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I am thinking of writing a game where you adjoin 成语.

The one where each proverb is four characters long and people play in a round robin fashion or against the computer (this seems the only way to design a game where there is no cheating, because if users played using their phones over the network then they could just look up stuff in a dictionary (this way，cheating).

I was wondering, not only what the game is called, but what are some of the challenges of the game, besides, remembering, thus, from a psychological rather than mnemocnic standpoint.

I wonder whether one goes though an emotional rollercoaster, even if they know all 成语 very well during this game. How does one deal with this sort of challenge?

Thanks.

Joselin Jocklingson
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    I think you're referring to 成语接龙. I don't quite get the part about cheating. Why does playing against a computer prevents people from looking up dictionaries? There's lots of paper dictionaries. – user2249675 Oct 14 '23 at 16:15
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    I used to play this game. To make the chains reasonably lengthy, we accepted Homophones. For example, When we have一舉成名 followed by 名成利就， the chain would end with 就 because there is no idiom starting with 就, by accepting Homophones, you can go 一舉成名，名成利就，袖手旁觀，官官相衛，為民請命，命不久矣，以逸待勞，勞苦功高，高朋滿座，座無虛席，直斥其非，飛瑝騰達，達者為先，先聲奪人，人心惶惶，黃雀在後，後來居上，上下其手，手足情深，深藏不露，路不拾遺，遺愛人間，奸夫淫婦，婦人之仁，仁至義盡，盡忠職守，守望相助，助人為樂，樂不思蜀 (It is a Cantonese chain) – Tang Ho Oct 16 '23 at 06:14
  • It's like solving some 奇妙的 maths problems – Zihan Hu Oct 16 '23 at 15:39

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I think if you write a computer program for this game, just make sure it accepts multiple correct answers, since many chengyu share characters and people will think of different possibilities to finish a set.

Also, you may want to be laxer on the meaning of "chengyu". Exactly what counts as a chengyu depends on how strictly you define it. Many people consider things chengyu that might not strictly define as such, like the halves of other types of chinese sayings/proverbs or general sayings/phrases ( ◠‿◠ )

zagrycha
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