Word Play Contest
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
Myth-Weavers is having a contest for in-game word play!
Coin words, craft phrases, and put your mind and hands to the test!
Myth-Weavers is having a contest for in-game word play!
Coin words, craft phrases, and put your mind and hands to the test!
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!" He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought— So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. And as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! | One, two! One, two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. "And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!" He chortled in his joy. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. |
'It seems very pretty ... but it's rather hard to understand! ... Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don't exactly know what they are!' - Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
Word play can mean all sorts of things, and we are looking for all sorts of things! The styles of wordsmithing applicable to the contest are very open. We are particularly encouraging creation of new words (Neologisms, Nonce Words, Sniglets, portmanteaux), interesting repurposing of existing words, new turns of phrase as The Bard might have done, and a bit of madness, in the style of Carroll.
Example authors are: Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), William Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing), James Joyce (Finnegan's Wake)
How it works
You can submit posts to the Word Play Contest using the 'Submit for Contest' link on any post that is in a Game, or in the Games & Ads, Game Planning, or Archive forums! Once the submission period is over, we'll round up all the submissions, and prepare for community voting. The winner will be selected via Instant Runoff Voting by the Myth-Weavers community!
Schedule
Sept 14 - Sept 26: Submission period
Sept 28 - Sept 30: Community Voting
Oct 1: Winner Announced
The Rules
Posts must follow site content rules
Duh and or hello.
The primary language for a post must be English.
Apologies to our non-english-speaking members, but it is by far the most commonly used language on the boards.
Posts must be in-character / in-game to be valid.
Sorry, no OOC, game descriptions, setting information, etc.
One post per author
Because anyone can nominate anyone else, we are expecting we might get multiple posts authored by a single user. We'll ask at the end of the submissions for you to pick your favorite.
Winners must provide a mailing address
To receive physical prizes, I've gotta have somewhere to send them to
Prizes include
Myth-Weavers Swag
Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass
The famous poem from the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in which he created nonsensical words from word combinations.
Rich Hall's Sniglets
A collection of words that should be in the dictionary, but aren't
1-Year Community Supporter Subscription
Removes google ads, increases game threadgroup abilities, and grants early access to the new Maps tool for virtual tabletop!
See the Community Supporter subscription page for more details.
Please post here if you have any questions!
Have fun!