INITGAME

Domain	Definition
Computing	Initgame /in-it'gaym/ n. [IRC] An IRC version of the trivia game "Botticelli", 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. [1996 update: a recognizable version of the initgame has become a staple of some radio talk shows in the U.S. We had it first! - ESR]. Source: Jargon File.
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Anagrams: INITGAME

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-i-m-n-t"
	-1 letter: imagine, intimae, iteming, mintage, teaming, tegmina.
	-2 letters: aiming, eating, enigma, etamin, gamine, ignite, ingate, inmate, intima, intime, magnet, mating, meting, tamein, taming, tieing, timing.
	-3 letters: agent, ament, amine, anime, animi, entia, gamin, genii, giant, image, imine, mange, matin, meant, menta, minae, tenia, tinea, tinge.
	-4 letters: agin, amen, amie, amin, ante, anti, emit, etna, gaen.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-i-m-n-t"
	+1 letter: enigmatic, mediating, miseating.
	+2 letters: alimenting, decimating, emaciating, emigrating, emigration, estimating, geminating, gemination, gentamicin, medicating, meditating, metalising, metalizing, misseating, negativism, timesaving, trigeminal.
	+3 letters: deaminating, diamagnetic, eliminating, emigrations, empathising, empathizing, enigmatical, geminations, gentamicins, germinating, germination, germinative, imaginative, impetrating, imprecating, magnetising, magnetizing, magnificent, maledicting, malignities, manifesting, megavitamin, meliorating, metallizing, misaltering, miscreating, misrelating, misteaching, mistreating, negativisms, readmitting, reanimating, remediating, remigration, terminating, trigeminals, unmitigated.
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