Initgame
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/in-it’gaym/ [IRC] An IRC version of the venerable trivia game “20 questions”, in which one user changes his nick to the initials of a famous person or other named entity, and the others on the channel ask yes or no questions, with the one to guess the person getting to be “it” next. As a courtesy, the one picking the initials starts by providing a 4-letter hint of the form sex, nationality, life-status, reality-status. For example, MAAR means “Male, American, Alive, Real” (as opposed to “fictional”). Initgame can be surprisingly addictive. See also hing.
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