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prp
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Six-letter word game, 9th edition
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Feb 12 16:22 UTC 2001 |
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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prp
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response 1 of 1037:
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Feb 12 16:29 UTC 2001 |
The 8th edition was item puzzle:131.
The lastword there was scatch. So ...
scatch 0 lastword kentn
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rcurl
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response 2 of 1037:
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Feb 12 17:09 UTC 2001 |
Puzzle item 149 has been linked to Language item 109.
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aruba
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response 3 of 1037:
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Feb 12 21:16 UTC 2001 |
Thanks for the link, Rane.
teepee
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prp
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response 4 of 1037:
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Feb 12 21:26 UTC 2001 |
scatch 0 lastword kentn
teepee 0 aruba
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kentn
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response 5 of 1037:
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Feb 13 02:50 UTC 2001 |
unease
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aruba
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response 6 of 1037:
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Feb 13 04:30 UTC 2001 |
easels
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prp
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response 7 of 1037:
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Feb 13 21:53 UTC 2001 |
scatch 0 lastword kentn
teepee 0 aruba
unease 0 kentn
easels 0 aruba
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prp
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response 8 of 1037:
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Feb 15 16:10 UTC 2001 |
Maybe this item should be linked to agora to drum up some new players.
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kentn
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response 9 of 1037:
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Feb 17 14:53 UTC 2001 |
taxing
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aruba
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response 10 of 1037:
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Feb 17 19:18 UTC 2001 |
voodoo
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prp
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response 11 of 1037:
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Feb 18 19:06 UTC 2001 |
scatch 0 lastword kentn
teepee 0 aruba
unease 0 kentn
easels 0 aruba
taxing 0 kentn
voodoo 1 aruba
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kentn
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response 12 of 1037:
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Feb 18 20:08 UTC 2001 |
author
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aruba
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response 13 of 1037:
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Feb 18 21:07 UTC 2001 |
icicle
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gelinas
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response 14 of 1037:
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Feb 18 23:08 UTC 2001 |
chintz
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prp
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response 15 of 1037:
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Feb 19 00:55 UTC 2001 |
scatch 0 lastword kentn
teepee 0 aruba
unease 0 kentn
easels 0 aruba
taxing 0 kentn
voodoo 1 aruba
author 0 kentn
icicle 0 aruba
chintz 0 gelinas
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aruba
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response 16 of 1037:
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Feb 19 02:34 UTC 2001 |
looker
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kentn
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response 17 of 1037:
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Feb 19 11:57 UTC 2001 |
midday
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kingjon
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response 18 of 1037:
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Feb 19 12:20 UTC 2001 |
fishes
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prp
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response 19 of 1037:
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Feb 19 15:40 UTC 2001 |
scatch 0 lastword kentn
teepee 0 aruba
unease 0 kentn
easels 0 aruba
taxing 0 kentn
voodoo 1 aruba
author 0 kentn
icicle 0 aruba
chintz 0 gelinas
looker 2 aruba
midday 1 kentn
fishes 0 kingjon
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gelinas
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response 20 of 1037:
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Feb 19 17:03 UTC 2001 |
verges
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kentn
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response 21 of 1037:
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Feb 20 01:39 UTC 2001 |
bodkin
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prp
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response 22 of 1037:
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Feb 20 03:28 UTC 2001 |
scatch 0 lastword kentn
teepee 0 aruba
unease 0 kentn
easels 0 aruba
taxing 0 kentn
voodoo 1 aruba
author 0 kentn
icicle 0 aruba
chintz 0 gelinas
looker 2 aruba
midday 1 kentn
fishes 0 kingjon
verges 0 gelinas
bodkin 1 kentn
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gelinas
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response 23 of 1037:
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Feb 20 19:28 UTC 2001 |
hockey
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aruba
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response 24 of 1037:
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Feb 21 16:30 UTC 2001 |
logjam
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