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aruba
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The Six-letter word game, 6th edition
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May 11 23:59 UTC 1997 |
This is the six-letter word game. The way it works is like this: whoever is
"it" thinks of a six-letter word, and everyone else tries to guess what it is.
The word must be a real word found in some English dictionary, and likewise
each guess must be a real word. The person who is "it" scores each guess
with the number of letters it has in common with the goal. So for instance
if the goal is
waffle
then the guesses might go like this:
angles 0 (no letters in common)
banter 1 (both have an 'a' as the second letter)
puddle 2 (both end in "le")
wobble 3 (both begin with 'w' and end with "le")
etc. The game continues until someone guesses the word, at which point the
guesser becomes "it".
Complete rules may be found in ~rcurl/lettermatch.rules, and a list of all
the words used over the past 4 years is in ~rcurl/l.m.words .
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aruba
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response 1 of 1012:
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May 12 00:03 UTC 1997 |
I am currently "it" by virtue of having guessed kentn's last word, "palter".
Now I'm thinking of a six-letter word.
palter 0 (lastword)
You can find all the guesses so far in ~aruba/letter.match .
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adania
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response 2 of 1012:
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May 12 00:22 UTC 1997 |
enigma
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rcurl
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response 3 of 1012:
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May 12 05:41 UTC 1997 |
vowels
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aruba
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response 4 of 1012:
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May 12 05:47 UTC 1997 |
enigma 1 (adania)
vowels 0 (rcurl)
By the way, if you are reading this item at a time when it has a lot of
responses, you probably want to skip to the bottom and pick up the current
game there. Type "q" to get out of the pager, type "last" to see the last
response, and then type "-20" to see the last 20 responses.
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adania
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response 5 of 1012:
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May 12 17:03 UTC 1997 |
danger
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aruba
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response 6 of 1012:
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May 12 18:46 UTC 1997 |
danger 0 (adania)
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albaugh
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response 7 of 1012:
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May 12 19:10 UTC 1997 |
treble
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aruba
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response 8 of 1012:
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May 12 20:57 UTC 1997 |
treble 1 (albaugh)
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adania
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response 9 of 1012:
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May 12 21:51 UTC 1997 |
tumble
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kentn
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response 10 of 1012:
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May 13 00:35 UTC 1997 |
unease
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rcurl
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response 11 of 1012:
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May 13 06:19 UTC 1997 |
fellow
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aruba
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response 12 of 1012:
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May 13 06:22 UTC 1997 |
tumble 0 (adania)
unease 1 (kentn)
fellow 1 (rcurl)
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adania
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response 13 of 1012:
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May 13 06:24 UTC 1997 |
friend
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aruba
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response 14 of 1012:
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May 13 07:23 UTC 1997 |
friend 1 (adania)
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kaplan
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response 15 of 1012:
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May 13 15:05 UTC 1997 |
At aruba's request, I have linked this item from Language to Intro. Any of
you language regulars have a thing or two to say to the intro people about
why they should join language?
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albaugh
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response 16 of 1012:
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May 13 17:01 UTC 1997 |
fiesta
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aruba
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response 17 of 1012:
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May 13 17:56 UTC 1997 |
fiesta 1 (albaugh)
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rcurl
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response 18 of 1012:
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May 13 18:21 UTC 1997 |
Hi, intro people. You should join the language conference because you
would find lots of interesting language activities there. This game
happens to be the most active at the moment, but there are also active
items with users conversing in different languages. Then, you can also
learn when to use the restricitive and when to use the non-restrictive
relative pronouns!
[After you join language, you can forget this item in intro, and still
read the others, by entering the command forget at the Respond or Pass
prompt.]
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rcurl
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response 19 of 1012:
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May 13 18:28 UTC 1997 |
groovy
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aruba
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response 20 of 1012:
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May 13 21:42 UTC 1997 |
groovy 0 (rcurl)
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adania
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response 21 of 1012:
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May 14 09:50 UTC 1997 |
fanged
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aruba
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response 22 of 1012:
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May 14 17:49 UTC 1997 |
fanged 1 (adania)
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albaugh
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response 23 of 1012:
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May 16 20:47 UTC 1997 |
eyelid
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otaking
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response 24 of 1012:
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May 17 11:27 UTC 1997 |
futons
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