Beauregard, the reason why you've lost about 3000 posts is due to the elimination of most of the game threads. Everyone's experienced this same post total loss.
The only way to make sure that the Alphabet Game returns is by E-mailing Phil about it. Once he gives you a reply as to whether or not it'll be saved, you'll have to think up of the rules of the game and submit them to him in a separate message. I'd advise you to E-mail him about saving the game first and waiting for a reply to that first before doing anything else.
As for the dorms, waiting to know whether or not Phil approved the general rules I sent him to start up the thread again as a newly-reborn thread.
Hope this helps and have a good weekend.