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aruba
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The seven letter word game, 2nd edition
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Jan 26 05:28 UTC 2001 |
This is the 7-letter word game. It works like this: One person is "it".
That person thinks of a seven-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 "privacy", then the scoring might go like this:
waffles 0 (no letters in common with privacy)
splashy 1 (both splashy and privacy have y as the 7th letter)
spinach 3 (spinach and privacy match in 3 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 . It's customary for the person
who's "it" to store a list of all the current guesses in a file called
letter.match7 in his or her home directory. So for instance if kentn is
"it", the guesses so far will be in ~kentn/letter.match7 .
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aruba
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response 1 of 1124:
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Jan 26 05:29 UTC 2001 |
I guessed the last word correctly, so I'm now "it", and I'm thinking of a
7-letter word. It's become traditional to score the last word as if it were
the first guess, so:
mugwump 0 (lastword)
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aruba
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response 2 of 1124:
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Jan 26 05:33 UTC 2001 |
Incidently, if you're reading this at a time when this item has many
responses, you might want to to this:
1. Hit "q" to get to the "Respond or Pass" prompt.
2. Enter "last" to see the last response in the item.
3. Enter "-20" to see the last 20 responses in the item. That's usually
enough to get you back to the beginning of the current game.
That's all if you're reading this through Picospan. If you're reading this
on the Web via Backtalk, there's some other way to do it, which shouldn't be
too hard to figure out.
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kentn
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response 3 of 1124:
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Jan 26 11:30 UTC 2001 |
unearth
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kami
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response 4 of 1124:
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Jan 26 16:01 UTC 2001 |
mystery
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aruba
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response 5 of 1124:
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Jan 26 16:10 UTC 2001 |
unearth 0 (kentn)
mystery 0 (kami) Welcome, Kami!
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aruba
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response 6 of 1124:
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Jan 26 16:11 UTC 2001 |
Guesses so far are in ~aruba/letter.match7 .
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albaugh
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response 7 of 1124:
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Jan 26 19:35 UTC 2001 |
secrets
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aruba
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response 8 of 1124:
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Jan 26 23:34 UTC 2001 |
secrets 1 (albaugh)
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kentn
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response 9 of 1124:
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Jan 27 18:16 UTC 2001 |
vitriol
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aruba
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response 10 of 1124:
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Jan 27 19:56 UTC 2001 |
vitriol 0 (kentn)
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kami
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response 11 of 1124:
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Jan 28 06:56 UTC 2001 |
reflect
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kentn
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response 12 of 1124:
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Jan 28 15:20 UTC 2001 |
baffles
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aruba
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response 13 of 1124:
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Jan 29 04:07 UTC 2001 |
reflect 0 (kami)
baffles 1 (kentn)
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gelinas
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response 14 of 1124:
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Jan 29 16:35 UTC 2001 |
careers
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prp
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response 15 of 1124:
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Jan 29 17:04 UTC 2001 |
Note that this item is not yet linked into the Puzzle conference.
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prp
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response 16 of 1124:
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Jan 29 19:59 UTC 2001 |
stripes
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albaugh
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response 17 of 1124:
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Jan 29 21:49 UTC 2001 |
trained
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kentn
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response 18 of 1124:
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Jan 30 03:05 UTC 2001 |
almonds
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aruba
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response 19 of 1124:
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Jan 30 20:53 UTC 2001 |
careers 1 (gelinas)
stripes 1 (prp)
trained 0 (albaugh)
almonds 3 (kentn)
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prp
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response 20 of 1124:
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Jan 31 15:58 UTC 2001 |
albumen
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aruba
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response 21 of 1124:
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Jan 31 16:26 UTC 2001 |
albumen 0 (prp)
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albaugh
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response 22 of 1124:
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Jan 31 19:54 UTC 2001 |
records
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aruba
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response 23 of 1124:
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Jan 31 21:02 UTC 2001 |
records 2 (albaugh)
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prp
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response 24 of 1124:
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Jan 31 23:30 UTC 2001 |
remodel
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