Acronymble
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Acronymble is a board game that came on the market in 1991. It challenges players to create the funniest acronyms using random letters to start their words. For example, if players received the letters E.U.M.G., one might write, “Elvis Unglued My Grandfather,” and another, “Eek!!! Ugly Maneating Gerbils!” Players then vote for their favorite acronym (or Noodle as they are called in the game) using a blind voting process. (Players are not allowed to vote for their own Noodles.)
The game gives players 3-7 letters each round to write their Noodles. Letters are given in one of three ways:
- Purely random (e.g. E.U.M.G.)
- All the Same Letter (e.g. S.S.S.S.S.)
- A starting letter and a length are given (e.g. “G” and a “6”). Players are then challenged to come up with a 6 letter word that starts with “G” (e.g. “GIGGLE”) and use those letters to write their Noodle. (e.g. Granny Is Glowing, Growing Little Eggplants.”)
Acronymble is purely subjective, in that there are no right and wrong answers (although players are awarded points if their Noodle contains a complete sentence).
[edit] History
Acronymble was developed by Acronymwits Inc. (inventor: Steven May) in 1991. An Acronymble game show spoof was later produced using the premise. It aired on public access television in Massachusetts and won the Massachusetts Cable Commission award for "Best Entertainment and Variety Show" in 1997.
There is an online variation of Acronymble played under a number of different names, Acrophobia being the most popular. These online variations differ from Acronymble in that they always give players random letters (foregoing the Same Letter and Word permutations) and often ask players to write their acronyms on a certain specific subject (e.g. Sports).
