Game 104: Probe

Probe is a game David and I picked up decades ago at either a thrift shop or a garage sale.  It's a game David had played in childhood, and it's something that we always have fun with as a family.  Mostly we end up joking with each other or giving each other a hard time about what words we've chosen.  In years past I would get razzed about, supposedly, choosing words that other people didn't know, but that hasn't happened in quite a while, and I feel my boys have given me a very serious run for my money in recent years.  In fact, I lost spectacularly tonight!  In case you're not familiar with it, it's pretty much a fancied-up version of the pencil-and-paper-game of hangman.  Here you use cards to spell out your words, and there is also a stack of "instruction" cards in the center of the table.  Each player draws one of these cards from the central stack at the beginning of their turn and follows the directions, which might be "Reveal a blank card if you have one" or "Quintuple the value of your first guess" or "Take your normal turn" or "The player to your left reveals a card," or "Deduct 10 points from your score" etc.

 After selecting our words and placing them face-down in front us, we begin taking turns guessing letters and earning points.

 Here are the four words that we came up with for tonight's play.



Here are our words from the next night:
Can you figure out which was guessed first and which was guessed last?

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