As originally proposed, it is played online using wiki software.
Players assume the role of scholars who write the history and background of a particular fictitious time, setting, or incident.
[1] As the game goes on, the players collaboratively create an elaborately interwoven account.
Each game is a series of 26 turns, keyed to the letters of the alphabet from A to Z.
Some games permit other players to post comments or expansions of earlier entries.