Flickrwhacking 2.0

Sometimes at conference the ridiculous becomes sublime, insane suggestions become ideas, and ideas become accepted by others. This is the shortened story of one of those ideas. (Sorry, you’ll have to ask one of the responsible parties directly if you want the foll story.)

Many of us have heard of Googlewhacking, the game in which you need to search Google using two English, non-proper-name, words and retrieve only one result. (Trust me, it is not as easy as it sounds.) In that spirit, I came up with Flickrwhacking, the idea of searching Flickr for two English, non-proper-name, words and finding only one photo. For example, search Flickr for pony and monocle, and you’ll have a Flickrwhack. (Flag on the play! I uploaded this photo so it doesn’t count. That’s cheating.)

In the spirit of my cheating I call this game Flickrwhacking 2.0 because there is already a Flickrwhack pool that you can find on Flickr. The trouble is, that game has you assigning a unique tag and if you’re in control that’s hardly as much fun.

So, I hereby declare the games open, and let the Flickrwhacking begin.

Note: I did my best and I can’t find a previous mention online of the game in this form. If I am not the first to come up with this please let me know and I will correct the record. Thanks to Jason, David, Michelle, and Meredith for their input and inspiration.

2 Replies to “Flickrwhacking 2.0”

  1. May I submit “harpsichord fortune” as my first (and perhaps only) play? I almost had it with “trombone kitty”, but apparently I underestimated the propensity of people to to add tags to their pictures that have nothing to do with the pictures.

  2. You may have invented flickrwhack 2.0, (unverified 🙂 ), but since the launch of Photophlow, the whole flickrwhacking universe has entered a new dimension…

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