Redund (game)

"Redund" redirects here. For other uses, see Redund (disambiguation).

The game Redund has relatively simple rules, but the players can create amazingly redundant sentences.

History

young Alvin Dund when he was young

Lord Alvin Redund as an adult or grown-up

In 1721, when young Alvin Dund was at school, he was bored. He wanted to make up some REALLY long sentences. So he invented a game known as Redund, which was the origin of his redundant writing style.

Before the creation of the Uncyc article you are reading now, the game Redund was little-known. It is guesstimated that only about 200 people ever heard of it before this article was created. In 2016, the game Redund was introduced to Unrepztocleszbuia, an Uncyclopedia in Gibberish that differed from Illogicopedia. Soon it was translated into English; that's the rest of this article.

Rules

Main rules

• Redund is a multiplayer game. At least 2 players are required.
• The game starts with a short sentence which usually has 3 to 10 words.
• On a player's turn, the player must add 1 to 7 words to the sentence in a way such that the meaning of the sentence does not change. Or the player can pass his or her turn.
• Any word with 4 or more letters can appear at most thrice in the sentence. This is to avoid repetitions that can go on forever, which would make the game boring.
• If a player breaks one of the rules and is discovered, or if two players pass their turns consecutively, the game ends.

Details

• On a player's turn, the player must add 1 to 7 words to the sentence in a way such that the meaning of the sentence does not change. Or the player can pass his or her turn.
  • Players may not delete or rearrange already existing words.
  • Players may not add letters into an already existing word. For example, red->redund, red->redund or red->hatred are not accepted.
• Any word with 4 or more letters can appear at most thrice in the sentence. This is to avoid repetitions that can go on forever, which would make the game boring.
  • Here, different forms of a word (such as redund, redundant, redundance and redundancy) are considered to be different words.
  • This rule is case-insensitive; words like "march", "March", "MARCH" or even "mArCh" are considered the same.
  • Some words, like "leaves", have irrelevant meanings. The two "leaves"s in the sentence "He leaves the tree full of leaves." would be considered the same.
  • The modern version of Redund has words with 4 or more letters that can be used unlimitedly: because, does, every, from, other, that, this, what, which, whom, whose, with, would.
• If a player breaks one of the rules and is discovered, or if two players pass their turns consecutively, the game ends.
  • If a player breaks one of the rules and nobody notices that or nobody cares or all the other players don't point it out for some reason, the game can still continue.

Examples

Starting from "this sentence redunds", we can have:

1. This redundant sentence redunds.
2. This redundant sentence redunds; in other words, it repeats.
3. This redundant sentence redunds; in other words, it repeats the same thing in different ways.
4. This overly redundant sentence redunds; in other words, it repeats or paraphrases the same thing in different ways.

And it can still go on.

If you want to break a rule on the 4^th turn, you can do:

• This very very very very redundant sentence redunds; in other words, it repeats the same thing in different ways.

But if nobody cares, the game can still continue.

World records

On June 29, 2020, starting from the sentence "pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs", the players created a 1775-word-long sentence, the longest that started from a pangram.

On March 1, 2019, starting from the sentence "this sentence redunds", the players took one whole day to create a 1431-word-long sentence, the longest that started with "this sentence redunds".

There is a rumor about a group of students that took three whole days to create a redundant sentence containing 3524 words. The most popular version says that it occurred from August 26 to 28 in 2020, but currently there is no proof.