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jdg
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Six letter word game
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Dec 8 03:16 UTC 1993 |
Mentioned in the "Letter Match" item:
51:184 Johann Hermann Remmers (remmers) Tue, Dec 7, 1993 (16:01)
We could escalate the game and think of 6-letter words.
. . . .
I'm thinking of a six letter word.
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rcurl
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response 1 of 1007:
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Dec 8 04:37 UTC 1993 |
New worlds to conquer!
worlds
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srw
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response 2 of 1007:
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Dec 8 06:42 UTC 1993 |
revive
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srw
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response 3 of 1007:
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Dec 8 06:48 UTC 1993 |
Take note that I have modified davel's awk script.
To produce accurate letter counting, run awk -f /u/srw/match.awk
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remmers
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response 4 of 1007:
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Dec 8 10:46 UTC 1993 |
adjust
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jdg
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response 5 of 1007:
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Dec 8 12:02 UTC 1993 |
I would use your match.awk, Steve, if permissions were set for me to use
it. I'll start out doing this by hand.
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jdg
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response 6 of 1007:
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Dec 8 12:03 UTC 1993 |
worlds 0 (rcurl)
revive 1 (srw)
adjust 0 (remers)
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rcurl
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response 7 of 1007:
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Dec 8 14:04 UTC 1993 |
I am intrigued by why a 6-letter versionn of Letter Match has reignited
interest in the game, which in its 5-letter version was getting.....
shall we say, "old"? This is not an inquiry into the merits of the two
versions, but into the psychology of leaving the old for the new. I am
also intrigued by the as-yet unknown consequences of going to 6 letters,
while my pattern of approaching 5 letters was more-or-less settled. Is
this the same phenomenon that led people to leave the comfort of their
ordinary lives, to venture into new frontiers, be they the "West", or
"Space"? [Be that as it may, someone should give the coup de grace to
item 51, 5-Letter Match. If someone would enter the correct word, I
will freeze the Item, even short of a full Millennium.] Oh yes.....
should
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remmers
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response 8 of 1007:
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Dec 8 18:31 UTC 1993 |
(Hey, if I *really* had wanted to leave the comfort of my ordinary
life, I'd have suggested going to FOUR-letter words...)
string
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jdg
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response 9 of 1007:
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Dec 8 22:05 UTC 1993 |
should 0 (rcurl)
string 0 (remmers)
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carl
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response 10 of 1007:
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Dec 8 22:47 UTC 1993 |
puzzle?
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rcurl
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response 11 of 1007:
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Dec 9 05:49 UTC 1993 |
obtain
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srw
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response 12 of 1007:
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Dec 9 06:45 UTC 1993 |
Re #5: Oops! The perms are fixed, sorry everyone.
/u/srw/match.awk can now be seen by all
Quoting liberally from davel's response 43:77
>For the sake of anyone who wants to use it, I've created an awk script
>to check for matches. (I did this after I made a mistake.) To run it,
>from a unix shell prompt enter
>awk -f /u/davel/match.awk
except now its's in /u/srw for the 6-letter version
>(and, of course, the output may be redirected to a file). It will
>prompt you for the match word (that's the one everyone's trying to
>guess) and then for a succession of words & usernames. It will generate
>lines of the general form we've been posting. Respond with a control-D
>or a single period to end entry.
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srw
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response 13 of 1007:
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Dec 9 07:20 UTC 1993 |
hawker
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jdg
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response 14 of 1007:
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Dec 10 02:37 UTC 1993 |
puzzle 1 (carl)
obtain 1 (rcurl)
hawker 1 (srw)
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rcurl
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response 15 of 1007:
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Dec 10 05:16 UTC 1993 |
damagedamage
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srw
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response 16 of 1007:
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Dec 10 06:46 UTC 1993 |
crunch
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jdg
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response 17 of 1007:
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Dec 10 13:19 UTC 1993 |
damage 2 (rcurl)
crunch 0 (srw)
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rcurl
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response 18 of 1007:
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Dec 10 14:17 UTC 1993 |
efface
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rcurl
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response 19 of 1007:
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Dec 11 06:12 UTC 1993 |
Now, why did damage repeat itself? I didn't write it twice, and didn't
have ECHO ON (;->).
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jdg
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response 20 of 1007:
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Dec 11 16:29 UTC 1993 |
efface 1 (rcurl)
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rcurl
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response 21 of 1007:
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Dec 13 14:10 UTC 1993 |
Steve, just because no one else wants to play, doesn't me we can't. Go
ahead - guess a word.
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srw
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response 22 of 1007:
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Dec 14 06:39 UTC 1993 |
nature
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rcurl
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response 23 of 1007:
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Dec 14 14:11 UTC 1993 |
faerie
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aa8ij
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response 24 of 1007:
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Dec 14 21:04 UTC 1993 |
sexton
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