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aruba
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Six-letter word game, 8th edition
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Sep 21 19:08 UTC 1999 |
This 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.match in his or her home directory. So for instance if kentn
is "it", the guesses so far will be in ~kentn/letter.match .
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aruba
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response 1 of 905:
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Sep 21 19:11 UTC 1999 |
I was the last one to guess a word correctly in the previous item, so I'm
currently "it".
crimps 0 (lastword)
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aruba
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response 2 of 905:
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Sep 21 19:14 UTC 1999 |
BTW this game has to be the longest-running single topic on Grex. The first 7
items ecompassed a total of 6707 responses.
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albaugh
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response 3 of 905:
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Sep 21 22:42 UTC 1999 |
streak
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kentn
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response 4 of 905:
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Sep 21 23:05 UTC 1999 |
Well, I'll go with a traditional long-running guess
unease
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aruba
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response 5 of 905:
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Sep 22 03:25 UTC 1999 |
streak 0 (albaugh)
unease 0 (kentn)
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albaugh
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response 6 of 905:
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Sep 22 04:24 UTC 1999 |
taller
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aruba
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response 7 of 905:
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Sep 22 17:46 UTC 1999 |
taller 1 (albaugh)
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kentn
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response 8 of 905:
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Sep 23 01:37 UTC 1999 |
author
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aruba
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response 9 of 905:
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Sep 23 02:40 UTC 1999 |
author 0 (kentn)
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albaugh
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response 10 of 905:
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Sep 23 17:12 UTC 1999 |
thanks
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aruba
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response 11 of 905:
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Sep 23 17:39 UTC 1999 |
thanks 0 (albaugh)
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kentn
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response 12 of 905:
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Sep 24 01:33 UTC 1999 |
violin
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aruba
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response 13 of 905:
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Sep 24 13:55 UTC 1999 |
violin 0 (kentn)
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albaugh
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response 14 of 905:
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Sep 24 16:42 UTC 1999 |
master
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kentn
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response 15 of 905:
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Sep 24 22:36 UTC 1999 |
issued
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aruba
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response 16 of 905:
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Sep 25 02:29 UTC 1999 |
master 1 (albaugh)
issued 2 (kentn)
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albaugh
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response 17 of 905:
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Sep 27 15:59 UTC 1999 |
pelted
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kentn
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response 18 of 905:
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Sep 27 23:17 UTC 1999 |
osprey
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aruba
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response 19 of 905:
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Sep 28 02:25 UTC 1999 |
pelted 1 (albaugh)
osprey 6 (kentn)
Kent's up!
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kentn
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response 20 of 905:
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Sep 28 22:41 UTC 1999 |
Yikes! That was a lucky guess... Okay, I'll try to conjure up
a new work next time.
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aruba
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response 21 of 905:
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Oct 1 21:12 UTC 1999 |
(I'm going to assume Kent has a word by now).
teepee
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kentn
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response 22 of 905:
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Oct 1 23:37 UTC 1999 |
Actually, I do have a word in mind and it's not
osprey 0 (lastword)
teepee 0 (aruba)
A summary of guesses on the current word can be found in the file
~kentn/letter.match
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aruba
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response 23 of 905:
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Oct 5 21:40 UTC 1999 |
Where'd everyone go?
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kentn
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response 24 of 905:
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Oct 5 23:04 UTC 1999 |
Dunno...
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