I think I know a way to further evolve this game. Thanks for your patience as I keep evolving the rules!
We're going to a point system. The chain with the least number of points wins. Here's how the scoring works:
- For a perfect word-to-word match, 0 points.
- For a match of a word with a plural of that word, 1 point.
- For a match where 1 word is embedded in the other word (such as Star in Starmaster), 10 points.
- Using any of the short words as a match (is, the, of, or, and) is still illegal.
- It's illegal to make a match using portions of both word (such as matching "command" with "superman". If "superman" were spelled "Super Man", then this would be legal but would cost 10 points as above).
So given these rules, who can link Laser Blast to Pitfall using the fewest number of points? In case of a tie in points, the shortest chain wins.