initgame

games /in-it'gaym/ [IRC] An IRC version of the venerable

trivia game "20 questions", in which one user changes his

nick to the initials of a famous person or other named

entity, and the others on the channel ask yes or no questions,

with the one to guess the person getting to be "it" next. As

a courtesy, the one picking the initials starts by providing a

4-letter hint of the form sex, nationality, life-status,

reality-status. For example, MAAR means "Male, American,

Alive, Real" (as opposed to "fictional"). Initgame can be

surprisingly addictive. See also hing.

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