If you’re a lover of words and games like me, get ready to join me in excitement — and, eventually, in frustration — because there’s a new daily word puzzle of sorts. New York-based art group MSCHF has started an AOL-style chatroom called Redact-A-Chat that censors a word every time it’s used. Wordle’s creator Josh Wardle recently worked at MSCHF for a few years.
So, how does it work? There’s a main chatroom where you can write anything, but if a word is repeated, it gets covered with a blue blurry line and becomes unavailable for the entire day. I got to try it out first, and it seems that repeated words in sentences cause a second mention to be blurred out as well. At midnight all words become fair game again. Announcements about newly censored words and when time will start again come from three one-eyed security pins reminiscent of Microsoft Word security pins.
MSCHF said in a statement that Redact-A-Chat “forces creative communication. You must constantly stay ahead of the censors to keep your conversation going. On the other hand, you can be that idiot who starts making his way through the dictionary to deprive everyone else of the language.”
If you’re unsure about participating in the main room, you can start a chat for your friends. All you have to do is click the create a chat room button, give it a name and it will appear. You can then invite others to the group with a unique code.
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