You can read Enjanerd’s take on the 2009 WaPo Hunt here: great fun had by all. Yesterday, Chu and yours truly extended one puzzle’s theme. We conversed over supper (at Jaleo) sans the second banned letter of Gene’s Donny Sobel essay. The largest challenge was our confabs to the servers, where we were usually unsuccessful. (You try to order food and use only four [and a half] vowels in your vocabulary!) When we engaged each other, however, our speech generally followed the rules of our game. (Proper names were also troublesome.) Perhaps others around us observed our sentences’ odd rhythms, but we hardly cared. Truly a cool endeavor, but one we probably won’t repeat often.