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"A what" I hear some of your say?!?

Last night we watched a comedy show called "Dave Gorman's GoogleWhack Adventure" . The theme of the program surrounds a game called Googlewhacks and Dave Gorman's obession with it. It was actually quite funny but more in the way he tells his story rather than what he's saying.

So what's a Googlewhack and how do you play it?

Simply put, using Google you have to get it to return a single result using two words.

There are some rules though:

1) You're not allowed to submit the words in quote marks.
2) The words have to appear in Google's Dictionary - http://www.answers.com. Rather than having to keep popping back and forth to here the way you know it's correct is by making sure that the words are underlined and linking to the dictionary in the blue bar at the top of the results page.
3) Also in that bar it should say "Results 1 - 1"
4) Finally, Google has to show the two words in the excerpt of the page in the results. If it's in a list like a dictionary, glossary, thesaurus etc. then it doesn't count.

Not so easy now is it 

I'm not going to put an example on here as it will probably be out of date by tomorrow morning so have a look at the official site www.googlewhack.com. Have a go and if you do manage to get one then you submit it to them. Oh and don't forget to put it on here so we can look as well .

James