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by WobbuPalooza 1134 days ago
I was delighted to see this--thanks for posting it. Games like this (and Semantle, etc.) have a surprisingly long history. The TikTok #gotitchallenge [0] shows one way to play in person, also demonstrated by the vlogbrothers [1]. But there was also a 19th C. parlor game called "What is My Thought Like?" [2] in which players had to make semantic connections between two random words or phrases, and that is basically the same game as "Le Jeu de la pensée" [3][my English translation 4], ca. 1701, which is an extended version with additional random features players have to connect to a random word

[0] https://www.tiktok.com/tag/gotitchallenge

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyx8iMKYrE8

[2] https://www.google.com/books/edition/American_Girl_s_Book/WO...

[3] https://www.google.com/books/edition/Les_jeux_d_esprit_ou_La...

[4] https://wobbupalooza.neocities.org/1701#tr_60