This contest is like no other: just think creatively, play with words, and you’re eligible to win!
The contest’s goal is to promote creative thinking on Steemit.
The contest’s sponsor is Whaleshares, a community of creative Steemians founded by @officialfuzzy.
The prize pool: 12 prizes, $270 total worth
I'd like to give a chance to win to as many participants as possible, that’s why there are 12 prizes in this contest:
- First Place: 100 BEYONDBIT tokens (worth about $60 in post payout as of today). You can use these tokens to get a whale vote on a post — I wrote a detailed post on how to do it here.
- Places 2-10: 30 BEYONDBIT tokens each (worth about $20 in post payout as of today). I will select the winners for places 1-10 subjectively basing on the criteria listed below.
- Place 11: 40 BEYONDBIT tokens and it’s The Random Prize! The winner for this prize will be chosen randomly from all qualified entries. Those participants who will resteem this post during first 3 days since the announcement will get twice as big a chance to win this prize.
- Place 12: 40 BEYONDBIT tokens and it’s The People's Choice Award! This prize is for the entry with the biggest number of upvotes (no bot upvotes please).
The contest is open for seven days or until the 100th entry, whichever comes first. In a week I will choose the winners and send the prizes.
Now, turn your attention to get what does the game consist in and how to create a winning entry.
The game
The game to play is called Catena. It’s a word association game to which I added a few rules to make it more interesting.
The game consists in connecting two unrelated words into a chain of related words (called catena) using the minimal number of intermediary words so that all the words in the resulting chain were related.
Examples:
the words to connect: ticket, thought
catena: ticket — road — book — thought
the words to connect: dream, sun
catena: dream — awakening — breakfast — pancake — sun
As easy as that.
So what catenas qualify and how to create a winning catena?
The game rules
- Only nouns can be used, single-word nouns will be given preference.
- To win, a catena should be short (3 to 5 words), witty (relationships between neighbor words shouldn't be too plain) and coherent (those relationships should be strong enough). A word play is welcome (i.e. the same word can be used in two different meanings).
- Two kinds of connection are preferred: by context and by analogy.
- A connection by contest is based on typical real life situations connecting words, for example: road — book.
- A connection by analogy is based on perceived similarity, for example: pancake — sun. There could be analogies by form or structure (snail — galactic), metaphors and symbols (obstacle — wall), or even multiple analogies (for example, both pancake and sun are round, yellow, hot and appear in the morning). :)
- Other types of connections are given less weight because they would make the game too easy. Here are some examples of connections to avoid:
- Rational, scientific-style connections based on logic, categories, opposites, sequence and cause-effect, composition, synonyms. Examples: man — mammal (categories); man — woman (opposites); winter — spring (sequence), beer — water (composition) etc. The reason why I exclude this type of thinking from the game is that it makes it too easy: anything could be easily connected using categories, the extreme example of this would be using the word “something” to connect any unrelated words.
- Purely personal connections based on empiric experience: for example, movie — tea because yesterday I was drinking tea while watching a movie.
- Subculture-based connections taken from films, books, memes, slang etc. (Steemit subculture associations are allowed as we all share them but are not given priority).
How to participate
Publish 1 to 5 catenas in a comment to this post. The catenas should be made with these word pairs (you can choose one or more pairs):
- Money, Bell
- Fish, Nun
- Nail, Rainbow
The more catenas you publish, the higher is your chance to create a really witty one.
Check the others’ entries first before posting — if the same catenas will be published by different authors, only the first one will be qualified.
Please submit all your entries in one comment together with your bitshares account name — you will need it to receive the prizes. If you don’t yet have a Bitshares wallet, create one here — there are plenty of contests and giveaways offering Bitshares-powered tokens, so you will surely make use of it later.
Now it’s your turn!
More Catena examples
If you want to better understand what catena types are conforming to the rules, here are some more examples:
the words to connect: mother, atom
catena 1: mother — warmth — energy — atom
catena 2: mother — earth — core — nucleus — atom
the words to connect: gate, guitar
catena 1: gate — key — music — guitar
catena 2: gate — garage — band — guitar
Catena uses
Now, when you learn how to play this game, you may start asking yourself what is its use besides pure entertainment? Indeed, there are many catena uses!
