How to play

  1. Take turns adding a letter to the end of the word. Slide the planchette to a letter and let go.
  2. Don’t finish a word. Spell a real word of four letters or more and you lose the round. CAT doesn’t count.
  3. Bluff if you like. You don’t need a word in mind, as long as nobody calls you on it.
  4. Challenge if you don’t think any word starts with the letters so far. The player before you has to name one. If they can, you lose the round. If they can’t, they do.
  5. Every round you lose earns a letter of GHOST, and you start the next one. Spell GHOST and you’re out. The last one left wins.

Everyday words end a round. When you name a word after a challenge, anything in the 180,000-word list counts, and you can count one it doesn’t know if you’re sure.