In order to extract more money from the contestants and their supporters, the rules allow you to pass a word to another team and buy back in for $100 each. We would have missed our second round word if we couldn't have passed it -- seitan. Our subsequent words were skein, palette, convalesce, baccalaureate, and synecdoche. We had a little trouble with synecdoche and had to buy back in.
That got us to the penultimate round of three teams, in which all the teams spelled five words on paper -- bourgeoisie, terpsichorean, dudgeon, otiose, and sesquipedalian. The two teams spelling the most words correctly went into the final round of two teams, where the rules changed again. The judges drew for who went first, and each team spells a word until they spell it correctly. We got lucky, both in being drawn first and in getting a word we could spell: inconcinnity. We didn't play last year, but the judge said that it went three rounds before a word was finally spelled correctly.
We were also lucky with some words we didn't get: Faille, glossolalia, and panegyric.
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