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This word-game will entertain 4-8 people for up to 30 minutes.
1. Take turns, in order, to say a letter, which begins to spell a word.
2. If you complete a word of 4 or more letters, you lose a point, and the round starts again with the next player.
3. If anyone has more points than everyone else, they win.
If the letters start:
player 1) 'b'
player 2) 'l'
player 3) 'a'
player 4) 'm'
player 5) 'e'
...then whoever said 'e' has lost a point. They might have been thinking of going for 'blameworthy', but 'blame' is a word of more than 3 letters, so the point is lost, and the round is over.
If you get a series of letters which cannot make a word, you can challenge the person before you.
player 1) 'b'
player 2) 'l'
player 3) 'a'
player 4) 't'
player 5) 'h'
At this point, player 6 might say 'challenge', so player 5 has to think of a word which starts 'b, l, a, t, h'.
If player 5 is stumped, they lose a point.
Otherwise, player 6 loses a point.