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gelinas
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The seven letter word game, 5th edition
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Jan 3 22:51 UTC 2004 |
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 . They were written for the 5-
letter version of the game, but you can figure it out. 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 .
Some people also display all guesses so far when they score a new guess.
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gelinas
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response 1 of 1031:
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Jan 3 22:54 UTC 2004 |
octonal 0 (lastword)
And they're off!
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aruba
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response 2 of 1031:
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Jan 3 23:39 UTC 2004 |
octonal was a very good work, Kent. I'm still not sure I could use it in a
sentence, though...
referee
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gelinas
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response 3 of 1031:
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Jan 4 00:35 UTC 2004 |
referee 1 (aruba)
Sometimes, onelook would find it, and sometimes not. The first reference I
found was to fragrance, the second was to c8h17oh .
I finally decided to bite the bullet and let Kent define it. :)
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rcurl
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response 4 of 1031:
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Jan 4 03:45 UTC 2004 |
C8H17OH is octanol, not octonal. Neither is octanal, which would be C7H15CHO,
which is an aldehyde (octanaldehyde, in earlier nomenclature). There is no
chemical octonal. The name does show up on some web pages for items written
by dyslexic chemists.
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gelinas
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response 5 of 1031:
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Jan 4 03:53 UTC 2004 |
And read by same. :(
The first reference I had found was octanal, Octyl aldehyde, C8H160
(http://www.speclab.com/compound/c124130.htm). The second reference was
to octanols.
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rcurl
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response 6 of 1031:
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Jan 4 08:34 UTC 2004 |
"octyl aldehyde" is one of its names, but not the IUPAC name. The full
suite of names can be found at (say)
http://physchem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/OC/octyl_aldehyde.html
octanal is the IUPAC name. Of course, none of this is the least bit
relevant to the perfectly good word octonal.
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albaugh
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response 7 of 1031:
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Jan 5 22:33 UTC 2004 |
umpires
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aruba
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response 8 of 1031:
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Jan 5 23:17 UTC 2004 |
element
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gelinas
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response 9 of 1031:
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Jan 6 00:10 UTC 2004 |
umpires 0 (albaugh)
element 0 (aruba)
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naftee
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response 10 of 1031:
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Jan 6 01:59 UTC 2004 |
re 0 Isn't picospan good up to about 2000 responses? Or is it tradition to
restart items as such?
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gelinas
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response 11 of 1031:
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Jan 6 02:04 UTC 2004 |
Tradition.
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naftee
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response 12 of 1031:
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Jan 6 02:29 UTC 2004 |
Regardless, YAPP is god to like 2000 responses; dunno about picospan.
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albaugh
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response 13 of 1031:
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Jan 6 06:18 UTC 2004 |
So of the thousands of responses, some 2000 of them have a god, and its name
is YAPP, have I got that right? ;-)
Meanwhile:
nucleus
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gelinas
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response 14 of 1031:
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Jan 6 06:44 UTC 2004 |
nucleus 0 (albaugh)
BTW, the State of the Guess in is in ~gelinas/letter.match7
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aruba
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response 15 of 1031:
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Jan 6 15:19 UTC 2004 |
defeats
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gelinas
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response 16 of 1031:
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Jan 6 18:15 UTC 2004 |
defeats 1 (aruba)
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albaugh
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response 17 of 1031:
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Jan 6 21:38 UTC 2004 |
defense
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aruba
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response 18 of 1031:
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Jan 6 22:00 UTC 2004 |
berated
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naftee
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response 19 of 1031:
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Jan 6 22:11 UTC 2004 |
guesses
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gelinas
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response 20 of 1031:
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Jan 6 22:57 UTC 2004 |
defense 1 (albaugh)
berated 2 (aruba)
guesses 0 (naftee)
By the way, welcome to the game, naftee.
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naftee
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response 21 of 1031:
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Jan 6 23:57 UTC 2004 |
Thanks Joe!
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aruba
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response 22 of 1031:
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Jan 7 04:11 UTC 2004 |
believe
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gelinas
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response 23 of 1031:
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Jan 7 04:23 UTC 2004 |
believe 2 (aruba)
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albaugh
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response 24 of 1031:
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Jan 7 20:53 UTC 2004 |
holiday
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