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Definitials
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Definitials is a creative word game devised by writer and music journalist Howard Male. The title is a collision of the words 'define' and 'initials.' The idea behind the game is that a word can be defined using its letters as a starting point. For example: ATOM could be - A Titbit Of Matter. Or ELEPHANT could be - Enormous Leaf Eating Pachyderm - Has A Nice Trunk. A general version of the game appeared for three years in the Mail on Sunday from 1998 to 2001. When it was dropped by the Mail, Male found a home for a TV-based version of the game in the Radio Times where it still appears. For example, the Definitial for American sit-com FRASIER was - Freudian Radio Annalist Suffers Intolerably Exhausting Relatives. Readers send in their entries and the best two are then printed along side Howard Male's answer. Definitials is very rare, if not unique as a published word game, because there is no set answer so entrants get to demonstrate their wit and/or ingenuity in their 'answers.' |
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