December 21, 2004

Exquisite George: I am again clever and again invented a new game.

It's a sort of "Googlewhack Pong"-- The first player chooses a word. The second player tries to find a word which, combined with the first, will produce the fewest hits possible on a google search. Then the first player gets a change to add a third word, further narrowing the google results. If at any point, a player gets stuck (is unable to find an additional search term that limits the number of google results) then the other player gets the number of google results from his last turn added to his score. If play achieves a unique result, known as a googlewhack, that player scores one point. (Bonus points could also be allocated for quicker googlewhacks-- a two-term search could, say, score higher than a five-term search). Make sense? Mellifluous?

posted by little nemo 20 years ago
  • I'll start, in the obligatory fashion: monkey
  • Oh. . . I suppose it doesn't need to be limited to two players. You guys are smart and I'm sure can see how it would work with multiple players. . .
  • monkey zlkj
  • impermeable monkey
  • curses.
  • impermeable monkey brouhaha (as with googlewhacking, search terms must be words, Richer.)
  • tempestuous impermeable monkey brouhaha (I feel like maybe finding 'tempestuous' on one of the 'impermeable monkey brouhaha' sites was cheating =/)
  • sorry, wo mu si, but all those hits are "word list" kinda sites--forbidden in googlewhacking, and in this game too. try again. . .
  • impermeable monkey hairline brouhaha. (by the way, what the heck are those wordlist sites for, anyhow?)
  • ZLKJ IS A WORD.
  • Your search -- candlewicked lobster -- did not match any results.
  • Ach, think I did that wrong. Sorry. googlewicked monkey
  • beeswacky--you must have meant googlewacked monkey, right? cause, even thought it's spelled "wrong," it yields a unique result, scoring you one banana. wo mu si--I don't know. Some of them are dictionaries. Some perhaps useful to crackers. I've always felt there must be some weird bot function to some of them. Occasionally I'll get spam which contains a string of random words at the bottom like "impermeable monkey hairline brouhaha"--massive respect to anyone who can untangle these mysteries. Richer--what does "zlkj" mean, anyway (or what does it signify, for the post-structuralist crowd)?
  • this all sounds a lot like 'galactic pot-healer' by phillip k dick, btw...
  • I'd have to kill you if I told you.
  • sexyrobot-- what's that?