms" should be allowed.

court

why not?  if we dont' have SOME way of going to a completely different set of words, then we start looping.

only so many words have ONLY the consonants c, r, and t in that order.

cart

then we go with a synonym?

create

I think between consonyms and synonyms we should be fine--but this is the testing phase.

court

I just did court.  see what I mean?  anyway:

SOUP!!!

sap

(PIA, that's why we have SYNONYMS: so we don't get stuck.)

soap

sip

drink

(oh, ok)

drunk

wasted

skeletal (used a thesaurus)

bone

boon

been

bin

trash

garbage

waste

poop

pipe

pope

peep

pop

soda

seed

sad

said

sold

L is a consonant right? x.x

yes.  my bad.

soda

Sud

bubble

soapy =p

lather

mmmhh....

leather

loather

(as in one who loathes)

lither

agile

gills?

too many consonatns.  you have to ONLY use the ones that were used in the previous word.  I do think its a bit limiting, but I'm not sure what we could do.

you COULD however, have said

gil

since the ONLY consonants in it are g and l, in that order.

hmm, then I give up, you will all never see me in this thread again, until those rules get revamped; that's right, I am completely unwilling to change, you can call it stubborn, I call it being blissfully unaware of the harsh reality that I am getting older.

goal

gale

I have a few ideas...

I'll write em down and put them in suggestions.

so, how to the consonants change, if we can't add a consonant or remove one, then eventually the game will just stagnate?

guile

thats what synonyms are for.

you can use a synonym instead of a consonym

oic. I didn't catch that, thanks.

ruse

rose

rise

arise

ascend

second

sconed?  (Threw a scone at someone?)

mock

I'm leaving off the past tense, since it just leads to more work.

muck

mack

its a thing for kiss, right?

(or mack 10's)

mace

(you missed the k)

mice

mac

mic

its short for microphone!

I swear!

microphone

macrophone

I have no clue what that is.

shoutbox

OK, I'm thinking its time to propose some rule changes or something.

I like the idea behind the game, but there are just fundamental problems with only allowing consonyms and synonyms.

with consonyms for example, there are only so many words that have the letters m,c,r,p,h,n.  And when we start using synonyms, it becomes a slew of synonyms in an attempt to find one with a good set of consonants.

I really do think that allowing vowelnyms would give us more freedom here, since i,o,o,e is bound to show up in more words than just microphone.

I second that.

Let's try without synonyms, but with "vowelonyms", then.

acute

cat

(aren't we going with the vowelnyms from now on???)

hat

hate

(vowelnyms or consonyms, but no more synonyms)

I see

hades (is that correct?)

hides (yes that was right)

Time

rides

raids

raid

(try not to add an extra S on the end.  It just makes it harder)

laid ;D

lead

leap

mead

meat

eat

feat

foot

toot

beep

weep

keep

sweep

leap

jump

bump

lump

bunn "consonyms"

ban

outlaw - Synonym

Bandit - synonym

highwayman -synonym

crook-- synonym

---consonym words would have crk words with varying vowels. e_e

creak - consonym

croak- consonym

die - synonym

do- consonym

complete - synonym

entire - synonym

elite - consonym

elite is not a consonym of entire.

neater, would be a consonym of entire.

nitrous - consonym

nitrous

enters - consonym

(Sorry I reused the vowels in order for some reason.)

rents

bump

rants

strain

stern

In reply to praguepride (msg # 197):

I actually don't think this was a valid consonym or synonym. I can see nowhere in the rules where it says you can flip the consonants if you feel like it. :P

So, going back to rants,


raves - synonym

gabble

(synonym for 'rave')

gobble

devour

inhale

nihil

tiki

Statue

estate

Lands

Lends

impart

TINA (Truth In Negotiations Act)

Treaty
(Tell me if I did this wrong please)

In reply to LuLu Prayer (msg # 212):

You need to connect to the previous word in one of three ways:
1. consonym (use all the consonants in the same order to make a new word)
2. consonym-with-vowels (use all the vowels in the same order to make a new word)
3. synonym (post an entirely new word that is a synonym to the current one)

As far as I can tell, "treaty" has no ties to "TINA".

You could have done:
tone
final
toon
(and so on)

Let's say the current word is:

FINAL

(i've been playing safe with synonyms only this whole time...   easier to double check those on google)

closing

Boing

Bong
[Thank you Yoss, as far as TINA tying to Treaty: I have no idea, I was half asleep and I used google]

Strike

[I just keep using a thesaurus, this is actually not that easy for me without it...]

Stork

birth

life

mice (i and e)

rodents

mole (o and e)

tole

Toil

Foil

So the last one kept the vowels, so I have to keep the consonants, right?

fuel

foul

foal

flue

vent

Vente

event

incident

Occurrence

Opulence (Consonym with Vowels OUEE)

planchette (consonants plnc)

Board (synonym)