 | Dave Kempshall I did forget Adam (125) in the current leader pack :) Sorry Latch |
 | Ravi Choudhary By 4+, at least 4 or more than 4? |
| Dave Kempshall Four or more / at least four. |
| Ravi Choudhary Thank you |
 | Elwin Carlos Lasted one round longer this time before forgetting which letter to start with this time! |
| Elwin Carlos Declared, stables, chickened out on sailboat, and then mistakenly thought I should start my next round with a t instead of s. 🤦🏽‍♂️ |
 | Maria Chandler What happens if my word ends in X - can I start the next round with something else than X? |
| Maria Chandler I hope it's OK I have paused my game until I know the answer :) |
 | Trevor Potts I'm assuming if someone (like me, hypothetically) was stupid enough to declare an invalid word, perhaps as early as in the first few rounds (imagine!) then that would end the string and the rest of the game wouldn't score? |
 | Fiona T I assumed that was the case Trevor! And Maria, I think you'd need to start with X - Xenon might be your friend! |
 | Tom Cappleman If you look at prefix search here, it lists all 99 words starting with X. Only a few that have any real chance of coming up, but easy enough to learn them: https://www.apterous.org/lexplorer.php?word=x |
| Dave Kempshall Hi Maria - I'm afraid you have to go with an X word, sorry there is no skipping in this round as it's part of the strategy to try and find words ending in letters that are commonly used to start words. |
| Dave Kempshall That's right Trevor, if you delcare an invalid word, your scoring for the game ends. |
| Trevor Potts Thought so, thanks! I may as well blob the rest of my game then. What a silly sausage I am |
| Dave Kempshall UL Travor. Appreciate the in game message though ;) |
| Maria Chandler Thanks a lot for the replies. Silly me I didn’t think about it until too late then couldn’t find anything else. Will finish my game asap. |
| Ravi Choudhary Messed it up on the very first letters round - is there any point in carrying on? |
| Dave Kempshall If you scored zero, then technically you don't need to carry on. Tidier for the tournament if you do finish though as I can't see a record of your game until it's finished. |
| Ravi Choudhary So play on anyway? And if I do, do I restart at the end of the wrong word I give, or start afresh? |
| Dave Kempshall It doesn't really matter for the rest of the game, as you won't score any points. It just helps my admin of the tournament if you complete the game, but don't worry about that if you don't want to. |
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| Colin Thompson I helped your admin with my game too :) |
| Dave Kempshall Guys - to manage my schedule and also to make the leaderboard a bit easier to judge in terms of who's leading, I've decided to spread this one out over the whole of November. I'll get the round live periodically with the last round going live after all 6 previous rounds have been completed. |
 | Richard Barnett This is fun. Over two rounds I prob have worst score for a player who has understood and not fallen foul of the rules |
| Dave Kempshall You have a better score than the person who understands the rules... and wrote the rules, Richard :) |
| Andy SC @Dave - That's a good way of saying "I'm not fixing this in my favour" :) |
Tourney round: Alphabetti Spaghetti 2024: Round 2: Start At The End
Notes from the organizer: You can’t win Alphabetti Spaghetti in the first round, but you can certainly make winning it an awful lot tougher and quite a few people bombed out of Round 1 early (myself included). Don’t give up hope though, you never know what might happen!
At the time of writing, the current leaders are, Matthew B (136), Florence (127) & Mike L (121), but there are still plenty yet to play.
Full leaderboard can be found here: Â https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rrnBp8HEPf_j9e5d0gNVPsHP4iI324_b/edit?gid=251771468#gid=251771468&range=A1:J1
In Round 2 (Touchdown LA again) players must again link their words from round-to-round, this time by ensuring each word they declare begins with the last letter from their declaration in the previous round.

As soon as you fail to make the link (or declare an invalid word), your scoring ends. Again, the slight modification here is only words of 4+ letters will keep your game going.
The Q and X come into play again with anyone using either anywhere in a word in their game (whilst scoring is still active) getting 5 bonus points for each (only 2 x 5 points available for the first use of each, you don’t score more bonus points the more you use them).
An example game would be:

RELATION

NEVER

RIGHT

TOTALLY

YACHT

TORQUE (5 point bonus)

EXTRA (5 point bonus)

ACTUAL

LOVING

GAOLER

RHYME

EDITOR

TAP (game ends as word doesn’t begin with R)
Game score: 80 (70 + 10 Q & X bonus points)
Good luck!
Ran from: 10 – 17 November 2024. Format: Touchdown Letters Attack. Matches: One-off. Approved.
Fixtures: 43. Completed: 43.
Results and fixtures
Key. Green: winner. Red: loser.
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