Jotto is a two player game, whereby each person picks a 5 letter word and they would try to
guess the other person's word before theirs is guessed. You would first guess some other five letter word, and your
opponent would tell you how many letters his
hidden word had in
common with the one you just gave. This is a very
interesting game as it involves a high
degree of
logic an
inference, but a good supply of 5 letter word is of
infinite usefulness. There are but a few limits on the choosing of your hidden word: it must be
English (or whatever
language you may decide upon); it must not have an
anagram; and it must have 5
unique letters. Those who have mastered both logic and the English language (or at least the 5 letter words that
comprise it) may solve a game in 5 turns, but those without such
skills and talents may go on endlessly with no hope of ever solving it.
This is an interesting
get-to-know-you game, too, for rainy days. The words you use my say a lot about you. One whose words are
study
learn and
teach
may just be incompatible with someone who chooses
lick
fuck and
bite. (I know they're not 5 letter words, that was part of my dry sense of humor.)