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(referring to Grandma's Acro Christmas)
Submitted by lady_skyhunter 12/18/99
Mirror Acros......sorcA rorriM
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What is a Mirror.rorriM game?
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(The -'s are needed because the acro-checker won't let you put in anything that doesn't match the original acro.) I later refined this format to:
just because I thought the periods were less distracting than the dashes. Also, if we all use the same basic format, you can't pick someone specific out just from their punctuation style.
By the time a few more people joined the room and saw what he was doing, they tried it also. A couple of people liked doing so much that they suggested we try it for every round. We soon discovered that 3 and 4 letter mirrors aren't too bad and that 5 can be tricky. 6 and 7 letter acros are next to impossible to mirror because you run out of both space and time, although Abyss, mistert, and JoMaus have been known to accomplish this feat on occasion.
Then the trouble started...some people stumbled in and didn't know what was going on; some even started flame throwing taunts of "cheater" at the mirror writers and became severely agitated. I personally don't understand the big excitement. I can understand why a person would be confused and want explanation. But to me, if a person combines words and you consider that to be unacceptable, just don't vote for that answer. Some people are very extremist about extra words. In "real world" acronyms such as HUD for Housing and Urban Devlopment, the small articles and prepositions are often ignored to make a pronouncable word...in the HUD example, HAUD just wouldn't be the same even though that is what it should be by precise "rules". Or think about U.S.A.... Sorry--didn't mean to climb on a soapbox there.
So, in an effort to please and appease, I sent private /msg to the people who seemed to like mirroring and told them to e-mail me if they wanted to get on a mailing list. I then attempted to arrange a game specifically for mirrorers. JoMaus suggested I make it in one of the rooms on the first page so people wouldn't have to scroll down to find us. This was a big mistake as new people wandered in and the same thing happened all over again. We therefore moved to Town Hall and Trader Nick's for awhile but never really got comfortable there due to continued misunderstandings. Then, on December 8, 1997, BSI announced the creation of two new rooms in honor of our Mirrors games: Mirror and Looking Glass. We've been there ever since.
So back to the basic "rules" of mirror games. Try to always mirror on 3 and 4 letter acros and on 5, 6, or even 7 letter acros, space permitting. In past games, I've noticed that almost everyone manages 3 and 4, about two thirds of the people mirror on 5, and only a couple try to mirror on 6 and 7--those who do usually run out of room and end up with a truncated acro. Another example of a mirror might be:
or another three letter example, provided by cat333:
or a four letter example:
See the Favorite Mirrors page for more examples. There's no big philosophical purpose to this game variant. Mirroring is just something new to try for fun and challenge.
We've discovered it's fun to play either "free for all deviations" where each
player can use any alternative any round or "winner chooses deviation" where
the winner names the alternative for the next round.
Please
see the Alternatives Page for details.
For more information on Mirrors, go to the TOP
of this page.
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