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Ghost is a word game in which players take turns adding letters to a growing word fragment, and trying not to be the one to complete an English word. The one that does, loses that round of the game.
Ghost bears some similarity to fellow word games Jotto and Cheddar Gorge.
Game play
The player whose turn it is may challenge the previous player to prove that the current fragment is actually the beginning of some word by saying "I challenge you," or simply "challenge." If the challenged player can name such a word, the challenger loses the round; otherwise the challenged player loses. In various computerized variants, the computer names words instead of the challenged player.
Bluffing is not uncommon, though it's rare for it to work in the way planned. For example, in a two-player game, suppose the fragment is "S-Y-Z-", which can only be the beginning of the word "syzygy." The next player realizes that the player on whom the word will end is a friend, and decides to try to protect him. Instead of saying Y, he extends the fragment to "S-Y-Z-O-", which is not a word but sounds as if it could be one. Player 5 should challenge, but fears player 4's word knowledge, and either guess or intentionally bluffs himself by extending the word to "S-Y-Z-O-L-." Player 6 challenges and player 5 cannot reply. Player 5, not player 4, loses the round. Bluffing rarely achieves its intended results, but it can sometimes add amusement to the game.
If any score is kept at all, the traditional method uses the letters of the word "Ghost," in the same fashion as the basketball game Horse. The loser of the first round gets a G, the loser of two rounds gets a GH, and so on. The first person to lose five rounds gets GHOST, and has thereby lost the game.
Ghost can be played by 2 or more players. No equipment is required, not even pencil and paper. Use of dictionaries is considered cheating. It can be played by players of a wide range of ages, but the game is not enjoyable to most unless all players have comparable knowledge of words.
Variants
Superghost is played by choosing either the beginning or end of the growing word fragment and adding a letter there. Xghost (also known as Superduperghost) is played by adding a letter anywhere in the growing word fragment, including between letters. These variants usually require much more effort and time to play than the conventional game, and as such are lesser-known and less popular. Xghost in particular is considered vastly more difficult to play.
A Ghost mIRC game exists as well.[1] (http://andre.facadecomputer.com/ghost)
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