I played this game with Kaz! once. Out loud. Generally, these took about three hours to get through, and better than a thousand words (most of which we made up). On the other hand, our rules were such monstrosities as:
-if the SECOND letter in the word is a VOWEL then the THIRD letter must be a CONSONANT, but if the SECOND letter is a CONSONANT than the LAST letter must be an "S".
-the word may not contain any of the letters "r, s, t, l, n, or e", except as the FIRST, LAST, or THIRD letters.
-The word must contain, as a component, another English word, OR it must be exactly one syllable long.
-The word must contain EXACTLY THREE of the letters in the word "Spacebar" (and any number of other letters).

We got into a pattern of starting the game by asking which of the "words" in the sequence aa, ab, ac, ..., zz were in the box. Then, of course, I got stumped by Kaz!'s next rule, "The word must be an actual English word."

So I'm a little leery of getting into one of these again, but okay. I won't even ask which of the combinations of two letters will fit in the box.

So, about this guy. Even without the internet, can he sign up on "Ameritrade" and start earning "interest"? Doesn't he need the extra "money" to order "pizza"? And is his computer an "IBM" or a "macintosh"? Or "neither"? An old "Apple" or "TI"? Or maybe one of the el-cheapo web "machines"? Does it have any "Microsoft" software on it?

But wait, all of the web machines run Linux. I guess it's not one of those.

-Spacebar