Hey all—
So I know BanjoZebra is running a contest right now but I was bored and decided to hold one of my own (of sorts) that should not interfere. (I plan to participate in that one as well.)
I’ve always been fascinated with Word Ladder “titles”. With most Word Ladders I’ve made I’ve come up with a title first and then made the ladder. I made one called “Word Ladder: Mwahahahaha” a while back before knowing what it would be about. Eventually it was published but the title was changed to “Word Ladder: Villains”. This was unfortunate since the only good thing about the quiz to begin with was the original title.
I’ve since realized I’m not very good at making Word Ladders. But many of you people are good at it. So I thought I could throw out a bunch of titles and you could make Word Ladders out of them.
If you make a word ladder with a title from the list below, and it meets the guidelines I’m about to lay out, I’ll make it an Editor Pick in the Just For Fun section. I wish I could offer more, but I can promise you that there is always a high demand for Word Ladders on the site, and an EP will certainly not hurt the chances of it being published in the Daily Dose.
Guidelines:
Thanks to citkeane, our amazing Word Ladder Curator, I was able to come up with some specific rules.
1. These word ladders must be Daily Dose Length. So, let’s say between 12 and 45 rungs. (If your ladder has only twelve rungs and is only 4-letter words, though, it had better be damn clever.)
2. It needs to fit the given title in some way. Some of these are pop culture references, but the Ladder doesn’t need to have anything to do with that—it just needs to somehow make sense with the title. The more clever or creative the quiz is, the less it needs to adhere to this guideline.
3. Color it. (Colour it.) Unless not coloring it is somehow part of the theme. (Though the “Unthemed in Brown and Amber” quiz should be brown and amber.)
4. If more than one person makes a quiz with the same title, I’ll just have to pick one of them. If you want to “lay claim” to a title, you can post dibs on it here if you like. But I can’t prevent or disqualify anyone from making the quiz anyway. If it seems like I need to “retire” a title (if it’s been used enough), I’ll post an indication here.
5. This pseudo-contest will end on May 12 @ 11:59 PM. (It’s a full four weeks. EP’s may be given out as it goes along.)
6. Regular Word Ladder rules apply. If you are not familiar with them and/or are new at making a Word Ladder, citkeane has wisely suggested I refer you to sproutcm’s blog entry: http://www.sporcle.com/blog/2011/03/sporcle-word-ladders-best-practices/
Here is the title list:
Word Ladder: Our Lesser Angels
Word Ladder: No Applause, Just Throw Money
Word Ladder: It’s a Trap!
Word Ladder: Zombie Apocalypse
Word Ladder: Unthemed in Brown and Amber
Word Ladder: Why ‘re You Hitting Yourself?
Word Ladder: Disco Boogie Meltdown
Word Ladder: With a Splash of Cranberry
Word Ladder: Velvety Purple Venezuela
Word Ladder: Somewhere, a Dog Barks
Word Ladder: Well Hello Mr. Fancy Pants
Word Ladder: Get Confident, Stupid
Word Ladder: Tacos for All
Word Ladder: Probably Something Churchill Said
Word Ladder: Meet Me in Montauk
Word Ladder: Oh Happenstance!
Word Ladder: Click Here for Details
Word Ladder: Chekhov’s Gun
Word Ladder: Red Dald Row
Word Ladder: A Hawk from a Handsaw
I think that’s it. Have fun.
"If you want to “lay claim” to a title, you can post dibs on it here if you like." I think this is a bad concept. I am going to start working on a ladder right now, but if my chosen theme doesn't go anywhere, I am going to try a different theme. If the resulting ladder isn't special enough, I am going to try a different different theme until I am personally satisfied with the result. It's entirely possible that I won't even launch a contest ladder at all.
Do you want us to post them here? Anyway, I made one with the Why're you hitting yourself?
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I thought I ought to enter a quiz, seeing as I curate this subcategory. Here's the link:
Thanks to dru for coming up with this "contest". Always nice to see new, and no-so-new, users making ladders.
