CONTACT GAME CLUB on Clubhouse

Description

Contact requires at least three people, one person to create a word and at least two people to guess it.
The word creator thinks of a word and gives the guessers the first letter. The guessers' objective at this stage is to get the word creator to give them the second letter of the word. They do this by coming up with words that they can guess, but the creator can't.

This is best illustrated with an example.

Say the creator's word is "apple." The creator says his word starts with the letter "a." The guessers try to think of words that also start with the letter "a." One of the guessers thinks of the word "apathy" and gives the group a clue, say "This is a symptom of depression."

If the word creator can come up with a word that fits the clue, say "apathy" or "anhedonia," they say "It's not apathy" or "It's not anhedonia," and the guessers have to think of another clue.

If the word creator cannot think of a word, but one of the other guessers can, the other guesser says "Contact" and the guessers say the word together after counting down from 3. If they both say the same word, the creator has to give them the next letter. If they say different words, or if none of the other guessers knows what the clue means, then the guessers have to think of another clue.

Once you have two or more letters, the guessers can only use words that start with those letters. For instance, once the creator gives the letters "ap," the guessers can only use words like "application," "aptitude," or "apoptosis." After three or four letters it usually becomes obvious what the word is, and players can start guessing the word.

A few house rules:

The word creator's word must be a dictionary word, and it shouldn't be a word the group is unlikely to know. My favorite Contact word is "tractor" because it's a word that everyone knows, but people don't think about too quickly.
The word guessers can use any word they want, including phrases and proper nouns. They are welcome to give obscure clues that the creator probably wouldn't know, but if they do that too much it kind of spoils the game. It's best if they're clues that the creator is expected to know, but doesn't for some reason. No advanced math if you're playing with 8th graders! And no asking me about Pokemon if you've already used two Pokemon clues and have established that I know nothing about the subject.
The word creator always gets one guess before the guessers can guess the word.
Most important rule: Have fun!