1. JOTTO (that other game you play with your mom) Jenna Wright

2. Materials: Do NOT need: ● internet (hard to believe right?) ● your phone (let’s be honest, your snapchatting when you have your phone) ● cards ● dice ● board game ● miscellaneous game pieces Need: ●Paper (get superficial and print out an official looking Jotto paper) ●Pencil ●a friend ○don’t have one? play with your talking dog, no talking dog? too bad :’(

3. Jotto/Giotto/Codeword/Dżiotto/more names What is Jotto? just a game… joking, there’s more to it… but yeah it is a game :) ● Jotto is a two player word game of imperfect information where one player has a secret word that the other player is trying to guess. ● Jotto is a guessing game where the less number of guesses it takes to guess the opponent’s secret word the better. Who ever had the least number of guesses is the winner. Yay!

4. Background Where did it come from? (Your parents gave you that talk) ● A word game adaptation of games like Mastermind and Bulls and Cow ● Morton M. Rosenfield invented the game in 1955 and produced it under the New York Jotto Corp. ● It was also produced by Selchow and Righter Company and is currently produced by Endless Games

5. Play by the Rules Player 1 (John): ● choose a word ○ no proper nouns → you can go to PARIS but you can’t bring it here ○ do repetition of letters aka no repeating letters → you can be SILLY but not when you play this game, be serious, very serious -_- ○ no contractions → you simply CAN’T use contractions Player 2 (Kate): ●guess Player 1’s secret word ●Guess with the right length of letters aka do not guess Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious it’s too long of a word to guess, or even remember how to spell correctly for that matter ●Guess real words, so no unreal words… ●generally do not use repeating letters in the word, unless otherwise agreed upon

6. Guessing Time ● John (Player 1) has his secret word, Kate (Player 2) is now guessing… ● When Kate guesses a secret word, John responds with a number of how many letters in that word is correct. ● The specific order or which place in the word the letter is may or may not matter… So, if the secret word is “ATIC” and Kate guesses “ZINC.” If the order does not matter she could get 2 jots for having the letters “I” and “C” but if the order does matter she’ll get only 1 because even though she had “I” it was not in the right place, but since “C” was in the right place she gets the point for that.

7. Codeword (Secret Word)GuessMarks dogsrice0 catsdone1 homenote2 nicemice3 lotsmood*1 * If there was an agreement to allow repeating letters

8. Watch as John and Kate Play the Game ● this is an example of how the game would go. Obviously we have John’s secret word, Kate’s guess word, how many letters in the guess word is correct and how Kate is thinking through the game.

9. Secret WordGuessed WordJotsKate’s Thinking huntrats 1 With the first guess at least one of the letters is correct, so Kate decides to change just one of the letters in her next guess this is a strategy to singularly check a letter (or some letters depending on what you change). huntmats 1 Since the response is still 1, "r" is obviously not in the word. So Kate decides to change two letters and keep two the same. huntlags 0 Since this word came up with 0 marks, Kate can conclude that none of these letters are in John's secret word. Since the letters "a," "g," "l," and "s" are not in the word Kate can either avoid using those letters again or strategically use them to narrow down the alphabet. And because "r" and "m" were the only letters changed in the first two guesses, with the result of 1, but in the last guess with 0. Kate can conclude that the letter "t" is in John's secret word. Now that Kate has eliminated some letters from the alphabet she chooses a word with completely different letters from the one before.

10. Secret WordGuessed WordJotsKate’s Thinking hunthelp 1 It may seem at first to be back at square one, but now Kate knows which letters definitely are not in the secret word. Kate decides to use that knowledge to her advantage. Since the result of the word "help" came back as 1, Kate knows that she can single out any of these letters with letters that are not in the secret word. With that in mind she chooses the next word, which will have three letters that are not in the secret word and keeps one of the letters from "help." hunthags 1 The results came back with 1, which means "h" is definitely in the secret word. Now Kate knows that "t" and "h" are in the secret word and that the other letters "r," "m," "a," "g," "l," "e," and "s" are not in the secret word, she guesses a word that strategically uses her knowledge of what is in the word and what isn't. Kate chooses the word "then" because she knows that "t" and "h" are in the word and the letter "e" is not. So if the result comes back as 2, then she'll know that "n" is not in the word. But if it comes back as 3, Kate will know that the word has the letter "n" in it

11. Secret WordGuessed WordJotsKate’s Thinking huntthin 3 Now that Kate has narrowed down the letter to "h", "t", and "n" the question is what's the last letter and more importantly what's the secret word. Since it's common sense to guess there's a vowel, Kate decided to guess the word with the vowel "I". Unfortunately that only came back as 3, so thinking about it over Kate sees that the vowels "a", "e", and "i" are not in the word. Which leaves with only "o" or "u". She decides to try "u". hunt 4 The response is 4, which means Kate got the secret word. Yay! It took Kate 7 guesses :) Beat that John!

12. Strategy: Choose Your Word Wisely Anagrams ● LEAST ● STALE ● STEAL ● SLATE ● TALES ● TEALS Words you know but don’t use often ●boxes ●joker ●quote ●table ●knife Or use uncommon letters ●quite ●jumps ●foxes

13. Eliminate AND/OR Use Eliminate Letter by letter… Use the known to find the unknown… SecretGuessJotsThink... LOVEHATE1which one? LOVEMATE1Not “H” or “M” LOVEMUTE1Not “A” or “U” LOVEMATH0It is “E”

14. Variations ● so many variations ● Change number of letters ● perfect order matter or not ● lying! but only once (or twice…)

16. Works Cited Just my Wiki… http://cs.gettysburg.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Jottohttp://cs.gettysburg.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Jotto