I know I'm a bit late to the party, but thanks for a fun first Safe Words game Khushrenada. I had fun with it, and will definitely play in future games.
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Thanks all. Glad you enjoyed it. I admit that near the end, I was getting really tired of hosting the game and it was weighing me down but I didn't want it to affect the spirit of the game for the players but there were a couple times where I delayed on responding or posting to stuff because I wanted to get some things ready like the Final Four write-ups or get some pictures together. I was very relieved when the game finally ended and felt free again. I'm glad that exhaustion didn't really show through and people were happy with the game.
As a bit of advice for future hosts, the changing of word lists each round wasn't really a difficult thing to do but what slowed it down was making up the categories and waiting for someone to choose a category and then making up a word list either on that category or fitting in an idea of a list I already had. If doing this idea, I say just make up the lists ahead of time and have them ready to roll out each round without having a player choose some type of list or category. I do think switching the list up each round allows for some more interesting choices / showdowns than you can get from having the same list throughout the game but it requires a bit of future planning to keep things from bogging down like it did in this game.