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Elizabeth Beer Does this mean that repeated declarations are discounted, unless in the rare circumstance of many decs across the games, or is it saying that you get double points for the decs that are repeated, as long as it happens across the three games?

Chris Hare Maybe an example would have been a good idea.

Let's say you declare LEOTARD twice in the Omelette and once each in the other two. You score 1. Janet declares LEOTARD twice in each game. She scores 2. Wilberforce declares LEOTARD in each game and also declares TANGELO in each game. He scores 2.

I hope I've made that a bit clearer!

Fiona T so you score more by not declaring the same word twice? confused.com

Chris Hare I confess that I don't understand what it is that you don't understand, so I'll explain it again in a different way and hope that fixes the issue.

To work out your points for the round, I'll do the following:

Step 1 - Make 3 lists of your declarations, one for each game. If you declare a word more than once in a particular game, I'll list it that number of times.

Step 2 - I'll discard any words that appear on only one or only two of the lists.

Step 3 - For the first word on the first list, I'll cross out one instance of it on each list and award you a point.

Step 4 - Unless the list is empty, return the lists to Step 2. (So if a word that I gave you a point for is still in all three lists, it'll get a second point when it hits Step 3 again.)

Essentially, you can't overlap your triples.

Dave Kempshall Hi Chris - apologies for more questions on this one. Do I have it correct that you only score a point if you declared the same six+ letter word across all three games? i.e. TANGELO is played in A, B, but not C - 0 points given at all for TANGELO?

Dave Kempshall Loving the rules btw, just a little unclear on this one.

Chris Hare That's right.

Dave Kempshall Cool, that makes complete sense. I think it may just be the wording of this sentence: "For each word of 6 or more letters that you validly declare in each of Game Five A, Game Five B and Game Five C, you'll receive a point." that may be causing people to be confused that you get a point for every six+ letter word irregardless of whether they are played in all games.

Dave Kempshall So basically you would never be able to score more than 20 points in your round score here. And to gain 20 points would involve having identical lists of words on each of the three games.

Fiona T But I would score the same for validly declaring tangelo in all rounds of all games, as I would for declaring 20x3 different words. I think it was the multiple decs that confused me - it sounded like something I should be attempting to do! Think I'm there!

Chris Hare Dave: Exactly so.

That sentence was a problem every way I wrote it; maybe the first 'each' should have been an 'every' and the second 'each' should have been an 'all'.

Dave Kempshall Yes, tricky thing to communicate.

Fiona T Oh forgot the bonus on this :(

Maria Chandler Oh gosh me too Fiona :(

Fiona T haha was trying to keep it simple for Chris to mark - mebbe he'll give bonus credit for that!