CHAIN GANG
Don't break the name chain!What is it?- A contest where players try to make a chain out of posting your user name in alphabetical order
How to play- The game starts when the host picks a starting letter at random. Any one person whose user name starts with that letter posts first. Other users can then post, one after the other by copying and pasting the chain from the previous post and adding your name to the chain
Rules- each player must post in alphabetical order by user name
- each player (including the first player) has to post within 12 hours of the previous post
- As soon as the chain includes one or more names starting with the last letter the time-out period drops from 12 hours to 6 hours
- NO DELETING, if you delete your post you will be out for the next 3 rounds
- EDITING a post is permitted. Any edits must be completed before the round ends
- each post must contain the complete chain of user names from the previous posts
- A player who breaks the chain by posting out of order is "out" for the next round
- There does not have to be a poster for each letter, but you can't skip over (miss out) more than 2 letters
- To prevent the chain from getting stuck at the end of the alphabet, where there are fewer users, [U-V-W] and [X-Y-Z] can be treated as a single letter when counting skipped letters
- User names that begin with a number are considered as being part of "A"'s and come before A in the alphabet (in numerical order from 0 to 9)
- Symbols and special characters, included spaces are ignored from a user name. Alphabetical order is determined from the letters or numbers only
- ”5 Minute Rule” – Users have 5 minutes to post if they have been “skipped” by a poster. Any poster who posts claiming the '5 Minute rule' must add the words '5 Minute Rule' along with a complete chain of names with their name correctly inserted into the chain. The 5 minutes begin from the time the user who skipped you posted.
- When the chain ends with the “Last Letter” any posts past the last letter will be ignored
- The round ends when – either the chain is broken by a player posting out of order or the round has timed out
- A list of players out for a round will be included in the round start post
- If a player who is "out" posts in the chain that post is ignored and they are "out" for another round. Other players be careful: that means you can't count their post when skipping letters
- Have an eye….. Random backward rounds can happen at any time
Rewards 
Example Post:Rules wrote:n0tall0wed - pjmpjm - rory-ysn - SaoirseOfTheSea - sweetdreams12 - Vidyasagar - WordDiva - yousofine - 13Ice - Alcibiades - Alessa9 - Amill
BACKWARDS ROUND
The alphabet looks like this: ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA(9876543210)STARTING LETTER: L – LAST LETTER: MRemember, you can skip up to two letters. The first poster this round can be anyone whose user name starts with L, K or J. But the more letters you skip the fewer users there will be in your chain and the smaller your prize!
Good luck!User festusdog is out for this round.
Welcome back byrdboyl !
-------------------------------------------
Credit and thanks to avoran for the original Chain Gang idea/contest
