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cyberjoek:
ok, my first attempt at a format, here we go.
Buzzword
Three teams of two compete, the two players already know eachother some how.  The game starts with one member of each team is designated the giver for round one, they face upstage, looking at a board with the clue word and nine buzzwords (that have no relation to the puzzle).  Their partner (the recever) is facing in such a way that they can't see the clue board.  The giver is to give a complete sentance clue that includes exactly one of the buzzwords.  You can't just tack the buzzword on the end of the sentance, it's got to be a gramaticly correct sentance.  Once a buzzword has been used it can't be used again.  When someone gets the clueword they get the clueword plus all the buzzwords left put into their bank.  Every two cluewords the players switch places, who ever has the most words in their bank when time runs out wins.   The winning team has 3:00 to convey as many cluewords as possible to their teammates, the buzzwords are the words they earned in the main game.  For each clueword that is gotten in the three miniutes the team earns a prize or an amount of money, depending on who was airing the show.  The big prize would be on 10 cluewords (yes, that is a long time but I think to give anyone a reasonable shot at the grand prize they'll need the thinking time).
Well that's it, it's open season on this format.
-Joe Kavanagh

BrandonFG:
[quote name=\'cyberjoek\' date=\'Jul 13 2003, 03:11 PM\'] ok, my first attempt at a format, here we go.
Buzzword
Three teams of two compete, the two players already know eachother some how.  The game starts with one member of each team is designated the giver for round one, they face upstage, looking at a board with the clue word and nine buzzwords (that have no relation to the puzzle).  Their partner (the recever) is facing in such a way that they can't see the clue board.  The giver is to give a complete sentance clue that includes exactly one of the buzzwords.  You can't just tack the buzzword on the end of the sentance, it's got to be a gramaticly correct sentance.  Once a buzzword has been used it can't be used again.  When someone gets the clueword they get the clueword plus all the buzzwords left put into their bank.  Every two cluewords the players switch places, who ever has the most words in their bank when time runs out wins.   The winning team has 3:00 to convey as many cluewords as possible to their teammates, the buzzwords are the words they earned in the main game.  For each clueword that is gotten in the three miniutes the team earns a prize or an amount of money, depending on who was airing the show.  The big prize would be on 10 cluewords (yes, that is a long time but I think to give anyone a reasonable shot at the grand prize they'll need the thinking time).
Well that's it, it's open season on this format.
-Joe Kavanagh [/quote]
 It took me 3 or 4 times before I finally understood the rules, and I'm still kinda confused. Not a good sign.

I'm seeing a lot of holes in this format. You have the 9 buzzwords, but a clueword that has nothing to do with them? I'm lost...either that or illiterate.

It seems like it has potential, but you're going to lose viewers because a) they're gonna be confused, b) there's too much going on, and c) it's going to wear thin very quickly.

cyberjoek:
Each clue has to have a buzzword, sorry if I made that unclear, I'm known for leaving out bits of sentances that I mean to put in.  It makes much more sense if you see it played (I've tried it with a couple of friends), I'll go back through and see if I can make it easyer to understand
-Joe Kavanagh
OK, time for me to make this much more clear

Each round starts with 9 buzzwords and a clue word being shown to the givers and the audence
The givers take turns giving gramaticly correct complete sentances as clues to the \"clueword\", each clue must contain one of the nine buzzwords, once a buzzword is used it can't be used again.
When the clueword is guessed any buzzwords left plus the clueword goes into the winning team's bank
The team with the most words in their bank when time runs out wins the game and advances into the bonus round
The winning team plays the buzzword bonus, they try and convey as many words as possible in 3:00, the buzzwords for this round are the words they won in the main game.
The target number for a big prize would be 10 words.

Hope this clears it up,
Joe Kavanagh

clemon79:
[quote name=\'cyberjoek\' date=\'Jul 13 2003, 01:11 PM\'] You can't just tack the buzzword on the end of the sentance, it's got to be a gramaticly correct sentance.


  Once a buzzword has been used it can't be used again.  When someone gets the clueword they get the clueword plus all the buzzwords left put into their bank.  Every two cluewords the players switch places, who ever has the most words in their bank when time runs out wins.   The winning team has 3:00 to convey as many cluewords as possible to their teammates, the buzzwords are the words they earned in the main game.  For each clueword that is gotten in the three miniutes the team earns a prize or an amount of money, depending on who was airing the show.  The big prize would be on 10 cluewords (yes, that is a long time but I think to give anyone a reasonable shot at the grand prize they'll need the thinking time).
Well that's it, it's open season on this format.
-Joe Kavanagh [/quote]
 Thank god spelling doesn't count.

Why switch every two? Why not each one?

Here's a hint: \"The clue is \" is a gramatically correct sentence. Which means what you have here is a particularly boring form of Password with no creativity required on the part of the cluegivers.

Pass.

Matt Ottinger:

--- Quote ---gramaticly correct complete sentances
--- End quote ---
Joe, let me tell you.  NOT the best way to pitch a word game.

 
Two words:  Spel chek

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