Ten Words of Wisdom (TWOW) was a worldwide competition with 491 participants and their booksonas. In this wording bee, the participants would write the funniest 10-or-less-word responses and ideas they could think of. Some were hectic, some were humble, and some were hilarious. It all contributed to the wonderful fair of TWOW. Its legacy lives on in the form of its child, Eleven Words of Wisdom.
Prompts
- 1: What happened to the 31st of November?
- 2: How can you beat the cold during this winter season? You can only use one-syllable words.
- 3: You are sent to explore Earth's eighth continent, which humanity has somehow only discovered in 2016. Once you arrive, you realize why ancient humans tried to keep it secret from its modern civilization.
- 4: Try to use as many of these words as you can in a coherent response. juxtaposition, awkward, Farsi, factory, aardvark, world, sunny, dodecahedron, snake, antidistablishmentarianism
- 5: Write a haiku about plants.
- 6: What should the seventh TWOW prompt be?
- 7: What would you do if you became the next president?
- 8: Choose any word with up to ten letters. Then, write an acronym for that word describing the word itself.
- 9: Write a response of up to ten words that completely changes meaning when you take out the stuff in parentheses.
- 10: Make us feel sympathy for something we otherwise never feel sympathetic for.
- 11: Why do insane commenters like to fashionably extinguish shiny cowards, but don't like to quietly consume hysterical cats?
- 12: Jade was climbing a tree in her backyard for fun. She began to feel lonely, so she went to Ruby's house to invite her to climb trees together. Ruby agreed and followed Jade back to Jade's backyard, but upon arriving, Jade instantly knew they would not be climbing trees together. Why?
- 13: Try to sound as intelligent as possible while misspelling every word.
- 14: Talk about diversity. No two words of your response can be the same number of letters.
- 15: Create an advertisement for a restaurant in a world where eating is considered obscene.
- 16: Simulate an argument between Yellow and Orange Cary over who is smarter.
- 17: Write an acronym that spells out the word it's describing with the first letters of each word, or the last letters of each word, or both.
- 18: Write a response of up to ten words that completely changes meaning if you read only the stuff INSIDE parantheses OR only the stuff OUTSIDE the parantheses.
- 19: What is the speed of dark?
- 20: What rank should voters give your entry?
- 21: What top ten prize did the chicken cross the road to get? Don't use the letter E.
- 22: Compare Atlantis and Dream Island, using alliteration on at least five words.
- 23: Ten colors raced to get away from the 2020 zombie outbreak. One cheated. Describe which one without using the letter A.
- 24: How does a true TWOW contestant prepare for the finale?
- 25: What are the Ten Words of Wisdom?
Responses
SMW attempts to make clever responses
- 1: The 31st of November got relegated from the Premier League!
- 2: It's true, you just need a faux fur coat!
- 3: It could hide in plain sight, a lot like Wakanda!
- 4: Sunny's awkward aardvark got booted from the evil Factory World!
- 5: Zombies everywhere
I will destroy them all with
Plant military - 6: Tell the world why those damn seals are so dogshit.
- 7: Total railway balkanization is the first thing I would do.
- 8:
Wildly
Intriguing
Lifeform
Does
Extremely
Breathtaking
Endeavour
Enclosing
Serengeti
Tanzania - 9: (I have )Wiki(pedia open while watching football at) Camp( Nou).
- 10: Sharks never meant to harm us; they're afraid of us!
- 11: Bold to assume that hysterical would perfectly describe those cats...
- 12: The Ultimate Heist Crew stole Jade's tree when she left!
- 13: Thohz dayum seels kip tekign ofre teh ihnderneat!
- 14: There's absolutely nuttin' like a diverse conglomeration of wonderful comrades!
- 15: Ladoga's: All the nutrition that you need in one building!
- 16: I challenge you to go on that show for neeeeerds.
- 17:
Travellers
Race
Aboard
Nice
Structures,
Packing
Over
Ravenous
Time - 18: I (only) went raft(in)g on the (Ohio) River.
- 19: Negative three to the power of eight metres per second.
- 20: It all depends on how you view my wonderful entries.
- 21: On many occasions, it would not mind a bovid companion.
- 22: Long-lost livable luxury lands lying nowhere known to us lifeforms.
- 23: Red found venting! I'm very sure he is the impostor!
- 24: Dictionary isn't enough; they must discover the meaning of wisdom.
- 25: In the end, there's one truth: THIS SEAL WILL DIE!!!
ChatGPT attempts to make clever responses
In part, because there are 100 AI competitors on EWOW, this is to study what ChatGPT would say rather than humans.
- 1: It joined the unicorns for a cozy interdimensional tea party.
- 2: Snug rug, hot mug, hug bug, snug jug, fire's drug.
- 3: Seventh's twin, whispers hid, time's veil thins, truths forgotten, echoes beckon.
- 4: In the sunny factory, an awkward aardvark juggled a dodecahedron, juxtaposing Farsi with snake in a world of antidistablishmentarianism.
- 5: Petals whispering,
Nature's dance in green embraces,
Silent roots find life. - 6: Create an enchanted tale of moonlit realms and hidden mysteries.
- 7: Moonwalk into Oval, propose national dance-off, unite rhythmically diverse nation.
- 8:
Enormous
Lumbering
Entity
Praises
Huge,
Ancient
Nature's
Triumph - 9: I love (eating pizza), (especially with pineapple).
- 10: Lonely scarecrow dreams of friends but only hugs the wind.
- 11: Mad commenters flip script, adore stylish courage, shun munching yowling felines.
- 12: Ruby's backyard had no trees, just bushes—lonely branchless impostors.
- 13: Intellect alwayz trumps vocabulury, slyly deceiving the omniscient spellcheck.
- 14: Versatile symphony, myriad lexicon, enriches eloquent discourse, celebrates unity.
- 15: Indulge in forbidden flavor symphonies, savor taste rebellion discreetly. Unique!
- 16: "My IQ surpasses galaxies." "Nebulas laugh, mine exceeds parallel universes."
- 17:
Some
People
Only
Inspire
Laughter,
Evoke
Revelry. - 18: She didn't say (he stole it), just borrowed (his attention).
- 19: Faster than light, embracing shadows, the cosmic dance unfolds.
- 20: Quantum rank—simultaneously top and bottom, a voter's Schrödinger's dilemma.
- 21: Feathery fowl sought a podium, avoiding that tricky fifth symbol.
- 22: Atlantis, ancient allure, Dream Island's whimsical wonders, alliterative realms resonating.
- 23: Pink eluded, slyly escaping viral doom, outwitting other hues in pursuit.
- 24: Strategizing poetic prowess, wielding metaphors, script poised, claiming TWOW triumph.
- 25: Whispered sage, terse truths: Embrace, learn, laugh; evolve, endure, love.