Talk:Ghost (game)
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[edit] Winning strategy
I do not believe that the second player always has a winning strategy in Ghost, as stated in the "Winning Strategy" section. I think RSpeer wrote those claims, so he should prove them or provide references. Otherwise, I will remove those claims. I wrote a computer program to solve Ghost, and it determined that the first player has a winning strategy for the particular dictionary that I used.
--DavidGrayson 17:18, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
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Ghost (game) = Lexicant = Ghost (game) ... ? 87.114.3.33 22:23, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm not going to get into a revert war, but I don't see why the paragraph about word lists being barred from play is necessary. It duplicates the earlier sentence "Use of dictionaries is considered cheating". Perhaps that sentence could be elaborated upon instead. RSpeer 05:56, Dec 26, 2004 (UTC)
See, I meant that there's no reason this paragraph belongs in the "Winning strategy" section, and the one in "Game play" should be expanded on instead. So I elaborated there, and rewrote the "Winning Strategy" section.
In adding the "Winning strategy" section, my intent wasn't to give a comprehensive guide to how to cheat/prevent cheating at Ghost; my intent was to describe an interesting theoretical property of the game. I've clarified this a bit. RSpeer 22:25, Dec 26, 2004 (UTC)
This game is called Donkey Donkey (or just Donkey) in the UK. Kernow 13:11, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Anonymous comment, moved from top
I couldn't find a good description of the history/origins of the game Ghost using google so I came to check Wikipedia, but didn't find it here either. Something about an alternate spelling of 'fish' -- 'Gh' as in enough, ... 't' as in friction -- invented by some poet. Anyone know what I'm talking about? Fancy adding a paragraph on that?
- You seem to be referring to ghoti, which is a joke about the English language, not a game. See that article. rspeer / ɹəədsɹ 22:46, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Rules
"Ghost is a word game in which players take turns adding letters to a growing word fragment, and trying not to be the one to complete an English word" - Is this right? I thought you could complete a word, as long as it was still part of a longer word. Kernow 18:22, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
No, that's not how I learned it. The game ends when a word is made, as it says. 07:05, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
