%0 Journal Article %T The *-Prikry condition %A Dimonte, Vincenzo %J Reports on Mathematical Logic %V 2018 %R 10.4467/20842589RM.18.007.8840 %N Number 53 %P 111-142 %K Prikry forcing %@ 0137-2904 %D 2018 %U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/reports-on-mathematical-logic/article/the-prikry-condition %X In this paper we isolate a property for forcing notions, the *-Prikry condition, that is similar to the Prikry condition but that is topological: A forcing P satisfies it iff for every p ∈Pand for every open dense D ⊆P, there are n ∈ωand q ≤∗p such that for any r ≤q with l(r) = l(q) + n, r ∈D, for some length notion l. This is implicit in many proofs in literature. We prove this for the tree Prikry forcing and the long extender Prikry forcing.