Post by Morgan on Apr 16, 2013 10:25:19 GMT -5
Welcome to your Second Battle. For this battle, your objective will be to create as many "layers" as possible. Your layers will stack up to form a barrier that will protect you from predators and the climate.
Creating these barriers will be similar to playing the games Scrabble and Upwords. You will use the letters I provide to to you to make different words across a board (or, in this battle, called a layer). For a layer to be complete, you must have accumulated 50 points on it. All of the words must intersect as well. Once you have finished your layer, you will go onto the next one.
For your next layer, it will be completely based on your first one. You will "stack" on letters on top of ones you already have so that every word in your original board must be changed. For example, if I had the word "train" in my first layer, I could stack a "g" on the "t" and get "grain". Every word from your original board must change to a new one, but you only have to change one letter at minimum for each one. If you have a letter is used as the crossing point for two words, and you change that letter, it will count as the change for the two words. This layer, and every other layer after it, must also accumulate to 50 points.
You don't just have to stack either! You can also add onto words in a later layer. So if you have the word "stop" in your first layer, you can add on letters to have "stopped" in your next one!
The words must be found on dictionary.com, and they cannot include spaces or hyphens. They must have their own definition page, or be a runoff of another word (for example, "fucking" instead of "fuck", "shoes" instead of "shoe", or "stupidity" instead of "stupid").
Your primary objective is to have as many layers as possible posted by the end of 24 hours. If both teams have the same amount of letters posted, then how many points you have accumulated will break the tie.
A Layer
Tile Distribution
Note 1: # of Letters Each means that every letter in that column has that number of letters. So, there are 100 As to use and 100 Es to use, etc.- not just 100 vowels in total.
Note 2: When you submit each of your layers, also post with it how many points you have made in that layer itself.
Note 3: Once you use a letter for a certain layer, you may not use it again for another one. It has been stacked upon. So if you have already used 4 Qs in any of the previous layers, you may not use another Q.
Note 4: Letters that are used as "crossing" letters have their point value count for the words that cross through them. So if "Snake" and "Blade" both cross at the A, you count the A twice.
Note 5: If you're looking for the visual concept of the challenge, google pictures of "Upwords".
