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clemon79

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« Reply #15 on: August 07, 2007, 01:04:57 PM »
[quote name=\'William_S.\' post=\'159838\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 12:59 AM\']
/I think I said that saying right.
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Not really. Though you did get your point across. (Which I don't agree with...yes, Taboo cards have five words connected with a common theme on them. That does not make them good P+ puzzles. Further, many of them have PHRASES on them instead of words, which makes them utterly ILLEGAL P+ puzzles.)
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« Reply #16 on: August 07, 2007, 01:38:35 PM »
[quote name=\'Bob Zager\' post=\'159848\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 11:33 AM\']
A few years back, a game called "Talkin' Tango" was released, which, like "Go," you and your partner had to construct a sentence/question to get somebody to say the words.

I don't own the game, nor do I know if it's still being marketed, but here is what it looks like:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/5494
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Sadly, it's out of print.  And I hardly ever see it on eBay, even.
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« Reply #17 on: August 07, 2007, 01:41:01 PM »
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'159857\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 01:04 PM\']
[quote name=\'William_S.\' post=\'159838\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 12:59 AM\']
/I think I said that saying right.
[/quote]
Not really. Though you did get your point across. (Which I don't agree with...yes, Taboo cards have five words connected with a common theme on them. That does not make them good P+ puzzles. Further, many of them have PHRASES on them instead of words, which makes them utterly ILLEGAL P+ puzzles.)
[/quote]

Illegal by the book, but usable if everybody agrees that phrases are permissible.  I don't have a Taboo set handy; I wonder how it'd work.
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« Reply #18 on: August 07, 2007, 01:43:56 PM »
http://www.patchproducts.com/store/viewIte...p?idProduct=569

Patch put it back out as a travel-type game called Back and Forth. Here's the link.
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« Reply #19 on: August 07, 2007, 01:48:20 PM »
[quote name=\'Clay Zambo\' post=\'159862\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 10:41 AM\']
Illegal by the book, but usable if everybody agrees that phrases are permissible.  I don't have a Taboo set handy; I wonder how it'd work.
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I suppose, but I don't like the slippery slope that sets up.

"The Password is always a SINGLE word, not hyphenated and NOT a proper noun."

And so it should be, dammit. :)
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« Reply #20 on: August 07, 2007, 02:54:55 PM »
[quote name=\'The Ol' Guy\' post=\'159864\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 01:43 PM\']
http://www.patchproducts.com/store/viewIte...p?idProduct=569

Patch put it back out as a travel-type game called Back and Forth. Here's the link.
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What a bargain!

You're the man!  Thanks!
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« Reply #21 on: August 07, 2007, 02:56:42 PM »
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'159865\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 01:48 PM\']
[quote name=\'Clay Zambo\' post=\'159862\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 10:41 AM\']
Illegal by the book, but usable if everybody agrees that phrases are permissible.  I don't have a Taboo set handy; I wonder how it'd work.
[/quote]
I suppose, but I don't like the slippery slope that sets up.

"The Password is always a SINGLE word, not hyphenated and NOT a proper noun."

And so it should be, dammit. :)
[/quote]

Anybody give that note to the writers of Password Puzzles?

I'm not saying I disagree, I'm just sayin'--that sloppy slope has been long slipped.
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« Reply #22 on: August 07, 2007, 03:00:53 PM »
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 10:48 AM\']
I suppose, but I don't like the slippery slope that sets up.

"The Password is always a SINGLE word, not hyphenated and NOT a proper noun."

And so it should be, dammit. :) [/quote]
Yes. Please tell that to the brilliant folks who thought "New York", "San Francisco", and "ice cream" should be up on the board.

EDIT: See what happens when I get distracted? I get beaten to the punch...
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« Reply #23 on: August 07, 2007, 03:30:47 PM »
I even recall a celeb (mildly) complaining about it to Allen Ludden--his response was pretty blase.
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« Reply #24 on: August 07, 2007, 04:25:52 PM »
[quote name=\'Steve McClellan\' post=\'159872\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 12:00 PM\']
Yes. Please tell that to the brilliant folks who thought "New York", "San Francisco", and "ice cream" should be up on the board.
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I completely agree. Doesn't mean it's a tradition that should be upheld. :)
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« Reply #25 on: August 07, 2007, 06:51:34 PM »
[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' post=\'159875\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 03:30 PM\']
I even recall a celeb (mildly) complaining about it to Allen Ludden--his response was pretty blase.[/quote]
Actually, I remember early in the run, a celebrity asked about the looser rulings and Ludden, with barely hidden contempt in his voice, said "That's the way we do things now."
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« Reply #26 on: August 07, 2007, 10:04:49 PM »
[quote name='clemon79' date='Aug 7 2007, 10:04 AM' post='159857']
[quote name='William_S.' post='159838' date='Aug 7 2007, 12:59 AM']
/I think I said that saying right.
[/quote]
Not really. Though you did get your point across. (Which I don't agree with...yes, Taboo cards have five words connected with a common theme on them. That does not make them good P+ puzzles. Further, many of them have PHRASES on them instead of words, which makes them utterly ILLEGAL P+ puzzles.)
[/quote]Not like we play it all that much on Friday nights, but I thought it was very dirty pool that the five Taboo items could be phrases rather than words. It seems far too easy to constrict the clues that way.

(But then, that's why we have Password, Paired Up and Tie One On. </vin scully>


[quote name='Clay Zambo' date='Aug 7 2007, 10:38 AM' post='159860']
I don't own the game, nor do I know if it's still being marketed, but here is what it looks like:http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/5494
[/quote]Sadly, it's out of print.  And I hardly ever see it on eBay, even.
[/quote]For what it's worth, I think it's a poor substitute for the real thing. To play Go, you need two things: a stack of words and a clock.

Combining those two things into one program is one in a long line of programming projects I have on the far burner. But if you really want to, there are stacks of board games at the Goodwill that would help you out.
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« Reply #27 on: August 08, 2007, 04:56:32 PM »
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'159896\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 05:51 PM\']
[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' post=\'159875\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 03:30 PM\']
I even recall a celeb (mildly) complaining about it to Allen Ludden--his response was pretty blase.[/quote]
Actually, I remember early in the run, a celebrity asked about the looser rulings and Ludden, with barely hidden contempt in his voice, said "That's the way we do things now."
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And when the first two-word clue was put on the board, I remember Ludden saying that place names of more than one word were now passwords (not to mention all proper names and hyphenated words).

I would assume that when developing "Password Plus," everyone responsible realized early on that doing puzzles without proper names would be often impossible.  (Knowing that someone around here would know for sure.)
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« Reply #28 on: August 08, 2007, 07:16:52 PM »
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'159896\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 06:51 PM\']
[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' post=\'159875\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 03:30 PM\']
I even recall a celeb (mildly) complaining about it to Allen Ludden--his response was pretty blase.[/quote]
Actually, I remember early in the run, a celebrity asked about the looser rulings and Ludden, with barely hidden contempt in his voice, said "That's the way we do things now."
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I'll guess Tony Randall.
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« Reply #29 on: August 09, 2007, 09:12:45 PM »
I will now return, and realize that my recall is awfully fuzzy. Maybe it was later in the run.
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