The Six Letter Word Game, 13th Edition

Jan 4 17:04 UTC 2005

  ______  __                     
 /\__  _\/\ \      __            
 \/_/\ \/\ \ \___ /\_\    ____   is the 6-letter word game.  It works like 
    \ \ \ \ \  _ `\/\ \  /',__\  this:  One person is "it". That person    
     \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \/\__, `\ thinks of a six-letter word.  It must be a
      \ \_\ \ \_\ \_\ \_\/\____/ real, English word, which can be found in 
       \/_/  \/_/\/_/\/_/\/___/  some dictionary.                          
 
Other players try to guess the word, and their guesses must also be real,
English words.  The person who is "it" scores the guesses according to how
many letters in the guess match those in the word he's thinking of.  So for
instance, if the word is "spring", then the scoring might go like this:

 /--------------------------------------------------------------\
 | waffle  0  (no letters in common with spring)                |
 | cranny  1  (both cranny and spring have n as the 5th letter) |
 | apples  1  (both apples and spring have p as the 2nd letter) |
 | string  5  (string and spring match in 5 places)             |
 \--------------------------------------------------------------/

etc.  The game continues until someone guesses a word, and then that
person becomes "it", and the whole thing starts over again.

Complete rules are in ~rcurl/letter.match .  A list of all words used
throughout the history of the game is in ~rcurl/l.m.words .  It's customary
for the person who's "it" to store a list of all the current guesses in a
file called letter.match6 in his or her home directory.  So for instance
if kentn is "it", the guesses so far will be in ~kentn/letter.match6 .

response 2 of 697:

Jan 4 22:55 UTC 2005

series

response 4 of 697:

Jan 5 18:02 UTC 2005

__ tizwin 0 lastword __
   series 0 kentn
__ bantam 0 gelinas ___

response 6 of 697:

Jan 5 22:14 UTC 2005

__ tizwin 0 lastword __
   series 0 kentn
__ bantam 0 gelinas ___
__ sneeze 0 aruba _____

response 8 of 697:

Jan 6 07:02 UTC 2005

eutaxy

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : 


  Eutaxy \Eu"tax*y\, n. [Gr. ?; ? well + ? arrangement: cf. F.
     eutaxie.]
     Good or established order or arrangement. [R.] --E.
     Waterhouse.

response 10 of 697:

Jan 6 16:35 UTC 2005

azalea

response 12 of 697:

Jan 8 04:28 UTC 2005

import

response 14 of 697:

Jan 10 04:33 UTC 2005

__ tizwin 0 lastword __
   series 0 kentn
__ bantam 0 gelinas ___
__ sneeze 0 aruba _____
   agouti 0 gelinas
   eutaxy 0 juicy
   arango 0 kentn
__ azalea 0 aruba _____
   import 0 gelinas
__ cowpox 0 kentn _____

response 16 of 697:

Jan 10 18:14 UTC 2005

odious

response 18 of 697:

Jan 11 03:14 UTC 2005

fluffy

response 20 of 697:

Jan 12 06:19 UTC 2005

Puzzle 174 has been linked to Language 135

response 22 of 697:

Jan 12 18:46 UTC 2005

__ tizwin 0 lastword __
   series 0 kentn
__ bantam 0 gelinas ___
__ sneeze 0 aruba _____
   agouti 0 gelinas
   eutaxy 0 juicy
   arango 0 kentn
__ azalea 0 aruba _____
   import 0 gelinas
__ cowpox 0 kentn _____
   psyche 0 gelinas
__ odious 0 aruba _____
   fluffy 0 gelinas
   byways 0 aruba
__ weighs 0 albaugh ___

response 24 of 697:

Jan 13 05:59 UTC 2005

rhombi