- For everyone: to develop creativity.
- For artists: to stimulate imagination.
- For creatives: to use in brainstorming.
- For language teachers and learners: to remember connected words better.
- For mentors and coaches: to diagnose a trainee’s thinking style.
- For cultural exchange and adaptation: to better understand another culture.
Rule sets (i.e. allowed / disallowed connection types) could be changed depending on the goal. For example, it’s possible (though very difficult) to use analogies only. It will lead to very long catenas with a lot of interesting images.
Background
Catena is based on the word association game which exists in many forms in many countries. Surprisingly, the game’s name means “Chain” in Latin and is borrowed from Descartes — «Catena Mundi», a term he used for a mysterious chain connecting all things in the world. Sounds familiar? ;)
More about the sponsor
The vision of Whaleshares community and BeyondBitcoin Hangout Series is to give people a voice to speak about their favorite projects in the blockchain tech space. We need to enable more people and incentivize more crypto savvy content creators to be part of the community, help build and benefit from in a synergistic union.
Join the community in our fast growing 24/7 Discord server offering many channels from general talk to post promotion to more contests!
And now, it’s time for some of the most pleasant activities — playing and creating! Enjoy, have fun, and I am eager to see your entries!
Credits
- A big thanks to @maxy-hopkins for proofreading the text. Max is a young traveler who joined steemit recently in order to share his journey. He post regularly on a variety of topics, but at the heart of the conversation is his adventure.
- Image 1 by Noah Silliman
- Image 2 by Robert Collins
- Image 3 by Luca Upper
- Image 4 by Angelo Pantazis
- Image 5 by James Thacher
Money, Lincoln, Bell.
Thank you for the first entry!)
What's your bitshares name please?)
Money - Contract - Telephone - Bell
Fish - School - Alphabet - Nun
( Nun also refers to the fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets)
Nail - Rust - Water - Rainbow
Thank you for the Contest (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
My Wallet is r1609
Thank you!
bitshares say this account is unknown, check it pls.
Oh, thanks for letting me know. I'll check it as soon as I'm back on my laptop.
r1609 should work now. Thanks again for the contest :)
You're welcome, the tokens are sent! :)
what an awesome contest!
count me in!
Money, Bell
Money - bill - 10% - church - bell
Fish, Nun
Fish - Water - Flowing - Nun (ok, I don't like this one, but trying is better than not trying)
Nail, Rainbow
Nail - Finger - Pencil - Color - Rainbow
Nail - Hand - Money - Leprechaun - Rainbow
Stay well dear friends!
Lucas
Malabarize-se
PS: my openledger account is LCSGBD
Thanks for the entry! Glad you like the contest!
you're welcome, thanks for making it happen ;)
You folks are dragging me into cryptoland... OK, I have a wallet now. I got my first crytocurrency last week. I hardly now a Steem dollar from a whaleshare or a bitcoin, but I am on the learning curve at last. And all for this... Do I get extra points for making the leap in one word? Because this one, I had to do this...
Money - Toll - Bell
Fish - Jesus - Nun
:)
OK, I suppose I ought to do ONE according to directions?
Nail - polish - manicure - colors - rainbow
Thanks for helping a newbie get her feet wet!
wallet: fishy-culture
Great. Thank you for participating @fishyculture! You can post up to 5 catenas if you wish.
Please add your bitshares name)
Hi, please add your bitshares name, it will be needed if you win)
Sorry for missing that the first time! fishy-culture, thanks!
Money- Interview-contract - work - bell
fish-wine- charity-oath-nun
nail- street-rain-rust-rainbow
thanks but the given words should be the first and the last one (i.e. money - ... - ... - bell), you can correct your catenas correspondingly, and please add your bitshares account name)
I do not have a bithares account)
You can get one here, it's fast and simple.
