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aruba
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Six-letter word game, 7th edition
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Apr 21 05:27 UTC 1998 |
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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aruba
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response 1 of 1055:
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Apr 21 05:31 UTC 1998 |
OK, I am "it" since I guessed the last word, which was
karate 0 (lastword)
BTW if this item has a lot of responses by the time you get here, you may want
to skip to the bottom and only read the last 20 or so. To do that in
Picospan, hit 'q' at the "More" prompt, then enter "last" followed by "-20"
at the "Respond or Pass" prompt.
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albaugh
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response 2 of 1055:
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Apr 21 14:08 UTC 1998 |
streak
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larsn
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response 3 of 1055:
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Apr 21 18:16 UTC 1998 |
zealot
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kentn
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response 4 of 1055:
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Apr 21 23:47 UTC 1998 |
uneasy
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aruba
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response 5 of 1055:
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Apr 22 07:49 UTC 1998 |
streak 0 (albaugh)
zealot 1 (larsn)
uneasy 1 (kentn)
Whoa - Kent tries something new!
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albaugh
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response 6 of 1055:
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Apr 22 14:40 UTC 1998 |
teepee
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larsn
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response 7 of 1055:
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Apr 22 16:11 UTC 1998 |
tremor
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bikeman
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response 8 of 1055:
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Apr 22 18:08 UTC 1998 |
boring
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carson
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response 9 of 1055:
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Apr 22 21:09 UTC 1998 |
banana
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aruba
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response 10 of 1055:
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Apr 22 22:37 UTC 1998 |
teepee 0 (albaugh)
tremor 2 (larsn)
boring 0 (bikeman)
banana 0 (carson)
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kami
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response 11 of 1055:
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Apr 23 04:03 UTC 1998 |
filter
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larsn
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response 12 of 1055:
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Apr 23 16:20 UTC 1998 |
author
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albaugh
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response 13 of 1055:
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Apr 23 17:45 UTC 1998 |
indoor
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aruba
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response 14 of 1055:
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Apr 24 03:07 UTC 1998 |
filter 0 (kami)
author 1 (larsn)
indoor 2 (albaugh)
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kami
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response 15 of 1055:
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Apr 24 03:53 UTC 1998 |
potion
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aruba
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response 16 of 1055:
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Apr 24 06:06 UTC 1998 |
potion 2 (kami)
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albaugh
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response 17 of 1055:
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Apr 24 14:42 UTC 1998 |
gnomon Function: noun
Etymology: Latin, from Greek gnOmOn interpreter, pointer on a sundial,
from gignOskein Date: 1546
1 : an object that by the position or length of its shadow serves as an
indicator especially of the hour of the day: as a : the pin of a sundial
b : a column or shaft erected perpendicular to the horizon
2 : the remainder of a parallelogram after the removal of a similar
parallelogram containing one of its corners
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aruba
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response 18 of 1055:
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Apr 24 16:54 UTC 1998 |
gnomon 6 (albaugh)
Kevin's up!
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kentn
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response 19 of 1055:
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Apr 24 20:29 UTC 1998 |
unease
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carson
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response 20 of 1055:
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Apr 25 07:58 UTC 1998 |
icicle
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albaugh
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response 21 of 1055:
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Apr 28 16:50 UTC 1998 |
OK, I'm thinking of a new 6-letter word...
gnomon 0 (lastword)
unease 0 (kentn)
icicle 0 (carson)
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aruba
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response 22 of 1055:
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Apr 28 18:59 UTC 1998 |
banana
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bikeman
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response 23 of 1055:
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Apr 29 00:56 UTC 1998 |
boring
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aruba
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response 24 of 1055:
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Apr 29 05:23 UTC 1998 |
appear
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