I also made this word ladder because I want to improve and make a lot more in the future. I would appreciate the feedback, although this is not part of the contest.
http://m.sporcle.com/games/NYYanks/rainbow-word-ladder
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Hey all—
So I know BanjoZebra is running a contest right now but I was bored and decided to hold one of my own (of sorts) that should not interfere. (I plan to participate in that one as well.)
I’ve always been fascinated with Word Ladder “titles”. With most Word Ladders I’ve made I’ve come up with a title first and then made the ladder. I made one called “Word Ladder: Mwahahahaha” a while back before knowing what it would be about. Eventually it was published but the title was changed to “Word Ladder: Villains”. This was unfortunate since the only good thing about the quiz to begin with was the original title.
I’ve since realized I’m not very good at making Word Ladders. But many of you people are good at it. So I thought I could throw out a bunch of titles and you could make Word Ladders out of them.
If you make a word ladder with a title from the list below, and it meets the guidelines I’m about to lay out, I’ll make it an Editor Pick in the Just For Fun section. I wish I could offer more, but I can promise you that there is always a high demand for Word Ladders on the site, and an EP will certainly not hurt the chances of it being published in the Daily Dose.
Guidelines:
Thanks to citkeane, our amazing Word Ladder Curator, I was able to come up with some specific rules.
1. These word ladders must be Daily Dose Length. So, let’s say between 12 and 45 rungs. (If your ladder has only twelve rungs and is only 4-letter words, though, it had better be damn clever.)
2. It needs to fit the given title in some way. Some of these are pop culture references, but the Ladder doesn’t need to have anything to do with that—it just needs to somehow make sense with the title. The more clever or creative the quiz is, the less it needs to adhere to this guideline.
3. Color it. (Colour it.) Unless not coloring it is somehow part of the theme. (Though the “Unthemed in Brown and Amber” quiz should be brown and amber.)
4. If more than one person makes a quiz with the same title, I’ll just have to pick one of them. If you want to “lay claim” to a title, you can post dibs on it here if you like. But I can’t prevent or disqualify anyone from making the quiz anyway. If it seems like I need to “retire” a title (if it’s been used enough), I’ll post an indication here.
5. This pseudo-contest will end on May 12 @ 11:59 PM. (It’s a full four weeks. EP’s may be given out as it goes along.)
6. Regular Word Ladder rules apply. If you are not familiar with them and/or are new at making a Word Ladder, citkeane has wisely suggested I refer you to sproutcm’s blog entry: http://www.sporcle.com/blog/2011/03/sporcle-word-ladders-best-practices/
Here is the title list:
Word Ladder: Our Lesser Angels
Word Ladder: No Applause, Just Throw Money
Word Ladder: It’s a Trap!
Word Ladder: Zombie Apocalypse
Word Ladder: Unthemed in Brown and Amber
Word Ladder: Why ‘re You Hitting Yourself?
Word Ladder: Disco Boogie Meltdown
Word Ladder: With a Splash of Cranberry
Word Ladder: Velvety Purple Venezuela
Word Ladder: Somewhere, a Dog Barks
Word Ladder: Well Hello Mr. Fancy Pants
This is my first attempt at a word ladder. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Specifically I new some help with <br> in the game note. It doesn't seem to work there for me. Thanks!
Anyone done/doing the zombie apocalypse one?
I've just posted Red Dald Row. It's my first word ladder, so please be nice. Thanks for the fun idea, druhutch.
Please let me know what you think! All feedback is gladly welcomed and greatly appreciated!
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Congrats to Mimbleton (already a Word Ladder extraordinaire) for the second publish of the contest with Word Ladder: Somewhere, A Dog Barked. The title was altered slightly from the original listing at my request after revisiting the Far Side comic that initially inspired it:
(Don’t worry; I won’t have some interesting tidbit to share about each title whenever one is published. I had two interesting tidbits and now they’re both spent.)