VIKA-ROMANOVA:) Thanks)
Money ka-ching Bell
Fish penguin nun
nail lacquer rainbow
dinero clin-clin timbre-campana
pez pingüino monja
uña esmalte arcoiris
Thanks, I have had fun with this
Thanks for the entries, ka-ching is found in urban dictionary so perhaps it falls into subculture-based connections, but the idea itself is funny) don't forget to add you bitshares name!
bitshares name: jsock1
Money, House, Door, Bell
Fish, Food, Jesus, Nun
Nail, coffin,bridge,rainbow
Hi @swati-s, add your bitshares name please.
Money - fame - drugs - death - bell
Fish - help - food - nun
Nail - girl - color - rainbow
Hopefully I have it right. :)
Thanks vitko! And by the way I think you are missing one tag.
Thanks @eirik!)
Money, graph, curve, Bell
Fish, river, flood, help, Nun
Nail, frame, mirror, reflection, Rainbow
thanks! pls add your bitshares name)
Fish-Jesus-nuns
Nail-wound-tears-rainbow
Money-metal-bell
Money church bell
Fish river baptism nun
Nail house sprinkler rainbow
wow. Cool, thank you!
Thank you 😊 I like word and writing challenges lol
what's your bitshares name?
nicholejames89
Thanks for starting the contest, I wanted to test myself out here and I must say it is harder than it seems, hop I haven’t done any doubles!!!!
Money – Bell
Money – change – time –bell
Money – draft – schedule –bell
Money – contract – ring –bell
Money – computer – tower – bell
Money – van – donkey – bell
Fish – Nun
Fish – lake – superior – nun
Fish – divine - vow - nun
Fish – act – prayer - nun
Fish – shell – habit –nun
Fish – seal – chastity –nun
Nail – Rainbow
Nail - photo - monochrome - Rainbow
Nail -colour – newton - Rainbow
Nail - art - reflection - Rainbow
Nail – bar - cocktail - Rainbow
Nail – bed - pot - Rainbow
Bitshares – gingin9110
cool ones, thanks!)
money,spend,church,bell
fish ,net ,water, nun
nail, hand,colour,rainbow
MY BITSHARE NAME EDEGBA-5
thanks!
Money, - Time - Church, - Bell
Fish - Fishery - Nunnery - Nun
Fish - Sex - Celibacy - Nun
Nail - Glisten - Rainbow
Awesome contest! Thanks for posting it being so generous!
Open Ledger Account: AN0-1
thanks!)
Money, house, guest, bell
thanks Max! only one, with your brain?)
Thanks for doing thisd contest! I always like to join contests :D Esspecially if there are prizes... Anyways, here are my 5 catenas. :) Some are bad, some I found decently well thought out, but I hope you find all of them awesome! :D
Money - Paper - Toilet - Sound - Bell
Money - Hotel - Bell
Fish - Dinner - Nun
(Nun as in bird ofcourse, we're not cannibals, are we?)
Nail - Bite - Pizza - Colours - Rainbow
Nail - Danger - Whale - Water - Rainbow
Good Luck and Have Fun everyone!
Openledger name: p1zzachain
Thank you!
It is intersting game i upvoted :)
Good post friend.
Very interesting . Upvoted and resteemed
thanks!
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The real problem is that i have a debt of 759 $ to my apartment rent and if i don't pay till the end of the month they gonna kick me out from my own home. I don't have friends and my family won't lend me any money...
My only hope now to raise this money is steemit...i like it alot here and the community is very nice...
Please if you would like to help me , a upvote would be awesome and would help me tremendously to raise the money i need.
Thank you very much for your help and i hope you have a great day
Proof?
Very nice post
A wonderful post. Continue in the same spirit :)
Thank you!)
Nice post plz keep it up
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nice. upvote me yes
Fun!
the first pic and third one are awesome..
like your post great work..
upvoted you and following you now..
follow back and upvote
Hey, glad you like the pics but the contest is about words not pics)
He just spams as many posts as he can to get as many upvotes as possible.
Good effort :)
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money, hotel, desk, bell
bitshares: grgr1
thanks! just add your bitshares name please)
grgr1
fish, restaurant, convent, nun
bitshares: grgr1
thanks!
nail, box, television, rainbow
bitshares: grgr1
if you plan to add more catenas, please edit the first comment and add all your entries there.
Awesome work guys! Lots of great entries; looking forward to see who the winners are!
The results are almost ready, keep an eye on it!