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Notes from the organizer: Game Twelve! Exit through the gift shop.

For your twelfth and final dose of festive frivolity, I'm giving you a Hypergoat Letters Attack. Your task is to write the best Chris-mas list; that is, make a list of things that I'd most like Father Chris-mas* to leave underneath the Chris-mas tree. You can choose how you do this. For example, you can declare RED in round one and SOCKS in round two, to make RED SOCKS as an item (and so on, with as many adjectives per noun as you like), or you can make a list of twenty nouns instead, or anywhere in between. Invalid declarations won't count towards your list.

The BONUS TOURNAMENT POINT will be awarded to any player who declares a valid word of ten letters or more.

To help you with this task and inform your list-making, each player may, in the comments of this page, ask me no more than one question of the form "X or Y?"; I'll answer them with whichever of X or Y I would prefer to receive.

If you have any questions about the rules, scoring, or anything else pertaining to this tourney, please feel free to ask.

Here is a spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ihS3JL1pa50yoy-U7fJ55vhry0rynVbOsW6Z_lWgNdM/edit?usp=sharing


*Father Chris-mas is not to be confused with the jolly, bearded, red-clad fellow who pops down the chimney and leaves gifts for children. Father Chris-mas is a cantankerous, moustachioed man in a cardigan who thinks that children should be seen and not heard (and preferably not seen either). Ho, ho, ho.

Runs from: 16 December 2024 – 1 January 2025. Format: Hypergoat Letters Attack. Matches: One-off. Approved.

Fixtures: 38. Completed: 14.

Results and fixtures

Key. Green: winner. Red: loser. Grey: tie. (Stripes: provisional, match in progress.)