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Game: Ghost

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Ghost is a word-building game for two players. All you need is paper and pencil (and probably a dictionary!).

  • We pick a small word/fragment to start with.
    • Let’s use CAR
    • This fragment needs to be the beginning of at least one word, so don’t pick PLT or XGA!
  • At each turn, the player adds one letter to the end of the fragment.
  • The fragment must still be the beginning of a real word. BUT you don’t want to form a full word.
    • CAR to CARA works since there are words like “caramel” and “carapace” but “cara” isn’t actually a word.
    • CAR to CARZ doesn’t work since there are no English words that begin with “carz”.
  • The first player to finish a real word loses.
    • If I add a P to form CARP I lose, since “carp” is a real word.

When a player loses a round, they earn the next letter from the word GHOST (just like the basketball game HORSE). The first person to complete GHOST loses!

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Byrdseed.TV: Strategy Games

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