How to play Acrofever

The Acronym word game for witty humans

Write your Acro

A round begins with a category being chosen, and a random acronym is generated, usually between 3 and 7 letters in length. For example...

How'd Santa fit in the chimney?
O. T. F.

Players must then submit a phrase using those letters to start each word, making sure it also fits the category! For example, for the above category and acronym, you could submit:

Ousted The Fat

Note: Creative use of punctuation and words like 'and', 'of', 'the' etc are allowed outside the required letters. Just don't go too crazy.

Vote on the best

After everyone has submitted their acros (or the time runs out), the acros are shown anonymously in a random order. Players now vote for their favourite.

It's in the spirit of the game to vote for the one you truly think was the best, funniest, or most creative acro. To keep the game challenging and fair, you're encouraged only to vote for acros that adhere to the letters of the acronym and the category, within reason.

Scoring

Votes are tallied when everyone has voted for their favourite acro. The player who submitted the winning acro receives points. Everyone who voted for the winning acro also receives points.

In the event of a tie, the player who submitted their acro fastest wins.

End of game

Play continues in rounds until a player reaches the winning score. This is 25 points by default, but can vary depending on the game.

The player with the highest score is the winner!

Players then have an opportunity to view all round-winning acros from the game and vote for the Acros that should be included on the illustrious Hall of Fame. If it gets enough votes and is deemed worthy by me, the site overlord, it may appear there in short time.

Acrofever Terms of Use

Terminology for this document

“Website” is acrofever.com.

“Site Administrator” is a person or persons, as designated by the Site Owner, that is responsible for the day-to-day technical and operational administration of the Website.

“Site Moderators” refer to specific individuals who have been empowered to enforce certain aspects of this Terms of Use including the ability to ban accounts and approve Hall of Fame submissions. Site Moderators can change from time to time, and are under the authority of Site Administrators.

“Site Guest” refer to all other visitors to the Website.

No right to access or use

This website is for Members Only. Non-members are not permitted to participate in website activities including chats or gaming. IE: You must have a valid account in order to participate in this Website. There is no perpetual right to access this website. This site is Private Property, and by visiting, you are a guest. The Administration may remove your access to this site at any time, for any reason, without explanation.

Valid contact email address

You are required to have a current working email address to become a member of this Website. As such, one must be provided when submitting your account application. Site Management may need to communicate with you from time-to-time. Use of your contact details is in conformance with our Privacy Policy here.

Banned accounts

Your account being banned from the website will be considered a revocation of site membership, and constitutes official notice that you are no longer permitted to access this website. The ban extends to you as an individual, not just the account you created that got banned.

Code of conduct

Harassment

Harassment of other Guests or Administration will not be tolerated. This includes, but is not limited to: “Flaming” others, abusive messages, defamatory comments, etc., in either the Chat Window, Acro Submission, Topic Submission boxes, or anywhere else on this website. If a player asks you to stop making comments to them which they feel are inappropriate, you are to cease your comments to and about them immediately. Harassing other players will result in your account being banned.

Racism and hate

Promoting hate and intolerance of any culture, race, sex or religion will result in your account being banned.

Impersonation

Any attempt to impersonate another player will result in your account being banned. Examples of Impersonation include, but are not limited to: Profile pictures, account handles, names or any other part of another account's identity.

Multiple user accounts

Unless you have obtained specific approval in writing from an Administrator, you are only permitted to have one account on this website. Failure to adhere to this will result in all your accounts being banned, and your IP being blocked from further access.

Public performance and broadcasting

You are not permitted to access or play this Website in a public forum, or broadcast, stream, or otherwise transmit this website or its gameplay without the express written consent of Site Administration. For the purposes of this Terms of Use, “Public Forum” means any venue where the Website is displayed where members of the general public can be reasonably expected to view the Website en masse. Examples of Public Form include, but are not limited to: Bars and Restaurants, Outdoor events, Arenas, etc.

Adult content

Users of this website have the ability to submit free-form text on their own accord. Content that general audiences can reasonably consider to be offensive and adult-oriented are NOT permitted in any lobby or game with “Clean” in the title. Therefore, you should expect content that all other lobbies to be Adult Content. If you do not want to see adult content, you can either enter a game labelled “Clean”, or leave the website. Users posting adult content to games or lobbies labelled “Clean” will have their accounts banned.

No liability

Site Administration and Site Moderators are not liable in any way for the content on this website that is produced by other website visitors and members. However, you have the ability to report any abuse or breaking of the aforementioned code of conduct, and action will be taken if appropriate.

Reporting abuse

All reports of abuse should be sent via email to abuse@acrofever.com. Please do not email the Site Administrators or Site Moderators directly, as the proper abuse email address will go to all Site Administrators. Include a screen capture of what you’re reporting including the full URL of the game page as well if you can.