Using Obscure Words In Word Games

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I enjoy word games including Scrabble, Boggle, and crossword puzzles. A game the class often played at school at the end of term was a word game where we had to take turns creating words but not actually finishing them. We had to take turns creating words of three letters or more, but we could not be the ones who added the last letter. We could also not add letters that ruined the words that could be formed as if we didn't know what word was potentially forming we were out. For example, the letters given might be DOR - Adding z would give a none word, DORZ but you might think of saving the game by trying to get Dormitary, only to then be out because DORM is a word in itself An S might save you because you would force the next player towards forming a word, such as DORSAL. I won a few games by being second to go after someone added started the game with an A by adding another one to force the generation of the word Aardvark. Someone would usually be out because they would challenge me to identify the word and I would know it. It's only recently I found that as well as the Aardvark there is an Aardwolf and an Aasvogel, (a type of vulture). Both creatures are found in Africa. Youtube The Bee Gees - Words Aarthur Chappell