Final call for Scrambled Words

[Cameron Browne <browne@research.canon.com.au>]

Hi,

This is the final call for entries in the Scrambled Words competition. The 
goal is to write a short story using words from any Scramble game.

Judging will take place sometime over the next month between soccer 
matches, timed carefully so as to not overshadow the culmination of that 
minor sporting event in Japan and South Korea.

Don't feel embarrassed about submitting imperfect work, it's actually quite 
a difficult competition. Winning entries won't be published unless authors 
indicate that they're happy to do so.

Here are the rules again:

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The Scrambled Words Tournament

Rules:

1. Participants must submit a sentence or paragraph containing every word 
played by any player during any game of Scramble.

2. The most concise, coherent and amusing entry will win.

3. The game must have been completed to the last move, not forfeited.

4. The words may be used in random order (easy) or the order in which they 
were played (hard).

5. The words may be taken from the list of words actually played by the 
player (slightly easier) or the longer list of total words formed by the 
player during the game (slightly harder).

6. All words formed by all players may be used (extremely hard).

7. Anything else you can think of :) Special consideration will be given to 
entries that satisfy more difficult sets of constraints.

8. Entries can be submitted to camb (browne@research.canon.com.au) along 
with a board summary of the game used. Anyone can enter.

camb