How to play Contact

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Learn the rules to the word game Contact quickly and concisely - This video has no distractions, just the rules. Don't own the game? Buy it here: amazon.com - https://amzn.to/40jJiQV amazon.ca - https://amzn.to/4b5kjXO (As an Amazon Affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases) https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/448927/contact RULES: The object of the game for the guessers is to guess the secret word, the object for the defender is to protect the secret word. Shuffle the deck and place it facedown on the table. Pick one player to be the defender and everyone else is a guesser. The defender draws the top card and secretly pick one of the words. This is called the secret word. The defender reveals the first letter in the secret word, for example “G”. Now any guesser can make up a clue that has an answer beginning with that letter. For example, “A barnyard animal.” If another guesser thinks they know what the answer is, they yell “contact”. Now, both of those two guessers count down from 3 and say the answer at the same time. If they say different words, then nothing happens and all the guessers must go back to thinking up another clue. But if both guessers say the same word, then the defender must reveal the next letter in their secret word, The process of giving a new clue repeats; but with the new clue’s answer needing to start with all the revealed letters. For example, the next letter “R” makes the next valid clue: “The color of grass.” With the answer being “GReen”. Then the next letter from the secret word is added “G-R-O”, and so on. When a clue is given, the defender should try to block by giving a valid answer to the clue before the two guessers can. To continue the earlier example from G: the defender would say: “It’s not a goose.” Now the guessers have to stop and come up with a new clue. Clues and answers may not be repeated, nor can slight modifications to them. For example: the clue “A barnyard animal” Or “A barnyard animal that isn’t a goose” would not be allowed; but “A barnyard mammal that eats grass” or “an animal on a farm” would be allowed. Clues may not contain private knowledge or inside jokes. For example: “what I had for lunch today” is not allowed; but “the material this table is made out of” would be allowed. If two guessers say basically the same word, like “chemistry” and “chemist”, then that counts. Guessers may not give answers that don’t match the clue or start with the different letters. If they do, they don’t count. When two players say the secret word during a contact; or if the defender says the secret word, then the round ends. Pick a new defender and play again. To play competitively, at the beginning of each round start a stopwatch and whoever can be the defender the longest wins.