A sport
originated in London in 2011 and rapidly spreading. Quarticulate combines the bloodlust, hand-eye coordination skills and intense nerdery of online first-person-shooter game QuakeLive, with the vocabulary-testing, rapid-fire, word-guessing board game Articulate.
Players take turns to score points: by either guessing the words
on the cards being read by a teammate, or killing other players on the opposing team (by
simultaneously playing Quake Live). The team then advances round the Quarticulate board based on the number of points scored.
- "I'm so
frustrated!
I just can't find a way to combine my love of guns and murder, and my love of wordplay and
board games."
- "Have you tried playing Quarticulate?"
- "Quarticulate THIS, you massive nerds!!"