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Cool Word Game is a free association vocabulary game that’s easy to learn and challenging to play.

The game starts by displaying two words, mostly adjectives.

The object of CWG is to us these two words to describe a noun, idea, or concept that has attributes of both words, a “Cool Word.”

Examples:

Noisy and Running -: a motorcycle, a diesel engine, Nascar, an allergy sneeze, a poorly working refrigerator, etc….

Green and Pasty – wasabi, snot, pesto, lawn mulch, a sick alien, a sick hippie, etc..

Modern and Cushiony – a Swedish couch, fake boobs, CEO pay, etc…

The answers can range form the mundane and straightforward to humorous and obscure.

The first person to name the “Cool Word” scores points. Sometimes several people may blurt out good answers simultaneously. When this happens a vote is taken to determine the best answer.

Another variation is to allow about 10 seconds for everybody to come up with an answer, and then vote on the best one. A player may not vote for him or her self. If there is a tie, nobody gets the points.

How points are calculated.

Each word has a difficulty score ranging from 1-10. These have been determined by votes of previous users. The overall difficulty score is simply a multiple of the two individual word difficulty scores.  

Setting the difficulty score up to 10 shows all available words rated 10 or less. Words that are rated 10 are almost useless, because their obscurity or specificity precludes them being usable. 

Enjoy

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Copyright 2009, Paul Holt