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brighn
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Six-letter word game, 10th edition
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Jan 9 20:02 UTC 2002 |
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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brighn
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response 1 of 1103:
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Jan 9 20:05 UTC 2002 |
I'm thinking of a six-letter word which is not
castle 1 (lastword)
This word is not an everyday word, but should be readily known to anyone with
a high school education.
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rcurl
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response 2 of 1103:
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Jan 9 21:45 UTC 2002 |
Puzzles Item 162: Six-letter word game, 10th edition, has been linked
to Language 115.
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gelinas
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response 3 of 1103:
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Jan 9 22:11 UTC 2002 |
teepee
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brighn
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response 4 of 1103:
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Jan 9 22:28 UTC 2002 |
teepee 1 (gelinas)
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aruba
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response 5 of 1103:
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Jan 9 23:10 UTC 2002 |
tender
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blaise
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response 6 of 1103:
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Jan 10 03:18 UTC 2002 |
ornate
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brighn
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response 7 of 1103:
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Jan 10 06:21 UTC 2002 |
tender 0 (aruba)
ornate 2 (blaise)
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brighn
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response 8 of 1103:
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Jan 10 06:27 UTC 2002 |
(I'm now maintaining a letter.match file)
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aruba
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response 9 of 1103:
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Jan 10 16:07 UTC 2002 |
Thanks Paul. Kent and I recently switched our programs to put six-letter
scoring into a file called letter.match6 instead of letter.match, for
consistency (and because blaise was doing it that way and we couldn't give
a good reason for sticking with the old name).
preach
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brighn
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response 10 of 1103:
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Jan 10 16:22 UTC 2002 |
(My reason: Because I saved it with that name, and I'm too lazy to change it.)
preach 0 (aruba)
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brighn
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response 11 of 1103:
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Jan 10 16:24 UTC 2002 |
(Something to keep in mind: The plural of this word, when found, would make
an excellent guess for the seven-letter game, if that still hasn't been
found. I was feeling vaguely uncreative. >=} )
(Don't read too much into this clue, btw, it's more of a clue for the
seven-letter game.)
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albaugh
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response 12 of 1103:
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Jan 10 20:19 UTC 2002 |
streak
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brighn
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response 13 of 1103:
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Jan 10 20:48 UTC 2002 |
streak 0 (albaugh)
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aruba
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response 14 of 1103:
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Jan 10 21:30 UTC 2002 |
minute
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brighn
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response 15 of 1103:
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Jan 10 21:34 UTC 2002 |
minute 2 (aruba)
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gelinas
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response 16 of 1103:
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Jan 11 00:02 UTC 2002 |
refuge
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brighn
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response 17 of 1103:
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Jan 11 05:40 UTC 2002 |
refuge 1 (gelinas)
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aruba
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response 18 of 1103:
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Jan 11 16:44 UTC 2002 |
sprite
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brighn
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response 19 of 1103:
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Jan 11 18:35 UTC 2002 |
sprite 2 (aruba)
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blaise
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response 20 of 1103:
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Jan 11 19:14 UTC 2002 |
zygote
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brighn
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response 21 of 1103:
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Jan 11 19:27 UTC 2002 |
zygote 6 (blaise)
Blaise is up.
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brighn
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response 22 of 1103:
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Jan 11 19:28 UTC 2002 |
(btw, any benefit that word have given to the seven-letter one has already
been used up =} )
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rcurl
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response 23 of 1103:
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Jan 11 20:34 UTC 2002 |
zygote has been used before in a previous 6-letter game. Grep
~rcurl/l.m.words. (This is for information only and does not carry
any implication of fraud, cheating, or poor bowel habits.)
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brighn
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response 24 of 1103:
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Jan 11 20:47 UTC 2002 |
sorry. =} I thought it felt familiar, but figured that may just have been
because it's a common guess.
Then again, I don't know that there are rules against reiterating a word, so
I'm not sure why I'm apologizing.
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