More HIPE
January 17, 2020 at 6:54 am Leave a comment
Nearly five years ago, I wrote about HIPE, a parlor game in which one person gives a particular string of letters, and the other people in the parlor try to guess a word with that same string of letters (consecutively, and in the same order).
Well, I recently rediscovered Can You Solve My Problems? by Alex Bellos, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that he included four HIPEs in that book:
- ONIG
- HQ
- RAOR
- TANTAN
The fourth is one that I had included in my previous post, Don’t Believe the HIPE, and all are good enough that they deserve wide distribution.
Just for fun, here’s a new list of HIPEs that might prove interesting.
- SSP
- LWE
- NUSCU
- CUU
- CTW
- KGA
- UIU
- XII
In an effort to collect a bunch of excellent HIPEs, I’m asking for your help. If you play the game with friends and discover a particularly delectable combination of letters, please share below or at https://forms.gle/otddCw1uLeDALrMo7.
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