Six-letter word game, 11th edition

Mar 16 23:56 UTC 2003

 ______  __                     
/\__  _\/\ \      __            
\/_/\ \/\ \ \___ /\_\    ____   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 1013:

Mar 17 02:03 UTC 2003

waffle

response 4 of 1013:

Mar 17 04:48 UTC 2003

melena

response 6 of 1013:

Mar 18 04:09 UTC 2003

accord

response 8 of 1013:

Mar 18 11:43 UTC 2003

adjust

response 10 of 1013:

Mar 18 18:59 UTC 2003

insure

response 12 of 1013:

Mar 19 02:33 UTC 2003

ensued

response 14 of 1013:

Mar 20 03:44 UTC 2003

divert

response 16 of 1013:

Mar 20 06:04 UTC 2003

orchil  0  (lastword)
waffle  0  (gelinas)
melena  0  (carson)      My, that's a word I didn't want to know.
accord  1  (gelinas)
adjust  1  (kentn)
insure  1  (albaugh)
making  0  (kingjon)
ensued  0  (kentn)
divert  2  (gelinas)
nobody  0  (carson)

response 18 of 1013:

Mar 21 12:09 UTC 2003

thwart

response 20 of 1013:

Mar 22 03:26 UTC 2003

impart

response 22 of 1013:

Mar 22 19:21 UTC 2003

jumart  (The fabled offspring of a bull and a mare. --Locke.)

response 24 of 1013:

Mar 23 23:09 UTC 2003

Okay, I'll try to have a word in mind next time.