[quote name=\'hmtriplecrown\' date=\'Jul 5 2005, 12:12 PM\'][quote name=\'TonicBH\' date=\'Jul 5 2005, 11:34 AM\']We go to "P" and the password is "Pencil". Barbara said "pen" but was not hit for an illegal clue. The contestant won $5,000, and to my knowledge, no mention of the dispute was there.
I thought the rule of Password was that you could not use part of the password as a clue?[/quote]
There have been times when part of the word has been used, like sixteen for "seventeen" or Sunday for "Monday".
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Seems to me that Ludden once referred to it as the "grandmother/grandfather" rule. (Which, of course, breaks "Password Plus"' no-opposites rule.) I don't think "pen/pencil" is the same thing, so I would've buzzed it--but Robbie Sherman was a lot more lenient than Dr. Reason A. Goodwin, Dr. Caroline Duncan or me.