00:00Hi, I'm Kate Berlant. I'm an actress, comedian, writer, and I'm also known for my vocabulary.
00:07The New Yorker has brought me here to introduce their new game, Shuffalo.
00:11Shuffalo is a word-scramble game with a twist.
00:15Your goal is to make a word out of the letters provided.
00:18But every time you make a word, a new letter is going to be added.
00:21The words are going to get longer, more difficult.
00:23Okay, we're going to start with a softball.
00:26Obviously, I'm seeing the various combinations that could be made.
00:30I'm going to go with rats.
00:34But you could also go arts.
00:37Okay, now, as promised, we've added a letter, complicating things.
00:41Not for me, of course.
00:42So many options. You can go tears, rates, taser.
00:48Are you getting this at home? Are you understanding?
00:51You're constantly scrambling.
00:53Okay, they've thrown me another letter.
00:55Briefly struggling.
00:57Orate!
00:59I'm an orator, so this word really comes close to home.
01:02To orate, right.
01:04To speak pompously. To speak with gravitas.
01:10Look away! Don't watch me struggle.
01:12In addition to being a feature film, maestro is technically the term that is used for the person in the friend group who makes the dinner reservations.
01:21I tend to be the maestro in my friend group.
01:25Okay, the rats at the New Yorker have added another letter, as promised.
01:28They're trying to throw me, but they won't do it.
01:30Marmoset. This is a rare term.
01:34So marmoset refers to a basket.
01:37You know, picture a basket. You're holding a basket.
01:39The connected area where the handle meets the basin of the basket, that's called a marmoset.
01:44Very few people know this.
01:47Okay, we're now at the nine-letter final round.
01:51Yup! Maelstrom!
01:54And the root is strom, which was how people would greet each other in ancient Rome.
01:59Strom, strom. You see that in the texts and, you know, Aristophanes, things like that.
02:02It's like trow in ancient Greek.
02:04Hi, bye, but with a little more oomph.
02:07And that was Shuffalo.
02:09You can play Shuffalo every day at newyorker.com slash Shuffalo.
02:13Thank you to the New Yorker for having me today as an educator.
02:16It really means a lot.
02:17And to everyone at home, Maelstrom!
02:19It really means a little more oomph.
02:20You can do it!
02:21You can sing it!
02:22It's scientific, right?
02:23It really means a little bit of humor.
02:24It's like my question.
02:26To introduce yourself to are crushing, you know.
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