>Kinda of violates the whole spirit of the game. I would say the spirit of the game is a competition based on vocabulary. Surely memorising character sequences

>Kinda of violates the whole spirit of the game. I would say the spirit of the game is a competition based on vocabulary. Surely memorising character sequences with no understanding is completely against that ideal? I agree however, that requiring an exact definition would be a bad way to do it. The point is to understand, not to memorise, so they should only need to give an approximate definition. For casual games, I think agreement of the players is fine, and for competitive play, you can have a judge to decide if their definition is close enough.