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gelinas
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The seven letter word game, 6th edition
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Jan 11 04:41 UTC 2005 |
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 860:
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Jan 11 04:46 UTC 2005 |
A new item, and I'm thinking of a new word, a seven-letter word that is not
disship 0 (lastword)
The State of the Guess is in ~gelnas/letter.match7
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aruba
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response 2 of 860:
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Jan 11 04:52 UTC 2005 |
referee
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kentn
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response 3 of 860:
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Jan 11 12:32 UTC 2005 |
parties
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gelinas
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response 4 of 860:
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Jan 11 16:32 UTC 2005 |
referee 0 (aruba)
parties 0 (kentn)
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albaugh
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response 5 of 860:
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Jan 11 23:31 UTC 2005 |
girlier
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aruba
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response 6 of 860:
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Jan 12 03:13 UTC 2005 |
element
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gelinas
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response 7 of 860:
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Jan 12 05:15 UTC 2005 |
girlier 0 (albaugh)
element 0 (aruba)
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kentn
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response 8 of 860:
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Jan 12 13:10 UTC 2005 |
antonym
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albaugh
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response 9 of 860:
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Jan 12 18:42 UTC 2005 |
nemisis
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twenex
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response 10 of 860:
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Jan 12 19:36 UTC 2005 |
If I'm allowed to help, you might need an "e" there instead of the first "i",
Kevin.
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albaugh
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response 11 of 860:
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Jan 12 23:18 UTC 2005 |
Yes, thanks. I typed the word into MS-Word to see if it would "bark" with
the red squiggly underline indicating "misspelled", and when it didn't, I just
typed in the misspelling (how lazy). I now see that the reason that MS-Word
didn't bark is because it auto-corrected my entry, and so fast and subtley
that I didn't even notice.
nemesis
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gelinas
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response 12 of 860:
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Jan 13 04:52 UTC 2005 |
antonym 1 (kentn)
nemesis 0 (albaugh)
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juicy
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response 13 of 860:
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Jan 13 05:52 UTC 2005 |
quahaug
joe, you might want to have a look at whatever code generates your
summary file:
wc ~gelinas/letter.match7
259522 778566 6488050 /a/g/e/gelinas/letter.match7
and every one is the same:
disship 0 (lastword)
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aruba
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response 14 of 860:
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Jan 13 05:54 UTC 2005 |
Joe - your letter.match7 file is severely whacked (it's over 6 megabytes).
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gelinas
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response 15 of 860:
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Jan 13 10:49 UTC 2005 |
Thanks, folks. I don't know what happened, but it's fixed now.
disship 0 (lastword)
referee 0 (aruba)
parties 0 (kentn)
girlier 0 (albaugh)
element 0 (aruba)
antonym 1 (kentn)
nemesis 0 (albaugh)
quahaug 4 (juicy)
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kentn
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response 16 of 860:
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Jan 13 12:25 UTC 2005 |
outhaul
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albaugh
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response 17 of 860:
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Jan 13 21:14 UTC 2005 |
hauling
> I don't know what happened, but it's fixed now.
You must be in software development/support... ;-)
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aruba
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response 18 of 860:
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Jan 14 04:53 UTC 2005 |
quaffed
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kentn
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response 19 of 860:
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Jan 14 12:10 UTC 2005 |
That large file result looks like what happens when you get into a
loop with 'cat'. Not all 'cat's are created equal. Or maybe it was
something else (if so, I'd be curious to know what).
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gelinas
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response 20 of 860:
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Jan 18 03:58 UTC 2005 |
Yeah, I've done software development support. :(
I didn't change the program, before or after. However, I just reproduced the
problem, I think: I exceeded my disk quota. It occurs to me, though, that
I don't know if that excess was cause or effect.
outhaul 2 (kentn)
hauling 0 (albaugh)
quaffed 3 (aruba)
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gelinas
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response 21 of 860:
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Jan 18 04:21 UTC 2005 |
Effect. It happened again. :(
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albaugh
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response 22 of 860:
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Jan 19 00:33 UTC 2005 |
affects
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gelinas
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response 23 of 860:
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Jan 19 03:51 UTC 2005 |
Yes, it was a bug in cat and shell redirection. I fixed it.
affects 0 (albaugh)
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aruba
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response 24 of 860:
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Jan 20 04:14 UTC 2005 |
quantum
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