Half a Word Game

Half a Word Game is another appropriately Halfbaked creation from the folks who frequent the Halfbakery. We used to call it: "No, no, you mean..."

Here's an excerpt from the author's illustration:

An example: P1: The word is "mother."

P2: That's when you speak in a low voice.

P1: No, that's "mutter."

P2: You mean like the ultimate extreme.

P1: No, that's "utter."

P2: Like the part of the cow from which you get milk.

P1: No, that's "udder."

P2: The opposite of "lower."

P1: No, that's "upper."

P2: It's getting late, and I'm hungry.

P1: You're talking about "supper."

We (the New Games crowd) played it like this:

P1: To mother is to speak in a low voice.

P2: No, no, you mean "mutter." Mutter is the ultimate extreme.

P1. No, no, you mean "utter." An utter is something you find on a cow.

We tended to get sillier as the game went along, improvising on the "no, no you mean" - "au contraire, mon frere," or "you are, in fact, incorrect in your interpretation of my definition. Perhaps you mis-heard. Perhaps you are mocking me....

Oddly enough, simply because the game is endless and there's no score, the author of the so-called "Half a word game" considers it incomplete. O, what mortals we fools be.