{"items": [{"author": "Gawain", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/705354851102?comment_id=705358748292", "anchor": "fb-705358748292", "service": "fb", "text": "The only problem with the new rule is that you have to keep track of which words have been used - maybe not a problem if you have someone writing them down. But as I see it, the advantage of the original 1-word rule is that as the game progresses, the words inevitably get longer making it more challenging to form anagrams.", "timestamp": "1420387313"}, {"author": "Frederic", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/705354851102?comment_id=705476187942", "anchor": "fb-705476187942", "service": "fb", "text": "You could allow many-to-many as long as all of the resulting words were longer than the originals.", "timestamp": "1420405849"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/705354851102?comment_id=705482654982", "anchor": "fb-705482654982", "service": "fb", "text": "@Frederic: All of the outputs longer than all of the inputs? I feel like there should be something where you match up the words one to one and each weird has to be (equal or?) longer but I'm not sure how to define it.", "timestamp": "1420410299"}, {"author": "Yoyo", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/112374925965540306459", "anchor": "gp-1420484261131", "service": "gp", "text": "I've played before with one-to-many rules (you can take one existing word + free letters to make n new words, each of which must use one of the free letters).", "timestamp": 1420484261}, {"author": "Josh", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/705354851102?comment_id=705611082612", "anchor": "fb-705611082612", "service": "fb", "text": "I haven't played many games like this, but I wonder about playing it like Rummikub. (Which Bananagrams does? Can't recall.)", "timestamp": "1420499208"}, {"author": "Frederic", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/705354851102?comment_id=705613068632", "anchor": "fb-705613068632", "service": "fb", "text": "The problem with traditional anagrams, at least in my experience, is that it's easy for someone to be much better than everyone else at the game... and when that player can steal everything at the table, it becomes a problem.", "timestamp": "1420500534"}]}