 | Sean D not entirely clear in the rules if a palidrome of 1 or 3 letters counts for the bonus |
 | Ben Bazzard Sean: "a word of fewer than 4 letters long will end your game". So palindromes have to be 5,7 or 9 letters long. |
 | Fiona T oh balls, missed that! :D |
| Sean D ah balls, the 4 letter thing just cost me a record score here. Read A:LL the rules, lol |
 | Dave Kempshall Sorry guys :( |
 | David Holmes Do you crash out if you declare an invalid word or word that doesn't follow the rules? |
| Dave Kempshall Yes David, doing either ends your game. |
| David Holmes Gosh that was hard |
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 | Dan Southwell Curse you Prune and your sh1te picks! |
| Sarah Binns Loooool out first round |
 | Ian Volante Bugger. |
 | Mark Jeary-Fairbairn I'm not upset about that... |
| Mark Jeary-Fairbairn RAGING! |
Tourney round: Alphabetti Spaghetti 2025: Round 4: Alternate Reality
Notes from the organizer: Miriam has piled the pressure on Adam and Stu in round 3 after another great performance. At the time of writing both of our previous leaders are yet to respond.
Tom C has started to slowly push himself back into the fold and, with a high quality leaderboard, the pressure on our leaders is beginning to ramp up.
Full leaderboard - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YSYOdmZKGElwGkMRG89M4PBvmvH6vu-9/edit?gid=1911279472#gid=1911279472&range=A1:M1
For the first time this year we move away from Touch and onto a Goat Attack. Round 4 is all about alternating vowels and consonants in your words.
Every word you declare should follow a sequence of VCVC… or CVCV… Declaring a word that doesn’t follow this format, declaring an invalid word, no word at all or a word of fewer than 4 letters long will end your game scoring.
A 5 point bonus is on offer for anyone successfully declaring exactly 10 valid and qualifying words beginning with a vowel, and 10 with a consonant.
A second 5 point bonus is on offer for anyone declaring a valid palindrome following the vowel / consonant sequence (which would naturally be of 5, 7 or 9 or letters) whilst scoring is still active.
Our all-time record holder for Alternate Reality is Dave Robjohns with a score of 133.
Here’s an example game:
1. UNIT
2. EMIT
3. FAVELA
4. GAMETE
5. LOGO
6. TOTAL
7. RELATIVE
8. RADAR (5 point palindrome bonus)
9. BASIC
10. LEVEL (No bonus for palindrome as already gained for RADAR)
11. IRIS
12. ORAL
13. OVER
14. HOBO
15. DEFINED
16. COVER
17. OPEN
18. ORES
19. IVES
20. ANAL
Game score: 105 (95 + 5 point palindrome & 5 point 10 x starting with vowel / consonant bonus)
Ran from: 10 – 30 November 2025. Format: Goat Attack. Matches: One-off. Approved.
Fixtures: 49. Completed: 48.
Results and fixtures
Key. Green: winner. Red: loser. Grey: tie. (Stripes: provisional, match in progress.)
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