So with that, we’re having a very nice run. Here’s quick recap:
And, as semi-promised, here are twelve more titles to celebrate the beginning of a new month and hopefully see the contest through to the end. (I didn’t have time to make a quiz introducing these titles, but I may still do that. For now, they’re exclusive to people who visit this forum.)
Word Ladder: Like a Hole in the Head
Word Ladder: All Glory to The Hypnotoad
Word Ladder: Loved You In That Thing You Were In
Word Ladder: Get Off My Lawn
Word Ladder: The Boron Ultimatum
Word Ladder: This Great Stage of Fools
Word Ladder: Terminal Velociraptor
Word Ladder: Now You’ve Gone and Done It
Word Ladder: Ooooh, Shiny!
Word Ladder: The Many Deaths of Sean Bean
Word Ladder: Made With My Own Tears
Word Ladder: Bursting With Flavor
If they all get used, great. If not, well, that’s fine too.
If you’ve already made a ladder and wish to make a second, please go ahead and do so. If you’ve already made two, then you should not, but instead consider yourself semi-retired with honors until the last two days of the contest, when I figure it should be "anything goes" kind of rules. All other guidelines from the first post still apply. “Contest” still ends May 12 at 11:59 PM.
Whoa, this is neat.
So – way back when druhutch published his first quiz that outlined all the potential titles in the contest, I thought it sounded like fun, so I clicked the link to this page to see the rules. I copied and pasted the relevant info, and then merrily went on my way, never realizing that this page was a going concern – it wasn’t until today when I played dru’s second quiz and thought I’d check the rules link to see if anything had been updated that I realized that a whole bunch of doings had been a-transpirin’. I feel like I should apologize a bit, I didn’t set out to overlap as much as I did, or bogart any of the titles or EP bids, I just figured everyone would work on quizzes and sort it out in the end, sorry if I overstepped anywhere. If Sporcle wants to sequelize or otherwise alter any of my titles. I am totally on board with that.
Also – when I saw, “Sure, the quiz violates the letter position rule like crazy”, I thought, “What? No it doesn’t. I’m really careful about stuff like that. Here, I’ll go and look at it now, and then I’ll prove that it doesn’tOHMYGOD HOW DID I MISS THAT?” Yeesh. Not once, not twice, but thrice! I feel appropriate shame. As I was making the big ladder, I broke it up into little mini ladders from theme word to theme word, and they all work, but when I voltronned it together I totally missed the violations. I will work on fixing it, but because I can’t just yank out the theme words in the middle, it might take a while. Ah well, much thanks for the constructive criticism -- and, you know, also much thanks for the kind words about the clues, I’m all flattered and stuff. This is a fun contest, I’ve really been digging seeing the directions different people go from the title starting points.
Cheers,
Mike
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Congrats to AdmiralMaxtreme and the third publish of the contest, All Glory to the Hypnotoad. Next time all of the titles will be Futurama themed and published immediately. (Know your admins, people.)
Okay I’m (half) kidding about that last part. But I would also like to welcome rer2121 as the new Word Ladder Curator! citkeane is essentially irreplaceable but since he’s a fancypants editor now I’m thrilled that such a talented quizmaker has taken over the job—and has also dived right in and helped punch up Quizmaster91’s word ladder.
@Quizmaster91: Your word ladder has turned out really well, and it's great you took the suggestions given. But I can’t qualify it for the contest unless you use the listed title, or come up with a better one, as another user did. I’d argue that as of right now both of our titles are equally dumb.
I’m not going to bother re-posting all the titles again. Just look four posts above this one. But you should not let this opportunity pass: this may be the third publish, but there are potentially many more to come. Josh already figured this out. Has anyone else who has participated taken caramba’s advice?
Make one! Only THREE DAYS left!
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And a seventh- Unthemed in Brown and Amber from goseaward!
I would post the link, but my phone does not like, unfortunately. Yay!
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