Fountain of Words
In this Death Match, win more word-based challenges than your opponent.
| Designer(s): Zero | Match Type: DM (for 2 players) |
| Featured in: The Genius: Tempo Up | |
This game is a non-live DeathMatch.
This DeathMatch will have the players partaking in 7 different mini challenges.
The player who wins 4/7 of the challenges will win the DeathMatch.
The challenges will test your vocabulary, quick thinking, logical reasoning, and staying calm under pressure.
The rules for challenges 1, 3, 5, and 7 will be revealed now.
The rules for challenges 2, 4, and 6 will be revealed just before you play the challenge.
Challenges should be played in order.
You must start the challenge within 5 minutes of the rules command for that challenge.
I will reveal the details for starting these challenges after the bot is set up.
You do not need to complete all challenges in 1 go, but stopping mid challenge will result in forfeiting that challenge.
You may not use any form of pre-made notes, a spell checker or the internet for the duration of the DM's challenges.
You may use a stopwatch to help keep track of round timings, and you may use pen and paper to write notes during the challenges.
You may not communicate with other players during the challenges.
Challenge 1: Word Dictionary
This challenge has 5 rounds.
You will be given a prompt.
You must list as many different words as you can that fit the prompt within 2 minutes.
There is no penalty the first time you submit an invalid word in a round.
For every following invalid word you will lose 1 count from your total valid responses.
The player that writes the most valid response wins that round.
If this is a tie, the player that wrote less invalid responses in total wins this round.
If this is a tie, the DMO wins that round.
The player that wins more rounds wins this challenge.
Example prompt: Name 3 letter words that are of the form "Vowel, Consonant, Consonant"
For the purposes of this DM, Y is not considered a Vowel.
Challenge 2: Word A-Z
This challenge has 5 rounds.
You will be given a category.
You must list as many different words, one for each letter of the alphabet, as you can that fit the category within 2 minutes.
I will count the word you submit for each letter to be the last word you typed in the 2 minutes.
The player that writes the most valid response wins that round.
If this is a tie, neither player wins the round.
The player that wins more rounds wins this challenge.
If this is a tie, the DMO wins this challenge.
Example category: Fruit and Vegetables
Apple, Banana, Carrot etc
Challenge 3: Word Search
You will be presented with a Word Search, and a theme.
You must find all the words in the word search that match the theme.
No words will share letters with each other.
Words will only be in the following directions: 🡢 🡣 🡥 🡧 🡦 (other format L to R, U to D, BL to TR, TR to BL, TL to BR)
All remaining letters not part of theme words, when combined in reading order, will form a word.
The fastest player to correctly guess this word wins this challenge.
Challenge 4: Word Riddles
This challenge has 5 rounds.
You will be given a riddle with a single word answer.
Riddles are of the form "What am I?"
The player that writes the correct answer first wins that round.
The player that wins more rounds wins this challenge.
Challenge 5: Word Scramble
This challenge has 5 rounds.
You will be presented with a grid with n rows, and m columns.
You must discover m words of length n from the grid.
Each word contains exactly 1 letter from each row.
All words use different letters from each row, so every letter is used exactly once.
The first letter of each word will come from the first (top) row,
The second letter of each word will come from the second row,
this repeats for every letter in the grid.
The faster player in each round wins that round.
The player that wins more rounds wins this challenge.
Example grid:
Challenge 6: Word Square
This challenge has 5 rounds.
You will be grid of 4 overlapping lines.
The corners (light grey) will have letters in them.
At the bottom of the grid will be 8 other letters.
You must use each of these letters exactly once to make 4 words in the grid.
The player that writes the correct 4 words first wins that round.
The player that wins more rounds wins this challenge.
Challenge 7: Word Cipher
You will be given a passage of text.
This passage will contain a series of spelling errors.
These errors are either missing letters, or have incorrect letters.
No word has more than 1 error.
You will need to work out what the correct letter should be in each misspelt word.
If you put these letters together in order they were in the passage of text you will get a question.
The first player to correctly answer the question wins this challenge.
Example Errors: Helq, lots go beet the hallenge and roach the goal!
Tags
Host Info (The game involves additional information that only the hosts know and prepare in advance.)
Non-live DM (The game is a Death Match that is designed to be able to be played non-live.)
Puzzle (The game tests the players' abilities to solve puzzles.)
Words (The game tests the players' linguistic abilities.)