If you are a word and games lover like me, prepare to get excited and ultimately frustrated with me because there is something like a new word puzzle every day. New York-based art collective MSCHF has introduced an AOL-style chat room called Redact-A-Chat that censors every time someone uses a word. Josh Wardle, the creator of Wordle, most recently worked at MSCHF for several years.
So how does it work? You can write anything in the main chat room, but if a word is repeated it will be covered with a blue blurry line and will be unavailable for the rest of the day. I tried it right away, but it seems that if words are duplicated in a sentence, the second mention gets blurred. All words are fair game again at midnight. Announcements about newly censored words and when time resumes are announced by three one-eyed safety pins reminiscent of Microsoft Word’s safety pins.
MSCHF said in a statement that Redact-A-Chat “forces creative communication. To keep the conversation going, you must always stay ahead of the censors. On the other hand, if you start doing it your way, you could be that hole.” Dictionaries are meant to take language away from other people. ”
If you’re not sure whether to join the main room, you can start a friends-only chat. Just click the “Create a chat room” button, give it a name, and your chat room will appear. You can then invite others to your group using your unique code.
