I wanted to try a new take on the forum shiritori genre.
Pocket Shitori has four rules:
Players can take a turn at any time but can only respond to the most recent post.
The function of a turn is to make an unplayed word which contains all the letters in the pocket. The letters in the pocket are the final letters of the most recent word, the word before that, and the word before that. The new pocket must be declared in each post. All letters must be used, eg. if there are three lots of r then you’ll need a word like carrier. They can appear in the word in any order (you can play with them ordered, if you want, for a greater challenge.)
Any form of spelling that the player thinks legitimate is allowed. Letters are immutable: eg. no turning c into k or z into s. However, see the leniency of Rule 5. The player can also add unromanised orthography to their post as well, but this won’t have a purpose in the game. Adding an English translation of foreign words is also encouraged.
The language of the word cannot repeat within a three-word stretch. eg. the sequence Latin – Greek – Latin isn’t allowed.
As an example, a game could begin like this:
elephant (English) [ t ]
atari / アタリ (Japanese) [t i]
milites, soldiers (Latin) [t i s]
citrus (English) [i s s]
hissen, hoist (German) [s s n]
sensu, sense (Corsican) [s n u]
